Seven Short Novel Masterpieces Author:Leo Hamalian and Edmond L. Volpe, editors Seven Immortals: Critics have called the short novel the most exciting, the most rewarding of the fictional art forms. Here, in one compact volume, are seven of the greatest, by seven of the finest writers who ever lived. — DAUGHTERS OF THE VICAR by D. H. Lawrence — THE METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka — CANDIDE by Voltaire — THE LESSON OF THE MASTER by... more » Henry James