answer:Wm Faulkner’s THE BEAR is a short novel, and certainly considered one of the masterpieces of Amer. Lit. Henry James, Edith Wharton, Nathanael West, John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty also wrote shortish fiction. Prob. the stories of Flannery O’Connor are too short and her novels too long, but she is one weird and fascinating master of the language. Pagination depends on font size….