Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Novellas brings together eight novellas which can be used to supplement and enhance the materials in Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Drama and Law in Literature: Legal Themes in American Stories:1842-1917. A companion volume to these three anthologies is Law in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Law-Related Works. The intended audience for all four of these books includes students of the law, students of literature, lawyers and others participating in the legal profession, and the lay public.The eight works included in this volume are Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) by Herman Melville, Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass, Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, The Avenger by Thomas De Quincey, and The Death of Iván Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.