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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov · 160 pages
In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn't end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric light
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of a poor young girl trying to sell matches on a bitterly cold winter night. As she lights her matches one by one for warmth, each small flame reveals comforting visions that momentarily lift her from the harshness of her world. Through these brief illuminations, the story contrasts the cruelty of her reality with the beauty of her hopes and dreams
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Edith Wharton · 256 pages
Contains: [Ethan Frome](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98501W/Ethan_Frome) The touchstone ; The last asset ; Xingu ; The other two.
Little Bear
Else Holmelund Minarik · 63 pages
Celebrate the timeless warmth of a mother's love with the very first ever I Can Read book! Meet Little Bear, a friend to millions of children. And meet Mother Bear, who is there whenever Little Bear needs her. When it is cold and snowy outside, she finds just the right outfit for Little Bear to play in. When he goes to the moon, she has a hot lunch waiting for him on his return. And, of course
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Arthur Conan Doyle · 387 pages
"Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned his attention to a very different hero. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army - recklessly brave, engagingly open-hearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. Conan Doyle's wonderful stories about the Brigadier - all of which are collected here - are as funny as they
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
James De Mille · 289 pages
Four men aboard a boat find the titular strange manuscript in a cylindar floating in the sea. It turns out to be the story of Adam More, a sailor stranded in a savage hidden country in Antarctica. In this "nation" are everything from cannibals to kings and the bizarre citizens love death and poverty as other nations love life and prosperity. Can Adam escape...?
The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis · 121 pages
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is the enchanting first installment in C.S. Lewis's timeless fantasy series, "The Chronicles of Narnia." The story unfolds with the discovery of a magical world beyond the back of a wardrobe, where four siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—stumble upon the wondrous land of Narnia. In Narnia, the land is under the oppressive rule of the White Witch
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 607 pages
The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning of human suffering under extreme conditions. ---------- Contains: - [Worst Journey in the World
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Ian Fleming · 299 pages
In his Alpine base, Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger, James Bond is about to marry Teresa di Vicenzo, the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerland. Bond's marriage and Blofeld's schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire and high-explosives from which neither man emerges the victor.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis · 178 pages
A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. Four adventurous siblings--Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie-- step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and e
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Emmuska Orczy · 242 pages
The Second Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling · 176 pages
Not so much a sequel as a small collection of short stories, only five of which feature Mowgli and friends. The best known of the stories is 'How Fear Came', which tells the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror
H.P. Lovecraft · 560 pages
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George · 170 pages
Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home, hoping to reach San Francisco and her pen pal. But she becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no idea which is the way to safety. Now, more than ever, she must look har
Conan (Book 1)
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter · 221 pages
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 174 pages
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Iv
The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S.Lewis · 154 pages
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of four adventurous children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who have been evacuated to the English countryside in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. Narnia is a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs