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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGoing to Meet the Man
James Baldwin · 235 pages
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of
Thirteen Stories
Eudora Welty · 243 pages
Here is a baker’s dozen of Welty’s very best, including: “The Wide Net,” in which a pregnant wife threatens to drown herself, despite fear of the water, and a communal dragging of the river turns into a celebratory fish-fry; “Petrified Man,” revealing the savagery of small-town gossip; “Powerhouse,” Welty’s prose answer to jazz improvisation and the emotional heart of the blues; and “Why I Live at
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
Carson McCullers · 152 pages
The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 268 pages
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 693 pages
Matryona's House And Other Stories
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 205 pages
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus · 213 pages
Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan · 250 pages
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human exper
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector · 672 pages
Bliss and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 279 pages
A collection of fourteen short anecdotes, Bliss & Other Stories captures the human spirit in a way few writers have ever dreamed of doing. Mansfield’s ability to string together words approaches poetry. Her stories are free from the over-dramatic writing style that many women writers have been criticized for using, and instead candidly touch on the human experience. Whether writing about the awake
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
Virginia Woolf · 70 pages
Trash: Stories
Dorothy Allison · 237 pages
First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of s
Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
W. Somerset Maugham · 478 pages
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 323 pages
A nasty anecdote -- The eternal husband -- Bobok -- The meek one -- The dream of a ridiculous man.
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Anton Chekhov
The steppe -- Panpipes -- The kiss -- Verochka -- The name-day party -- A dreary story -- Gusev -- The duel.
The Complete Stories
Bernard Malamud · 528 pages
Selected Short Stories
Rabindranath Tagore · 322 pages
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · 247 pages
Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virgi
Abel Sánchez and Other Stories
Miguel de Unamuno · 267 pages