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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Good Man Is Hard to Find And Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 251 pages
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
Godforsaken Idaho
Shawn Vestal · 209 pages
Nine stories illuminate what it means to be Mormon and how faith serves to humanize, in a work that includes a seriocomic portrait of a young Joseph Smith.
I Want to Show You More
Jamie Quatro · 206 pages
A collection of short fiction offers a disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 208 pages
The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue
Will Eisner · 498 pages
This book joins three works by Will Eisner, all set around Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx (New York). (1) Contract with God (1978), comprising four independent brief stories. (2) A Life Force (1988), which follows events in Dropsie Avenue during the Great Depression years, and (3) Dropsie Avenue (1995), where the story follows the neighborhood from the 1800s (farming community) to high-end suburb,
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger · 202 pages
Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed in 1957 by Zooey. Both stories are early entries in a narrative series about the Glasses, a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York. In the first story, Franny, a young college girl, arrives in New Haven (Yale) to be with her boyfriend for a football weekend, where they go to a café. The story is essentially an account of
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike · 288 pages
"These stories 'are filled with gentle humor and irony. Youth, marriage, and family life provide most of the themes." Cincinnati Public Libr.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra · 142 pages
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
Leo Tolstoy · 200 pages
"In "What For?" a Polish family suffers in the aftermath of the insurrection of 1830 to 1831, and in its suffering Tolstoy expresses his outrage at a Russian autocracy whose disastrous policies in the nineteenth century sowed the seeds of revolt in the twentieth. "Divine and Human" takes place around the time of the assassination of the emperor Alexander II in 1881. A revolutionary terrorist, p
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Alifa Rifaat, 'lyf@ rf`t · 126 pages
Spirits Rebellious
Kahlil Gibran · 120 pages
"'Illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author.'"
The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales
Nikolai Leskov · 356 pages
"But you know how it is: when the devil calls you follow." The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage man for a Count, Ivan accidentally causes the death of a monk, which leads to his being ostracized by the local peasantry ... until the
Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 244 pages
The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud · 214 pages
This is Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony) they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of a
Rain and Other South Sea Stories
W. Somerset Maugham
Odessa Stories
Isaac Babel · 224 pages
'Everyone makes mistakes, even God.' In the original Odessa Stories collection published in 1931, Babel describes the life of the fictional Jewish mob boss Benya Krik - one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - and his gang in the ghetto of Moldavanka, around the time of the October Revolution. Praised by Maxim Gorky and considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russ
In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
Helen Maryles Shankman · 285 pages
"A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart nominee set in the German-occupied town of Wlodawa, Poland, where mythic tales of Jewish folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion"--
The Collected Stories Of Grace Paley
Grace Paley · 392 pages
Contains all stories from "The little disturbances of man", "Enormous changes at the last minute" and "Later the same day".