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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorJazz Age Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell · 427 pages
Presents a collection of short stories from early twentieth-century author F. Scott Fitzgerald including "The Ice Palace," "May Day," "The Four Fists," and more.
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood · 207 pages
Twilight Sleep
Edith Wharton · 372 pages
Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing - these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and empti
The Great Gatsby
Kathleen Parkinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald · 144 pages
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 251 pages
Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh · 370 pages
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Anita Loos · 251 pages
Lorelei Lee is just a little girl from Little Rock who takes the world by storm to teach its gentlemen that kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde in the flapper days of 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei and her
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist
Erich Kastner · 280 pages
The White Monkey (The Forsyte Saga)
John Galsworthy
Passing
Nella Larsen · 179 pages
First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem's elite creates a s
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 480 pages
Delta of Venus
Anais Nin · 260 pages
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of
In a German Pension
Katherine Mansfield · 112 pages
Bread soup was placed upon the table. Ah, said the Herr Rat, leaning upon the table as he peered into the tureen, that is what I need. My 'magen' has not been in order for several days. Bread soup, and just the right consistency. I am a good cook myself - he turned to me.
First Love and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev · 298 pages
The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun · 194 pages
"The Artificial Silk Girl is a portrait of the life of a young German woman at a time when the force of modernity in the Western world was at its most potent: with technology exploding and women freely entering the workforce, a new and frightening sense of existential individuality emerged. In the days before the Nazis came to power and suspended the development of German culture, Doris is a char
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Ivan Bunin · 224 pages
Grand Hotel
Vicki Baum · 309 pages
"A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era bestseller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Dr. Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk
Araby
James Joyce
A young boy in love with his friend’s sister promises to bring her back a gift from the Araby bazaar when he learns she cannot go. It is only later that night that the boy is able to make it to the bazaar and by the time he arrives, most of the stalls are closed and only late night activities are taking place between young women and men.
The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes · 248 pages
The Ways of White Folks is a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes, published in 1934.[1] Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in Carmel, California.[2] The collection, "marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a sardonic realism or, contextually: humorous racism,"[2] is among his best known works.[3] Like Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1899) and Wright's Uncle T
Short Stories From Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore · 258 pages