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Include books by the same authorThe Gospel Singer
Harry Crews · 248 pages
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson · 304 pages
A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath. Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famo
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
William Faulkner
Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands
Carson McCullers · 827 pages
Complete Novels and Stories
Kate Chopin · 1,071 pages
[At Fault][1] [Bayou Folk][2] [A Night in Acadie][3] [The Awakening][4] Uncollected stories -- [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65437W/At_Fault [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65441W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL65440W/A_Night_in_Acadie [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15841605W/The_Awakening
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 274 pages
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 30 pages
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's
Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright · 336 pages
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg · 202 pages
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 256 pages
The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb · 271 pages
Young John Harper guards his father's secret although many people try to find out the truth.
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 288 pages
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in
The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole · 162 pages
The first novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy Of Dunces. David is a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. From his porch, David can see the whole valley, including the neon Bible that lights up the sky, emblem of the God-fearing folk who snub his family because Poppa can't afford the church dues.
Hill William
Scott McClanahan · 222 pages
Hill William is a novel-in-stories chronicling the life of a young boy growing up in the mountains of today's West Virginia. Going no further than a mile from his home, the reader accompanies the narrator as he discovers the universe, as well as himself.
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 316 pages
"Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works - including such tim
Novels & Stories 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle/God Bless You, Mr Rosewater/Slaughterhouse-Five/Breakfast of Champions/Stories
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 851 pages
Presents a collection of four novels, four short stories, and other writings, including a speech and letters.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson · 303 pages
Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance.
A Walk on the Wild Side
Nelson Algren · 346 pages
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern
The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
Marquis de Sade · 330 pages
Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils)
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly · 384 pages
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte · 474 pages
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her ti