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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Melancholy of Mechagirl
Catherynne M. Valente · 261 pages
"This is Catherynne M. Valente's collection of ... stories and poems with a connection to Japan"--Introduction p. 7.
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Neil Gaiman · 352 pages
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a Doctor Who story written for the series' fiftieth anniversary (Nothing o'clock). There is also "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of his novel American Gods. The collection explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulner
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Dylan Thomas · 160 pages
A series of autobiographical sketches show Thomas' great humor, exuberance and verbal magic.
The Rediscovery of Man
Cordwainer Smith · 400 pages
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
William L. Hedges · 358 pages
Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic
Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino · 153 pages
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?"--Publisher description.
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Bruno Schulz · 178 pages
Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
Hermann Hesse · 213 pages
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving · 70 pages
1891 edition,g.p.putnam,a legendof the kaatskill mountains, by washington irving, fiction
A Winter Book
Tove Jansson · 208 pages
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and
A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde · 206 pages
Collection of Wilde Short stories, written before his plays, and well before the trial. H. L. Mencken essay praises Wilde's art, damns his lack of honor and arrogance that let to his trial and his ruin. Interesting evaluation of Wilde as an artist of great force, and at the same time, weakness. H. L. Mencken reminds us that Wilde was "news" and news that had stayed "news". Kutcher's beautiful i
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
Truman Capote · 45 pages
*A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.* Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one ol
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 110 pages
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for he
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Norman Maclean · 234 pages
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
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.
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin · 207 pages
This collection of mainstream stories, which have been published in such distinguished magazines as The New Yorker, Harper's, Omni, and Playboy, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. In her own words: "These stories span twelve years of writing, from the early eighties to the mid-nineties. It took them a long time to gather themselves into a whole, with the sh
Wayside School Is Falling Down
Louis Sachar · 179 pages
"Watch Closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window. The children watched it fall thirty floors and smash against the sidewalk. "See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity! I've been trying to teach you about gravity, but the computer showed you a lot quicker!" That's the way things happen a
The Inheritance
Robin Hobb, Megan Lindholm · 408 pages
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
R.A. Lafferty · 318 pages
"Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: a man who found one day that he knew absolutely everyone in the world; a race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements; a speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night; a friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God ... In all, twenty-one immensely enjoyabl