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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBurning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Angela Carter · 480 pages
From early reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of vampires and werewolves, to stunning snapshots of real-life outcasts and the glorious but tainted world of "the rich and famous," this complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories gathers together four published books - Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders - with her ear
Strange News from Another Star
Hermann Hesse · 122 pages
First Snow on Fuji
Yasunari Kawabata · 237 pages
A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf · 140 pages
Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf's shorter works of fiction. Foreword by Leonard Woolf.
Winter's Tales
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 265 pages
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason · 234 pages
Zachary Mason’s brilliant and beguiling debut novel, *The Lost Books of the Odyssey*, reimagines Homer’s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer’s original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to e
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector · 672 pages
Spirits Rebellious
Kahlil Gibran · 120 pages
"'Illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author.'"
Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories
Samuel R. Delany · 383 pages
"A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice, an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A while southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction - but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred and fifty years from now. Men and women have been given gills to labor under t
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Ivan Bunin · 224 pages
The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield
“'Let’s go into the garden,’” suggests Laura, the artistic young woman in “The Garden Party.” In this and the other short stories in the collection, Mansfield sketches wonderful portraits of human nature. Whether she’s discussing how roses are the only flowers people are sure to know the name of or showing a young woman coming of age, Mansfield crafts meaningful descriptions that have been compare
The Thirtieth Year: Stories
Ingeborg Bachmann · 187 pages
This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished German author who died in 1973. Reading these stories entails abandoning the terms of one's own comfort. The author's relentless vision demands that readers allows themselves to be hypnotised, taken over by her repetitive cadences and burning images of grief and loss. And yet, in the beauty of her images there is a tremendous affirmation
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
William H. Gass · 206 pages
Amok and Other Stories
Stefan Zweig · 130 pages
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa · 119 pages
A collection of short stories from Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of Japan's foremost stylists, a master of the modern idiom enriched by a deep knowledge of both the classics and the contemporary literature of Japan, China, and the West.
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.
The Love Object: Selected Stories
Edna O'Brien · 174 pages
The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In "A
The Fictions Of Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz · 304 pages
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.
First Love and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev · 298 pages
The Complete Stories
Truman Capote · 328 pages
"Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, Random House presents
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.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 253 pages
Providing a dramatic portrait of American manners and mores during the 1920s and 1930s, a collection of ten stories probes the false security of wealth, the emotional sterility fostered by technology, and the fragile nature of human existence.