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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem · 330 pages
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
Joseph Conrad · 285 pages
Set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, "Heat of Darkness" tells the story of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr. Kurtz. It reveals Conrad at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophistication. "An Outpost of Progress" is also set in central Africa and offers a fiercely sardonic view of European imperialism. "Karain", with its Mala
The Queen of Spades
Alexander Pushkin · 254 pages
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories (Barnes Noble Classics Series)
George Eliot · 320 pages
Wessex Tales
Thomas Hardy · 286 pages
A small short story collection - only five stories originally, though two more were added later. The usual Hardy themes were followed; class distinctions, marriage, the relationships between men and women and how they were viewed by society, etc.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 174 pages
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Iv
The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction
Stephen Crane · 198 pages
Old New York
Edith Wharton · 310 pages
These novellas, set in the New York of the mid-1800s are united by Edith Wharton's compassionate and ironic vision. From Lewis Raycie, son of complacent plutocrats, who returns from his Grand Tour with Renaissance masterpieces only to be ridiculed and disinherited, to Lizzie Hazeldean, seen leaving a hotel with a man who is not her husband - honourable but unconventional people are sacrificed to t
The Bear, Old Man, and Spotted Horses: Three Famous Short Novels
William Faulkner
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood · 256 pages
The sequel to Mr. Norris Changes Trains, this is another semi-autobiographical account of Isherwood’s experiences in pre-war Berlin. The author leads the reader on a thoroughly entertaining tour through the seedier side of a particularly decadent time in that city’s history.
The Guest
Albert Camus · 32 pages
An Algerian schoolteacher develops a strange alliance with the Arab prisoner temporarily left in his charge, giving him the chance to select his own destiny.
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.
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,
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
Philip Roth · 298 pages
Dramatizations of aspects of American life seen through the comic or tragic predicament of American Jews.
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
Letters from My Windmill
Alphonse Daudet · 121 pages
"The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria"--P. [4] of cover.
The Virgin and the Gipsy & Other Stories
D.H. Lawrence · 240 pages
Billy Budd and Other Stories
Herman Melville · 385 pages
Tales of compelling and mysterious power by one of America's greatest and most complex writers. The works collected here were all written after Moby-Dick and Pierre. Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of those two books, Melville became obsessed with the difficulties in communicating his vision to readers. This sense of isolation, of a need to find a way to express one