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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Whore's Child and Other Stories
Richard Russo · 288 pages
Reasons to Live
Amy Hempel · 129 pages
This collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim.
The Collected Stories Of Grace Paley
Grace Paley · 392 pages
Contains all stories from "The little disturbances of man", "Enormous changes at the last minute" and "Later the same day".
Selected Stories
Robert Walser · 208 pages
Susan Sontag describes Walser as 'a good-humoured, sweet Beckett'. The more common comparison is to 'a comic Kafka'. Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.
The Collected Stories
Lorrie Moore · 704 pages
"The first one-volume collection of all of Lorrie Moore's short stories, with an introduction by Lauren Groff"-- This career-spanning collection of Moore's work showcases her talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. The stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls grappling with pain or disappointment. -- adapted from jacket
Bed
Tao Lin · 278 pages
Contains nine short stories by American author Tao Lin, which feature characters who struggle with laziness, boredom, exhaustion, and other emotions and situations.
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Penelope Lively · 208 pages
Fine Just the Way it Is
Annie Proulx · 240 pages
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy. About Author: Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping N
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Tobias Wolff · 175 pages
Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the off
White Walls: Collected Stories
Tatyana Tolstaya · 404 pages
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood · 288 pages
A collection of short stories which covers a wide range of human emotions.
The Dinner Party and Other Stories
Joshua Ferris · 251 pages
These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists
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.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 208 pages
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
Michael Cunningham · 134 pages
"Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the peop
Collected Short Stories: Volume 1
W. Somerset Maugham · 436 pages
This download only represents a small portion of Maugham's 91 short stories. There are a lot of great stories missing. Listing needs updating or correction.