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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBabylon 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.
Almost Famous Women: Stories
Megan Mayhew Bergman · 281 pages
A collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman resurrects these women, lets them live in the reader's imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity--she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter
Black Tickets: Stories
Jayne Anne Phillips · 265 pages
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
William H. Gass · 206 pages
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.
First Love and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev · 298 pages
In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
Helen Maryles Shankman · 285 pages
"A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart nominee set in the German-occupied town of Wlodawa, Poland, where mythic tales of Jewish folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion"--
White Walls: Collected Stories
Tatyana Tolstaya · 404 pages
Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson · 150 pages
Denis Johnson chronicles the wanderings of a young man as he struggles with addictions to drugs and alcohol. Separated into eleven stories, the young man eventually snaps out of his downward spiral and checks into rehab.
The Tent
Margaret Atwood · 158 pages
The Tent is a book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2006. Although classified with Atwood’s short fiction, The Tent has been characterized as an “experimental” collection of “fictional essays" or “mini-fictions.” The work also incorporates line drawings by Atwood. Source: [Wikipedia][1] [1]: https://g.co/kgs/6Gge4p
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.
Battleborn
Claire Vaye Watkins · 288 pages
A debut collection of ten short works reimagines the mythology of the American West and includes stories of a foreigner's arrival at a prostitution ranch, a hermit's attempt to rescue an abused teen, and a woman's role in a friend's degrading Vegas encounter.
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Ivan Bunin · 224 pages
The Unfinished World: And Other Stories
Amber Sparks · 233 pages
"Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com.
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind
David Guterson · 164 pages
Publisher's description: Like his novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally piercing short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In these vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. With prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, this is a collection of power.
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
Saints and Sinners
Edna O'Brien · 245 pages
Collects short stories depicting restless, searching people set in Dublin, London, and New York.