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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorUnder the Banyan Tree and Other Stories
R.K. Narayan · 208 pages
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Seven Japanese Tales
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · 298 pages
Collected Stories
Tennessee Williams · 574 pages
Matryona's House And Other Stories
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 205 pages
Thirteen Stories
Eudora Welty · 243 pages
Here is a baker’s dozen of Welty’s very best, including: “The Wide Net,” in which a pregnant wife threatens to drown herself, despite fear of the water, and a communal dragging of the river turns into a celebratory fish-fry; “Petrified Man,” revealing the savagery of small-town gossip; “Powerhouse,” Welty’s prose answer to jazz improvisation and the emotional heart of the blues; and “Why I Live at
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus · 213 pages
Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin · 235 pages
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 693 pages
Brodie's Report
Jorge Luis Borges · 137 pages
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including "Unworthy" and "The Other Duel," are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with su
The Complete Stories
Bernard Malamud · 528 pages
Selected Short Stories
Rabindranath Tagore · 322 pages
Dimanche and Other Stories
Irene Nemirovsky
Collected Stories
Wallace Stegner · 525 pages
Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
Virginia Woolf · 70 pages
Complete Stories
Clarice Lispector · 672 pages
Bliss and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 279 pages
A collection of fourteen short anecdotes, Bliss & Other Stories captures the human spirit in a way few writers have ever dreamed of doing. Mansfield’s ability to string together words approaches poetry. Her stories are free from the over-dramatic writing style that many women writers have been criticized for using, and instead candidly touch on the human experience. Whether writing about the awake
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.
Collected Stories: Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café
Carson McCullers
The Best Short Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 352 pages
Little Birds
Anais Nin · 153 pages
Thirteen explorations of sexual variants feature rivals for the same lover, husbands with exotic tastes and frustrated wives, a celebrated prostitute, a sixteen-year-old waif striving to surpass her mother, and other adventurers.