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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBilly 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
The Royal Game and Other Stories
Stefan Zweig · 268 pages
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett · 279 pages
"The story of an endearing unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice Brown for its "idyllic atmosphere of country life," Jewett's novel shows her intimate understanding of
The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories
Jack London · 368 pages
The Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo · 696 pages
Gilliat is an accomplished sailor, but due to a mysterious mother and a home locally regarded as haunted, his acceptance into Guernsey society is limited. That isolation doesn’t stop him from falling for Déruchette, the “neat and delicate and pretty” niece of local ferry-owner Mess Lethierry. When the ship is involved in a catastrophic incident, Déruchette announces that she will marry the man who
Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
Jonathan Swift
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
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway · 262 pages
This 1936 novel tells the story of an American fishing boat skipper who dabbles in a little smuggling to make ends meet. In need of money for his family the captain reluctantly becomes agrees to smuggle a group of Chinese immigrants from Cuba to Florida. This is Hemingway’s only novel to be set in the United States.
South Sea Tales
Robert Louis Stevenson · 289 pages
In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach of Falesa', the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with r
The Man Without A Country
Edward Everett Hale · 71 pages
A young naval officer, during his trial by court martial, expressed with an oath that he might never hear of the United States again. The court sentenced him to have his wish fulfilled.
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem · 330 pages
The Cossacks and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy · 480 pages
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
Evelyn Waugh · 216 pages
Gilbert Pinfold, an English writer suffering from a surfeit of sleeping pills, recounts his hallucinatory experiences while embarked on a boat for Ceylon.
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Edith Wharton · 256 pages
Contains: [Ethan Frome](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98501W/Ethan_Frome) The touchstone ; The last asset ; Xingu ; The other two.
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk · 536 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial and it soon becomes clear that few people will emerge from the trial with any credit.
The Best Short Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 352 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.