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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorJazz Age Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell · 427 pages
Presents a collection of short stories from early twentieth-century author F. Scott Fitzgerald including "The Ice Palace," "May Day," "The Four Fists," and more.
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood · 207 pages
The Great Gatsby
Kathleen Parkinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald · 144 pages
Roman Fever and Other Stories
Edith Wharton · 238 pages
Contains: Roman fever -- Xingu -- The other two -- Souls belated -- The angel at the grave -- The last asset -- After Holbein -- Autres temps.
The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun · 194 pages
"The Artificial Silk Girl is a portrait of the life of a young German woman at a time when the force of modernity in the Western world was at its most potent: with technology exploding and women freely entering the workforce, a new and frightening sense of existential individuality emerged. In the days before the Nazis came to power and suspended the development of German culture, Doris is a char
Delta of Venus
Anais Nin · 260 pages
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Anita Loos · 251 pages
Lorelei Lee is just a little girl from Little Rock who takes the world by storm to teach its gentlemen that kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde in the flapper days of 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei and her
A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury
Kerry Greenwood, Beth Norling · 265 pages
The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamant garters - is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This all-new collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including lists of Phryne's favourite designers, decadent cocktail recipes and other ephemera - is a gorgeously collectable, must-have treat for all Phryne fans. Lavi
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist
Erich Kastner · 280 pages
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
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh · 254 pages
Waugh’s second novel, published in 1930, is a satire of upper class modern society, savagely parodying the so-called ‘Bright Young Things’ of the nineteen twenties.
Quicksand and Passing
Nella Larsen · 246 pages
Two novels of 1920s Harlem describe Helga Crane's search for freedom and personal expression, and Irene's friendship with Clare, who attempts to pass for white.
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara · 301 pages
O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country
Prague Tales
Jan Neruda, Michael Henry Heim · 454 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.
Selected Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant · 326 pages
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 251 pages
Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes · 248 pages
The Ways of White Folks is a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes, published in 1934.[1] Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in Carmel, California.[2] The collection, "marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a sardonic realism or, contextually: humorous racism,"[2] is among his best known works.[3] Like Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1899) and Wright's Uncle T
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
Lu Xun · 448 pages
Lu Xun is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, an is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This new translation presents some of Lu Xun's best known short stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q' and 'Diary of a Madman'.
The Rocking Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence · 64 pages
A boy growing up in a household where there is no love and no luck but always a shortage of money develops an uncanny ability to pick horse-race winners while furiously riding his wooden rocking-horse.
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 269 pages
The death of Flanner O'Connor at thirty-nine marked the loss of one of America's most gifted contemporary writers at the height of her powers. This volume is the collection on which she was working at the time of her death. Each of the nine stores carries her highly individual stamp, and could have been writte by no one else. Everything That Rises Must Converge is the most worth memorial that Flan
Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov · 467 pages
Called the greatest of short story writers, Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation