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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Complete Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 499 pages
Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment.
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
Saadat Hasan Manto · 216 pages
Company K
William March · 183 pages
Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the U.S. Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself.
The Sebastopol Sketches
Leo Tolstoy
This collection comprises three short stories, all set in and around Sebastopol in Crimea, ‘Sebastopol in December’, ‘Sebastopol in May’ and ‘Sebastopol in August’. Collectively they pose a moving argument for the senselessness and brutality of war.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 236 pages
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the hatred that meaninglessly pits young men of the s
One Man's Initiation: 1917
John dos Passos · 134 pages
A short novel based in part on Dos Passos's own experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I.
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
Selected Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant · 326 pages
The Long Valley
John Steinbeck · 303 pages
A collection of interconnected short stories, all set in the Salinas Valley in California. The book includes classic Steinbeck stories such as ‘The Vigilante’ and ‘The Red Pony’.
Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan · 250 pages
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human exper
Stories
Anton Chekhov · 348 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.
The Continental Op
Dashiell Hammett · 288 pages
A collection of stories about Hammett's famous detective.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Yasunari Kawabata · 280 pages
Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Norbert Davis, John D. MacDonald, Benjamin Appel, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Craig, David Goodis, Ross Macdonald, W.R. Burnett, Mickey Spillane, Gil Brewer, Leigh Brackett, Helen Nielsen, Evan Hunter, Jim Thompson, H.A. DeRosso, Michael Kerr, James Re · 540 pages
The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction
Stephen Crane · 198 pages
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · 247 pages
Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virgi
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
The Outlaw Album: Stories
Daniel Woodrell · 176 pages
Twelve short stories depict people on the fringes of society, including an injured rapist who is cared for by a young girl and a husband who cruelly avenges the murder of his wife's pet.
The Pugilist at Rest
Thom Jones · 240 pages
14 stories grouped into four parts: the horrors of Vietnam; men at war with women; the difficulties of divorce, mental defects, and the ravages of cancer; and battling epilepsy and alcoholism.
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.