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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Model World and Other Stories
Michael Chabon · 207 pages
A collection of short stories includes "A Model World", "Millionaires", and a series of tales about a young boy experiencing the pain of his parents' imminent divorce.
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
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 110 pages
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for he
A Tidewater Morning
William Styron · 160 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.
The Love Object: Selected Stories
Edna O'Brien · 174 pages
The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In "A
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.
First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories
Harold Brodkey · 223 pages
In First Love and Other Sorrows, the young Brodkey chronicles the world of the educated and affluent middle class of the 1950s, at leisure and in love. He establishes themes that would appear throughout his career: the painful uncertainties of childhood and the halting intimacies of social life. This edition includes three never-before-collected stories, to complete an anthology of rare tenderness
Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
Ruskin Bond · 164 pages
The Fictions Of Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz · 304 pages
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
Alice Munro · 224 pages
A Winter Book
Tove Jansson · 208 pages
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger · 208 pages
First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan · 248 pages
Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula Hegi · 187 pages
"From an award winning author comes a deeply personal and powerful account of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in a small town in Germany in the 1950s. Hanna conjours up unforgettably the events of her youth: her magical bond to her unconventional mother; her friendship with an illegitmate son of an American GI; and the lessons in local lore that are served with tea and innuendo by the town's
The News from Dublin: Stories
Colm Tóibín · 304 pages
At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid · 82 pages
"Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape-
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Norman Maclean · 234 pages
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz · 240 pages
This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
Truman Capote · 45 pages
*A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.* Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one ol
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
William H. Gass · 206 pages
White Walls: Collected Stories
Tatyana Tolstaya · 404 pages
Machineries of Joy
Ray Bradbury · 239 pages
"The Machineries of Joy" is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, known for his distinctive blend of science fiction and fantasy. The book features a diverse range of tales, from the whimsical to the haunting, all infused with Bradbury's characteristic poetic prose. The stories explore themes such as the impact of technology on humanity, the passage of time, and the power of imagination.