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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 207 pages
In a German Pension
Katherine Mansfield · 112 pages
Bread soup was placed upon the table. Ah, said the Herr Rat, leaning upon the table as he peered into the tureen, that is what I need. My 'magen' has not been in order for several days. Bread soup, and just the right consistency. I am a good cook myself - he turned to me.
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Gogol · 271 pages
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 557 pages
There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collecti
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
Poor Folk and Other Early Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Shroud: Stories
Munshi Premchand · 79 pages
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka · 271 pages
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes 'Metamorphosis', his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; 'Meditation', a collection of his earlier studies; 'The Judgement', written in a single night of frenzied creativity; 'The Stoker', the first chapter of a novel s
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 480 pages
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Kate Chopin · 56 pages
From Louisiana's remote bayous to its gilded cities, five startling stories of awakening by one of fin-de-siécle America's most daring writers. --back cover
Bombay Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto · 288 pages
This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 271 pages
Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera · 242 pages
"In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 272 pages
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post--World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high school ge
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’.
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
Ivan Bunin · 224 pages