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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBabylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 253 pages
Providing a dramatic portrait of American manners and mores during the 1920s and 1930s, a collection of ten stories probes the false security of wealth, the emotional sterility fostered by technology, and the fragile nature of human existence.
Little Birds
Anais Nin · 153 pages
Thirteen explorations of sexual variants feature rivals for the same lover, husbands with exotic tastes and frustrated wives, a celebrated prostitute, a sixteen-year-old waif striving to surpass her mother, and other adventurers.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe · 325 pages
Letters from My Windmill
Alphonse Daudet · 121 pages
"The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria"--P. [4] of cover.
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant, Gary Kelley · 47 pages
After devoting their energies and income for ten years to replacing a borrowed diamond necklace which they have lost, a woman and her husband learn the irony of their efforts.
Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils)
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly · 384 pages
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Emmuska Orczy · 242 pages
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Anna Gavalda · 352 pages
"With arresting naturalism and a lively variety of perspectives, Gavalda writes simply of human beings longing to connect. Gavalda, "a gifted literary stylist" (Vogue), has a knack for capturing our inner as well as our outer dialogues with perfect pitch, evoking reflection, pain, and laughter in equal measure. The stories in I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere are as wicked as they are i
A Paris Affair
Tatiana de Rosnay · 114 pages
An irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires -- a portrait of the most forbidden of loves, in many different shades.
The Man Who Walked Through Walls
Marcel Ayme · 228 pages
Marcel Aym's most celebrated tale provides the title of this collection of ten short stories. The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul is able to penetrate walls, but never exploits his gift until his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate measures. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime?
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.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 208 pages
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
Alexander Pushkin · 209 pages
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.
The Blood of Others
Simone de Beauvoir · 240 pages
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
Saki, Hector Hugh Munro · 512 pages
La gallina degollada y otros cuentos: Editorial Fuego Azul
Horacio Quiroga · 98 pages