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Include books by the same author"Sweat"
Zora Neale Hurston · 216 pages
Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. In "Sweat" Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual conscio
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 256 pages
The Awakening and Selected Stories
Kate Chopin, Alyssa Harad · 296 pages
Love in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang · 321 pages
"Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these stories combine a contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with a lyricism that ech
To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories (Collected Stories, Vol. 1)
Doris Lessing · 400 pages
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
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 Jury Of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell · 48 pages
Two women uncover the truth in a rural murder investigation.
In Love Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker · 147 pages
The Quilt & Other Stories
Ismat Chughtai · 225 pages
The Company She Keeps
Mary McCarthy · 304 pages
Six episodes that tell of the experiences of a girl, in her twenties and on her own in New York, fuse into a portrait of an individual and a revelation of a distinct social milieu.
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Angela Carter · 480 pages
From early reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of vampires and werewolves, to stunning snapshots of real-life outcasts and the glorious but tainted world of "the rich and famous," this complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories gathers together four published books - Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders - with her ear
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott · 150 pages
Though best known for the lighthearted look at family life and sisterly relationships in Little Women, some of Louisa May Alcott's work touched on more socially significant themes. Behind a Mask, Or a Woman's Power is one of several works that Alcott penned under a pseudonym. Perhaps freed by the anonymity this guise granted, she delves deeply into issues of gender, family, and social class in thi
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Arranged Marriage: Stories
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 320 pages
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
Elissa Schappell · 304 pages
"From the acclaimed author of Use Me, eight provocative and darkly funny linked stories that explore the commonly shared, but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers, mapping America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day"--
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood · 243 pages
A selection of Atwood's short fiction. With flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition.
Difficult Women
Roxane Gay · 272 pages
"Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege an
They say I'm a monkey
Djenar Maesa Ayu · 125 pages
Consider Her Ways and Others
John Wyndham · 192 pages
*Consider Her Ways* Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own. *Odd* is a tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused, and then learns the reasons why. *Stitch in Time* concerns an elderly lady reflecting on
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Alifa Rifaat, 'lyf@ rf`t · 126 pages
Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denise D. Knight · 353 pages
Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez · 208 pages
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories
Margaret Drabble · 256 pages
A single-volume compilation of the author's previously uncollected short works offers insight into her use of irony, female friendships, and personal passions and is complemented by an introduction that places her works in a context of her life and novels.