18 books like Bliss, and other stories

What to read after Bliss, and other stories — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

A good man is hard to find Flannery O'Connor · 1955 · ★ 3.8 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories. Shares: Women authors, English Short stories, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The Wind's Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin · 1975 · ★ 4.1 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is a collection containing, among other stories, the short story that started the Earthsea series." Along with "The Rule of Names," the story establishes the world and characters of Earthsea. First published in 1964 in an issue of Fantastic, the story can be found in a handful of anthologies but can be hard to lay hands on. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The years Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Challenging A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's The Years is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons and… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

A Quiver Full of Arrows Jeffrey Archer · 1980 · ★ 3.9 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate | alt = A Quiver Full of Arrows first edition cover image Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

Cathedral Raymond Carver · 1983 · ★ 4.3 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption. Shares: Manners and customs, English literature, Short Stories

Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo · 2019 · ★ 4.4 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible. Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

Flappers and Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes the stories "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" and "The Four Fists." Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

When God Laughs and Other Short Stories Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.0 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Released in 1911, When God Laughs, and Other Stories is the eleventh collection of short stories by Jack London. In contrast with most of his other work that had been released at the time, When God Laughs is set in Polynesia. The book consists of twelve short stories that range from humorous to shocking. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

聊齋誌異 Pu Songling · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Various stories Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope · 1861 · ★ 4.4 · 540p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, English literature, Social life and customs

The gold coast Nelson DeMille · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy · 1874 · ★ 3.9 · 491p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues,… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Jane Austen Louise Ross · 1995 · ★ 5.0 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Here, republished for the first time, is the first edition text of Jane Austen's much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the first editions are unique documents in the history of English literature, Volume 2 of 3 of Sense and Sensibility Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The travelling bachelor James Fenimore Cooper · 1828 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuberant chant of praise for American representative democracy, encapsulating the utopian vision that… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

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