18 books like Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary

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The experience of literature Lionel Trilling · 1967 · ★ 4.0 · 1320p · ≈ 44h · Challenging Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo;… Shares Copyists, 20th century English fiction, Securities industry, Christian
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Forms of the Novella David H. Richter · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Shares Christmas fiction, 20th century English fiction, Christmas, Christian Fiction with this book. Shares Christmas fiction, 20th century English fiction, Christmas, Christian Fiction
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Piazza Tales Herman Melville · 1856 · ★ 3.5 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology with this book. Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology
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Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville · 1966 · ★ 3.9 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by… Shares Copyists, Securities industry, Young men, Psychology
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Christian short stories Mark Booth · 1984 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Christian Fiction, Short Stories with this book.
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The little bookroom Eleanor Farjeon · 1955 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer. Shares Short Stories, Children's fiction
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The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition Ann Charters · 2015 · 1775p · ≈ 59h · Moderate Part One: Stories -- Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace -- Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven -- Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance -- Sherwood Anderson / Hands -- Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings -- Isaac Babel / My First Goose -- James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson -- Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat… Shares Christian Fiction, Psychology, Classic Literature, Short Stories
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The Modern Tradition - Second Edition Daniel F. Howard · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 646p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Shares Christmas fiction, 20th century English fiction, Christmas, Christian Fiction with this book.
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The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition Ann Charters · 1991 · ★ 2.0 · 1607p · ≈ 53h · Challenging Dead men's path/Achebe Oasis/Adams Kugelmass episode/Allen Death in the woods ; Hands/Anderson Happy endings/Atwood My first goose/Babel Sonny's blues/Baldwin Hammer man/Bambara Lost in the funhouse/Barth School/Barthelme Burning house/Beattie An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/Bierce Like a bad dream/Böll Garden of forking paths/Borges This way for the gas, ladies and… Shares Christian Fiction, Psychology, Classic Literature, Short Stories
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The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition Ann Charters · 2010 · 1163p · ≈ 38h · Moderate Collection contains: Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home:… Shares Christian Fiction, Psychology, Classic Literature, Short Stories
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Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing · 1800 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England. Shares Short Stories, Children's fiction
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The Dead James Joyce · 1965 · ★ 4.0 · 71p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. ---------- Also contained in: - Best Short Stories of the Modern Age - Dubliners - Dubliners / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Essential James Joyce - Fiction 100 -… Shares Christmas fiction, 20th century English fiction, Christmas, Christian Fiction
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Jotham's Journey Arnold Ytreeide · 1997 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In this widely popular, exciting story for the advent season, readers follow ten-year-old Jotham across Israel as he searches for his family. Though he faces thieves, robbers, and kidnappers, Jotham also encounters the wise men, shepherds, and innkeepers until at last he finds his way to the Savior born in Bethlehem. Shares Christian, Christmas, Christian Fiction
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Within the tides Joseph Conrad · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. Shares Classic Literature, Short Stories
Somehow
Somehow Anne Lamott · 2024 · ★ 3.9 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to… Shares Psychology
Voices
Voices Staroba · 2015 Shares Psychology with this book.
Invoke the Goddess
Invoke the Goddess Kala Trobe · 2019 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Psychology with this book.
Wanting
Wanting Luke Burgis · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate * Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg's "52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending" * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year *A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a… Shares Psychology

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