18 books like The Faulkner Reader

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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales Chris Baldick · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Part 1 Beginnings: "Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland "The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous "Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis" "The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous "The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous "The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden. Part 2 The 19th… Shares: Gentleman's Agreements, Nonlinear Narrative, Tradition, Allegory

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead Jeffrey Eugenides · 2008 · ★ 3.7 · 587p · ≈ 19h · Moderate A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago. Shares: Gentleman's Agreements, Nonlinear Narrative, Tradition, Allegory

Fiction R. S. Gwynn · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The dead / James Joyce -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall -- A rose for Emily / William… Shares: Gentleman's Agreements, Nonlinear Narrative, Tradition, Allegory

The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised Douglas Angus · 1974 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Tell-tale Heart/ Edgar Allan Poe The jewels / Guy de Maupassant Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov The tree of knowledge / Henry James A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway Youth / Joseph Conrad The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Bliss / Katherine Mansfield The dead / James Joyce Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson The story of my dovecot / Isaac… Shares: Gentleman's Agreements, Nonlinear Narrative, Tradition, Allegory

Illusion Frank E. Peretti · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate A grieving husband encounters a teen identical to his dead wife-- in face, name, and magical skills. Shares: Husband and wife, Death

This Year It Will Be Different Maeve Binchy · 1996 · ★ 3.6 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life; instead of Christmas homilies, she offers truth; and… Shares: Change, Short Stories

Van Bibber and Others Richard Harding Davis · 1892 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging In "Van Bibber and Others," Richard Harding Davis crafts a collection of short stories that encapsulate the spirited social dynamics of the turn of the 20th century. With his characteristic wit and keen observational prowess, Davis explores themes of class distinction, romance, and the complexities of human interaction within the vibrant backdrop of New York City. His prose is characterized by a… Shares: Social life and customs, Short Stories

Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang · 2002 · ★ 4.3 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now,… Shares: Change, Short Stories

A Twist in the Tale Jeffrey Archer · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories, A Twist in the Tale, will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget. No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer… Shares: Short Stories

Yamatonadeshiko Shiehihenge Tomoko Hayakawa · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The four hunks have almost despaired of turning Sunako into a lady when a toddler named Rin shows up and starts calling Ranmaru "Daddy." Ranmaru denies being his father, but Sunako softens up around the boy. Could he be what finally transforms her? Shares: Recluses, Social life and customs

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: Social life and customs, Short Stories

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: Social life and customs, Short Stories

Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving · 1867 · 99p · ≈ 3h · Challenging In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world. Shares: Change, Short Stories

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin · 1965 · ★ 4.4 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate African-American fiction Shares: African Americans, Social life and customs, Short Stories

In love & trouble Alice Walker · 1973 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The desires and fears of the American black woman are explored with compassion and understanding in these thirteen short stories. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. Dating back to the early 1970s and 1980s, respectively, these short stories cover the Pulitzer… Shares: African Americans, Social life and customs

Upstate Kalisha Buckhanon · 2004 · ★ 4.1 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Harlem, 1985. Antonio has been seeing Natasha for a while now. Their relationship is full of the drama, the passion and the intensity of every first love affair. But their story is different. For Antonio is on trial for the murder of his father. This is Natasha and Antonio's story, one struggling to cope with life in jail, the other with life outside. Extraordinarily vivid and honest, their… Shares: African Americans, Death

Three Lives Gertrude Stein · 1909 · ★ 3.1 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This… Shares: African Americans, Short Stories

In black and white Rudyard Kipling · 1880 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Tales of native life in India, in Oriental style. Shares: Short Stories

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