18 books like The lady of the barge

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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand Brian W. Aldiss · 1960 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate From the back cover: THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE The moon is a nuclear bonfire, smouldering for 100,000 years after the war to end all wars. Robot slaves toil away at a starved planet, unaware that the masters they server are all but extinct. From the rim of space, a horde of invading primitives brings the messge of final doom to the most sublime civilization ever known. GALAXIES LIKE GRAINS… Shares: English Science fiction, English Short stories

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

Tales of space and time H. G. Wells · 1899 · ★ 3.7 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Tales of Space and Time collects together two novellas and three short stories by the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells. First published in 1899, this absorbing and stimulating read contains:The Crystal Egg (short story)The Star (short story)A Story of the Stone Age (novella)A Story of the Days To Come" (novella)The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story) Shares: English Science fiction, 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

A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab · 2015 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered--and where Kell was raised alongside… Shares: Magic -- Fiction, Magic

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Hank Davis · 2013 · ★ 3.4 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Trade Paperback Halloween-themed science fiction anthology. Featuring a mix of classic science fiction reprints where the scary stuff happens in space. THE UNIVERSE MAY NOT BE A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD. "The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown," the grand master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, once wrote. And the greatest unknown is the vast universe, shrouded in eternal cosmic night.… Shares: English Science fiction, Short Stories

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents H. G. Wells · 1895 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories, published in 1895. These fantasy and science fiction tales were all written between 1893 and 1895 and published in various periodicals. Shares: English Science fiction, Short Stories

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain · 1883 · ★ 3.9 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Shares: River life, Social life and customs

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

The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 792p · ≈ 26h · Moderate The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler -- the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years -- has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the… Shares: Magic -- Fiction, Magic

Swords and Deviltry Fritz Leiber · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The first of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. A collection of short stories. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Amulet Kazu Kibuishi · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi returns with his mysterious world full of new allies . . . and old enemies! Emily and Navin's mother is still in a coma from the arachnopod's poison, and there's only one place to find help: Kanalis, the bustling, beautiful city of waterfalls. But when Em, her brother, and Miskit and the rest of the robotic crew aboard the walking house reach the city, they… Shares: Amulets, Magic

Seven Gothic tales Isak Dinesen · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and… Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Amulet Kazu Kibuishi · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in fear. Emily is soon escorted to the Academy, where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, a group of the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, an… Shares: Amulets, Magic

Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway · 1927 · ★ 3.6 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A collection of short stories, including three or four regarded as among his best. The subjects are varied, with In Another Country about a member of the Ambulance Corps in Italy during WW1, The Killers a taut crime thriller about two hit-men and The Undefeated about a bullfighter in Spain. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Told After Supper Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1891 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This is a ghost story book. Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood. There is a good deal of similarity… Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

Under the deodars Rudyard Kipling · 1850 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Eight short stories of Rudyard Kipling: The Education of Otis Yeere At the Pit's Mouth A Wayside Comedy The Hill of Illusion A Second-rate Woman Only a Subaltern In the Matter of a Private The Enlightenments of Pagett. M. P. Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

A set of six Joseph Conrad · 1908 · ★ 3.8 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or four years of occasional work. The dates of their writing are far apart, their origins are various. None of them are connected directly with personal experiences. In all of them the facts are inherently true, by which I mean that they are not only possible but that they have actually happened. For instance, the last story in the… Shares: English Short stories, Short Stories

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