18 books like The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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The Four Million O. Henry · 1906 · ★ 4.0 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. The stories include; Tobin's Palm *… Shares American Short stories, Manners and customs, Social life 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 American Short stories, Manners and customs, Short Stories

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.5 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories with this book.

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "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

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate 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

Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Light "Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. In the Fitzgerald canon, it is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster," as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The… Shares American Short stories, Short Stories

Waifs and Strays O. Henry · 1917 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" from The Essential Bordertown and "There's No Such Thing," which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, "Sisters," tells of precocious… Shares American Short stories, Short Stories

South Sea Tales Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was… Shares American Short stories, Short Stories

White Nights

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories, History

Thurber Carnival James Thurber · 1940 · ★ 4.2 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker,… Shares Drama, Short Stories, History

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, History

Whirligigs O. Henry · 1910 · ★ 3.7 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate O. Henry's short, simple stories are noted for their careful plotting, ironic coincidences, and surprise endings. Contents: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; "Girl"; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and their Romance; The Whirligig of… Shares American Short stories, Short Stories

The women on the wall Wallace Stegner · 1950 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories with this book.

The American Short Story [59 stories] Thomas K. Parkes · 1994 · 1003p · ≈ 33h · Challenging Rip Van Winkle ; The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher ; The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- The man without a country / Edward Everett Hale -- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton -- The celebrated jumping from of Calaveras… Shares American Short stories, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver · 1981 · ★ 4.0 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. Shares American Short stories, Manners and customs, Short Stories

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 American Short stories, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

Van Bibber and Others Richard Harding Davis · 1892 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Social life and customs, Short Stories with this book.

The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte · 1889 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Manners and customs, Short Stories with this book.

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