15 Best fiction books like Rumpole and the younger generation by John Mortimer

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Rumpole and the younger generation

By: John Mortimer

4.06

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

The first-ever Rumpole story, introducing many of the characters and setting the scene for the whol…

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1. Four Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Four essays from Michel de Montaigne's "The Complete Essays." read more

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2. The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince book and John Mortimer's Rumpole and the younger generation

  • short stories
  • fiction
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

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3. The Genius and Other Stories

By: Frank O'Connor

3.86

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

A collection of four of O'Connor's short stories, often written from the point of view of a child o… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Scale

By: Will Self

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'Some people lose their sense of proportion; I've lost my sense of scale.' The short story 'Scale' … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. A Taste of Life and Other Stories

By: Sara Paretsky

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

This is a collection of three short stories. The title story "A Taste of Life" tells the gruesome t… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Big Blonde and Other Stories

By: Dorothy Parker

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

9. Matilda's England

By: William Trevor

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

These three short stories add up to a whole. Set before, during and after World War II, they form a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. A Model and Other Stories

By: Anaïs Nin

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Seven erotic tales of sensuous sexual fantasy. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

11. A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more

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12. Bon voyage Mr. President and other stories

By: Gabriel García Márquez

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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13. The Portobello Road and Other Stories

By: Muriel Spark

3.58

Format: 376 pages,

Four stories that illustrate Muriel Spark's unique wit and wisdom: 'The Portobello Road', 'Bang-ban… read more

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14. Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

By: Juliet McDaniel

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. Dick Nixon was just sworn in as the thirty-seventh President of the United States… read more

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  • humor
  • book club
  • fiction
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15. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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16. Rumpole and the younger generation

By: John Mortimer

4.06

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

The first-ever Rumpole story, introducing many of the characters and setting the scene for the whol… read more

Similar categories in John Mortimer's Rumpole and the younger generation book and John Mortimer's Rumpole and the younger generation

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • book club
Cover of Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1) by Nathan W. Pyle

17. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

By: Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."

-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

Cover of The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (44 Scotland Street, #17) by Alexander McCall Smith

18. The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (44 Scotland Street, #17)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in the warm and welcoming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite r… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
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19. Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art

By: Camille Paglia

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. With her b… read more

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"Male urination is a form of commentary."

-Camille Paglia, Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art

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20. Pages From a Scullion's Diary

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

)EXTRACT FROM DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS) read more

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  • fiction
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21. Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories

By: John Updike

3.31

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persist… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Happy Prince

Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Genius and Other Stories

Frank O'Connor

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Scale

Will Self

3.95

Transform Your Habits

A Taste of Life and Other Stories

Sara Paretsky

4.32

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Transform Your Habits

Village Christmas (Fairacre, #6)

Miss Read

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Genius and Other Stories

Frank O'Connor

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Pavilion on the Links

Robert Louis Stevenson

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Scale

Will Self

3.95

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