If you liked the classics plot in Old Water by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , here is a list of 19 books like this:
1. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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- classics
"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
2. Femme Fatale
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.56
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more
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- classics
- fiction
3. Letters to Milena
By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská
3.89
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more
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- classics
"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
5. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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- fiction
7. A Clean Well Lighted Place
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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- fiction
9. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
10. Der Sandmann
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. Hop Frog
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Don Kisner , None
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Hop-Frog and his friend Trippetta have been captured by one of the king's generals and brought back… read more
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- classics
- fiction
12. The Icarus Girl
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Posses… read more
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- fiction
13. İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Lev Tolstoy
1.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Insan Ne Ile Yasar" unlu dusunur ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dunyasina hitap eden hikaye… read more
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- classics
- fiction
14. The Knight in the Panther's Skin
By: Shota Rustaveli , Venera Urushadze
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
The first English verse translation of the Georgian epic of adventure and romance written in 12th o… read more
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- classics
- fiction
15. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
16. The Devil
By: Leo Tolstoy
3.43
Format: 42 pages,
After talking to Samokhin, Eugene returned to the house as depressed as if he had committed a crime… read more
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17. Mrs Rosie and the Priest
By: Giovanni Boccaccio
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cr… read more
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18. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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19. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
20. Bobok
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.48
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873.… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Acho que o mais inteligente é quem ao menos uma vez por mês chama a si mesmo de imbecil — capacidade de que hoje não se ouve falar!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
"I don't like it when people with only a general education rush to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all of the time among us."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
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22. In the Penal Colony
By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more
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23. The Last Question
By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more
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24. The Ash-Born Boy (The Near Witch, #0.5)
By: Victoria Schwab
3.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Before he came to Near... Before he met Lexi... Before they faced the witch... Who was the boy name… read more
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25. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- fiction
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
26. Boy meets Maria
By: Peyo .
4.30
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Taiga, que desde pequeño ha sentido fascinación por los héroes, encuentra a la chica de su vida al … read more
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- fiction
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- classics
- fiction
28. Before the Law
By: Franz Kafka
3.98
Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition
Before the Law (German: Vor dem Gesetz) is a parable contained in the novel The Trial (German: Der … read more
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- classics
- fiction
29. The Breakthrough
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.59
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of lif… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"These involve programming it with a series of questions. The answers are then fed back into the computer, and are themselves used to modify the questions that follow."-Daphne du Maurier, The Breakthrough
30. When I Dare to Be Powerful
By: Audre Lorde
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet,… read more
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- classics
31. Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
By: Misaki Ichijo
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll dat… read more
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- fiction
"No wound vanishes completely, because wounds are also memories. But the pain won’t last forever."-Misaki Ichijo, Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
