16 must-read fiction books like The Three Electroknights by Stanisław Lem

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The Three Electroknights

By: Stanisław Lem

3.33

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a…

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1. Investigations of a Dog

By: Franz Kafka

4.62

Format: None pages,

"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short story by Franz Kafka writ… read more

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2. Notes on Nationalism

By: George Orwell

4.01

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • 20th century
  • short stories
"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"

-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

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3. The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.48

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgress… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"Sometimes she answered, 'My mouth wants you, I want to feel you in my mouth, way down in my mouth.' Other times she answered, 'I am moist between the legs."

-Anaïs Nin, The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

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4. The Three Electroknights

By: Stanisław Lem

3.33

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a… read more

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  • classics
  • short story collection
  • poland
  • short stories
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • polish literature
  • modern classics
  • fantasy
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5. Three Japanese Short Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.28

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

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6. The Vigilante

By: John Steinbeck

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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7. 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
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • science fiction
  • modern classics
"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

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8. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

By: Clarice Lispector

3.52

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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9. Letter from Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

4.54

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780062509550. 'Injustice anywhere is a th… read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
"It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over..."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."

-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

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10. The Black Ball

By: Ellison Ralph

3.79

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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11. Food

By: Gertrude Stein

1.96

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits … read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • 20th century
  • short stories
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12. The Missing Girl

By: Shirley Jackson

3.55

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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13. The Distance of the Moon

By: Italo Calvino

3.86

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • modern classics
  • fantasy
"To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration."

-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

"My return was sweet, my home refound, but my thoughts were filled only with grief at having lost her, and my eyes gazed at the Moon, for ever beyond my reach, as I sought her. And I saw her. She was …"

-Italo Calvino, The Distance of the Moon

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14. I Have More Souls Than One

By: Fernando Pessoa

3.96

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumbere… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber by Allen Ginsberg

15. Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber

By: Allen Ginsberg

2.84

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering. read more

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  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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16. The Custard Heart

By: Dorothy Parker

3.68

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heart… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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17. The Great Hunger (Penguin Modern)

By: Patrick Kavanagh

3.48

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
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18. The Legend of the Sleepers (Penguin Modern)

By: Danilo Kiš

2.93

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • science fiction
  • modern classics
  • fantasy
Cover of An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern) by Ryszard Kapuściński

19. An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern)

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

3.61

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World … read more

Similar categories in Ryszard Kapuściński's An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Penguin Modern) book and Stanisław Lem's The Three Electroknights

  • classics
  • poland
  • short stories
  • 20th century
  • polish literature
  • modern classics
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20. Till September Petronella

By: Jean Rhys

3.39

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl—all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stor… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics
"We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt…"

-Jean Rhys, Till September Petronella

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21. Four Russian Short Stories

By: Gaito Gazdanov

3.35

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

In these stories, four writers—all exiles from revolutionary Russia—explore four deaths in a world … read more

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  • classics
  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • modern classics

20 Top classics books like The Three Electroknights by Stanisław Lem

Transform Your Habits

Notes on Nationalism

George Orwell

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

Anaïs Nin

3.48

Transform Your Habits

The Three Electroknights

Stanisław Lem

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Three Japanese Short Stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.28

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20 Top classics books like Food by Gertrude Stein

Transform Your Habits

Notes on Nationalism

George Orwell

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Veiled Woman (PENGUIN MODERN)

Anaïs Nin

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Create Dangerously

Albert Camus

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Three Electroknights

Stanisław Lem

3.33

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