If you liked the short stories plot in The Gay Old Dog by Edna Ferber , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. The Conversion of the Jews
By: Philip Roth
3.99
Format: 40 pages, Library Binding
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. 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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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
5. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
6. Haircut
By: Ring Lardner
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
A barber regales a customer with stories about some of the characters in his small town. read more
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- short stories
- fiction
7. Babylon Revisited
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams… read more
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8. The Monkey's Paw (Oxford Bookworms)
By: W.W. Jacobs , Diane Mowat
3.37
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were dra… read more
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10. I Stand Here Ironing
By: Tillie Olsen
3.75
Format: 40 pages,
Published in Tillie Olsen's short story collection "Tell Me a Riddle" in 1961. read more
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11. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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13. That will be Fine
By: William Faulkner
3.46
Format: None pages, ebook
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- short stories
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15. The Cracked Looking-Glass
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.04
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
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- fiction
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- classics
- fiction
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- fiction
19. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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