25 best-selling short stories books like Putois by Anatole France

Cover of Putois by Anatole France

Putois

By: Anatole France

4.12

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

Reprint of an 1907 edition.

If you liked the short stories plot in Putois by Anatole France , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of The Shot by Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Poushkin

1. The Shot

By: Alexander Pushkin , Alexander Poushkin

3.86

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Shot is a short story written by Alexander Pushkin, one of the most renowned Russian writers of… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

2. The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cover of The Egg by Andy Weir

4. The Egg

By: Andy Weir

3.41

Format: None pages, ebook

A short story about the universe. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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6. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

7. Ivy Day in the Committee Room

By: James Joyce

3.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck

8. The Chrysanthemums

By: John Steinbeck

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of A. V. Laider by Max Beerbohm

9. A. V. Laider

By: Max Beerbohm

4.04

Format: None pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Jockey by Carson McCullers

10. The Jockey

By: Carson McCullers

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

The Jockeyis a short story set among the horse racing circles of Depression era America. Published … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

11. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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12. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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13. The Other Two

By: Edith Wharton

4.28

Format: 320 pages,

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14. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

By: William Saroyan

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse is a short story by William Saroyan, published within the c… read more

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15. These Violent Delights

By: Micah Nemerever

3.97

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more

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  • fiction
"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

16. Brooksmith

By: Henry James

3.27

Format: None pages, None

A middle-period short story by Henry James about the enthusiasms and decay of an intellectually cur… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Mr. Offord's drawing-room was indeed Brooksmith's garden, his pruned and tended human parterre, and if we all flourished there and grew well in our places it was largely owing to his supervision."

-Henry James, Brooksmith

Cover of Graven Image by John O'Hara

17. Graven Image

By: John O'Hara

2.71

Format: None pages, magazine

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Putois by Anatole France

18. Putois

By: Anatole France

4.12

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

Reprint of an 1907 edition. read more

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  • short stories
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of The Door by E.B. White

19. The Door

By: E.B. White

3.38

Format: 6 pages, None

Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

20. The Curfew Tolls

By: Stephen Vincent Benét

3.66

Format: None pages, None

A famous short story read more

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21. Father wakes up the village

By: Clarence Day Jr.

3.10

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley

22. The Gioconda Smile

By: Aldous Huxley

3.17

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Short story, originally published in the 1922 collection Mortal Coils. "Miss Spence will be down… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles by Edmund Wilson

23. The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles

By: Edmund Wilson

3.63

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Man of the House by Frank O'Connor

24. The Man of the House

By: Frank O'Connor

3.26

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

25. Looking Back

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.52

Format: None pages, None

In this short story, a country priest explains his vocation to an old friend. read more

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  • short stories
  • france
Cover of Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe

26. Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

By: Thomas Wolfe

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Short Stories. read more

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  • fiction

27. The Man Higher Up

By: O. Henry

3.26

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories

28. Theft

By: Katherine Anne Porter

2.77

Format: 7 pages, None

A day in the life of an unnamed urban woman. read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Courting of Dinah Shadd (Cosimo Classics Literature) by Rudyard Kipling

29. The Courting of Dinah Shadd (Cosimo Classics Literature)

By: Rudyard Kipling

2.93

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

You must not, you cannot cross Old Court House Street without looking carefully to see that you sta… read more

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  • short stories

30. The Other Side of the Hedge

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: None pages, None

A short work of magic realism, from a masterful writer. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

31. The Saint

By: V.S. Pritchett

3.26

Format: None pages, None

"When I was seventeen years old I lost my religious faith." So begins this short story from V.S.… read more

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  • fiction

19 best-selling fiction books like Putois by Anatole France

Transform Your Habits

The Shot

Alexander Pushkin , Alexander Poushkin

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Egg

Andy Weir

3.41

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That Evening Sun

William Faulkner

3.66

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The Coffee House of Surat

Leo Tolstoy

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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The Catbird Seat

James Thurber

3.26

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