"A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths."-Jo Ann Beard, The Fourth State of Matter
"A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths."-Jo Ann Beard, The Fourth State of Matter
If you liked the short stories plot in The Fourth State of Matter by Jo Ann Beard , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. Total Eclipse
By: Annie Dillard
4.07
Format: None pages, Cassette
Two years after seeing the eclipse, Dillard wrote about the experience. The total eclipse leads Dil… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
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
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- short stories
"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
3. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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- short stories
- school
- read for school
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García
4.21
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more
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"Tonight I Can Write"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I remembered you with my soul clenched"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I want to fill my mouth with your name."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
5. Out of Oz (The Wicked Years, #4)
By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith
3.85
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda … read more
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"You always said I could see the present,"-Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz (The Wicked Years, #4)
"Of course. You get everything from books."-Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz (The Wicked Years, #4)
"Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only..."-Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz (The Wicked Years, #4)
"The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious."-Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz (The Wicked Years, #4)
6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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- school
- read for school
"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7. Brokeback Mountain
By: Annie Proulx
4.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more
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- short stories
"I wish I knew how to quit you."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
8. Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
By: Eula Biss , David Sedaris , Charles Bowden , David Foster Wallace , Amy Tan , Ryan Van Meter , John McPhee , Barbara Kingsolver , Brenda Miller , Annie Dillard , Wendell Berry , Jo Ann Beard , Cheryl Strayed , Mark Doty , Kathleen Norris , Naomi Shihab Nye , Jamaica Kincaid , Diane Glancy , Tony Earley , Richard Selzer , Janet Burroway , Barry Lopez , Lucy Grealy , Floyd Skloot , Phillip Lopate , Anne Carson , Mary Clearman Blew , William Neal Harrison , Adam Hochschild , Thomas Lynch , Sue William Silverman , Dinty W. Moore , Richard Rhodes , Rebecca McClanahan , Robin Hemley , Lex Williford , Michael Martone , Ted Kooser , Brian Doyle , Sara Levine , Lia Purpura , Bernard Cooper , None , None , Harrison Candelaria Fletcher , E.J. Levy , Lee Martin , Erin McGraw , Bill Roorbach , Lauren Slater , None
3.87
Format: 237 pages,
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism - this unique, indispensable antho… read more
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- memoir
- school
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
9. 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
- school
- read for school
"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
10. The Uncanny
By: Sigmund Freud , Adam Phillips , David McLintock , Hugh Haughton
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works t… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
11. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
By: Simon Singh
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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- school
13. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- essays
14. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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- school
- read for school
"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
15. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
By: Oscar Wilde
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Large format for easy reading. Perhaps the most famous poem from the famous dramatist, novelist and… read more
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16. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
By: Oscar Wilde
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim… read more
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17. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
By: Octavio Paz , Wang Wei , Eliot Weinberger
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger … read more
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18. The Spare Room
By: Helen Garner
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the othe… read more
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19. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays
By: Gay Talese
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank S… read more
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20. Salomé
By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more
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21. An Ideal Husband
By: Oscar Wilde
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one n… read more
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22. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
23. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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24. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. The Lady with the Little Dog
By: Anton Chekhov
3.72
Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more
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- short stories
- school
"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog
26. This Was Our Pact
By: Ryan Andrews
4.08
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns… read more
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"No one is going to force you to, but if you don't jump in, you'll always think back on this moment and wish that you had."-Ryan Andrews, This Was Our Pact
"Sometimes I wish I could join them... The fish, I mean. Really, could you imagine? How splendid it would be... to swim among the stars? Sigh."-Ryan Andrews, This Was Our Pact
"I figure the only way we can make it back to the river and our lanterns is if we're a team. Maybe you'd rather be with the other guys from class, or, I don't know, maybe just by yourself—but for now—…"-Ryan Andrews, This Was Our Pact
27. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Husband Stitch
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.36
Format: 45 pages, ebook
"‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’ … read more
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- school
"I feel as lonely as I have ever been"-Carmen Maria Machado, The Husband Stitch
29. The Glass Essay
By: Anne Carson
4.54
Format: None pages, Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/the-glass-essay Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay” from… read more
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- memoir
- read for school
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"Girls are cruelest to themselves."-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
"From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire."-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
"Charlotte’s preface to Wuthering Heights is a publicist’s masterpiece. Like someone carefully not looking at a scorpion crouched on the arm of the sofa"-Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
30. The Fourth State of Matter
By: Jo Ann Beard
4.65
Format: None pages, None
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- history
- memoir
- school
- true crime
- read for school
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths."-Jo Ann Beard, The Fourth State of Matter
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- nonfiction
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