7 best-selling short stories books like The Colonel's Lady (Short Story) by W. Somerset Maugham

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The Colonel's Lady (Short Story)

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.82

Format: None pages, None

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If you liked the short stories plot in The Colonel's Lady (Short Story) by W. Somerset Maugham , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of First Love by Constance Garnett, Ivan Turgenev

1. First Love

By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

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  • short stories
"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

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2. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)

By: Lilian Jackson Braun

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jim Qwilleran is a prizewinning reporter who's been on the skids but is now coming back with a job … read more

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"It was a man's salad, zesty and full of crunch."

-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)

"When a cat, who is a picture of grace and beauty, suddenly rolls over in a hideous posture, contorts his face and scratches his ear, he is telling you, sir, to go to blazes!"

-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1)

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3. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • british literature
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Cover of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore

4. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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  • short stories
"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

Cover of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Gillian Avery

5. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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6. Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more

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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

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7. The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more

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  • short stories
"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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8. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • short stories
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9. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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10. He

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.50

Format: 231 pages, ebook

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more

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  • short stories
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11. Crito

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

5.00

Format: 160 pages, paper

Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more

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12. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • short stories

13. 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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14. The Lady's Maid's Bell

By: Edith Wharton

4.32

Format: 318 pages,

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15. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

By: Neil Gaiman

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on myriad topics--from art and artists to dreams, my… read more

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16. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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17. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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18. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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19. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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20. The Night in Lisbon

By: Erich Maria Remarque , Эрих Мария Ремарк , Ralph Manheim

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survi… read more

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21. Rooftoppers

By: Katherine Rundell

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from … read more

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22. The Black Tulip

By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.34

Format: 592 pages,

'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it for… read more

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23. Kitty Language: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding Your Cat

By: Lili Chin

4.43

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Learn to identify every meow, tail swish, and slow blink in this fun, informative, illustrated guid… read more

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24. The Colonel's Lady (Short Story)

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.82

Format: None pages, None

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso read more

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  • british literature
  • short stories
  • english literature
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25. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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26. The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul

By: William Sieghart

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The US edition of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy A beautiful collection of curated poems each… read more

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27. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity by Timothy C. Winegard

28. The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity

By: Timothy C. Winegard

4.14

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER An International Bestseller A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book An Amazo… read more

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29. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

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3.87

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3.95

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3.81

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