"Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die."-J.D. Salinger, Teddy
"Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die."-J.D. Salinger, Teddy
"The reason things seem to stop off somewhere is because that’s the only way most people know how to look at things, he said. But that doesn’t mean they do."-J.D. Salinger, Teddy
"The reason things seem to stop off somewhere is because that’s the only way most people know how to look at things, he said. But that doesn’t mean they do."-J.D. Salinger, Teddy
If you liked the short stories plot in Teddy by J.D. Salinger , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. That Evening Sun
By: William Faulkner
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Quentin Compson narrates the story of his family’s African-American washerwoman, Nancy, who fears t… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
2. Zeitoun
By: Dave Eggers
4.05
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on ter… read more
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"Then he got more books. He saved all the books."-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
"Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light."-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
"His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did American…"-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
"The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything…"-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
3. Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
By: T.S. Eliot
3.84
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
a selection from the In English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply… read more
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- literature
- classics
"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is no…"-T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
6. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- classics
7. A White Heron
By: Sarah Orne Jewett , Douglas Alvord
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
What is an individual's responsibility to nature? Does our desire to understand the world give us t… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- american
8. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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- classics
- american
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
9. The Witches of Eastwick (Eastwick #1)
By: John Updike
4.29
Format: None pages,
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers ha… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
10. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
11. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
12. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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13. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
14. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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15. The Gospel in Brief
By: Leo Tolstoy , Isabel Florence Hapgood , None , None
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Are you acquainted with Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief? At its time, this book virtually kept me al… read more
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17. The Way We Live Now
By: Susan Sontag
3.96
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Depois que um jovem antiquario bissexual contrai o virus HIV, um grupo de amigos se mobiliza para a… read more
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18. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- american
- short stories
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Ryan North
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Recomendei aos meus filhos que não se envolvam com massacres sob hipótese alguma, e que notícias de massacres de inimigos não devem ser motivo de satisfação ou alegria."-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
"A coisa mais importante que aprendi em Tralfamadore é que, quando uma pessoa morre, ela apenas parece estar morta. Mas continua bem viva no passado, e é uma bobagem chorar quando ela é enterrada. Tod…"-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
20. The Paper Menagerie
By: Ken Liu
4.58
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie
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- historical fiction
"Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die."-J.D. Salinger, Teddy
"The reason things seem to stop off somewhere is because that’s the only way most people know how to look at things, he said. But that doesn’t mean they do."-J.D. Salinger, Teddy
