If you liked the short stories plot in The Man Higher Up by O. Henry , here is a list of 23 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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2. 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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3. 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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"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
4. The Catbird Seat
By: James Thurber
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Short story first published in The New Yorker, Nov. 14, 1942. Mr. Martin, a man of exemplary habits… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. Ivy Day in the Committee Room
By: James Joyce
3.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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10. The Man Who Could Work Miracles
By: H.G. Wells
4.11
Format: 192 pages,
"The subsequent meditations of Mr. Fotheringay were of a severe but confused description. So far, h… read more
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11. 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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14. The Standard of Living
By: Dorothy Parker
4.27
Format: 304 pages,
Tells about Anabel and Midge, two little 18-dollars-a-week stenographers who played the game of wha… read more
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15. The Schartz-Metterklume Method
By: Saki
3.80
Format: 144 pages,
At a railway station, an arrogant and overbearing woman (Mrs. Quabarl) mistakes the mischievous Lad… read more
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16. 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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18. Putois
By: Anatole France
4.12
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
Reprint of an 1907 edition. read more
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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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20. The Death of a Bachelor
By: Arthur Schnitzler
3.49
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
The story speaks of the betrayal of wives to their husbands. A rich and sick bachelor wrote a lette… read more
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21. The Apostate
By: George Milburn
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
“The Apostate” is a short story written by George Milburn in 1937, published in The New Yorker (Jun… read more
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22. How Beautiful With Shoes
By: Wilbur Daniel Steele
3.95
Format: None pages, Print Magazine
A simple farm girl is abducted by an escapee from the mental institution and has her life changed f… read more
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23. The Curfew Tolls
By: Stephen Vincent Benét
3.66
Format: None pages, None
A famous short story read more
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24. Father wakes up the village
By: Clarence Day Jr.
3.10
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
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25. 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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26. The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles
By: Edmund Wilson
3.63
Format: None pages, None
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27. The Man of the House
By: Frank O'Connor
3.26
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
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28. 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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29. Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
By: Thomas Wolfe
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Short Stories. read more
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31. 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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