If you liked the short stories plot in The Man of the World by Frank O'Connor , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. I Bought a Little City
By: Donald Barthelme
3.48
Format: 13 pages, Kindle Edition
"I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god,… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
4. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
5. The Golden Notebook
By: Doris Lessing
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more
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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
"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. Lady Windermere's Fan
By: Oscar Wilde
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan… read more
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8. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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- audiobook
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
9. Emergency
By: Denis Johnson
4.38
Format: None pages, Podcast
I'd like to strongly recommend that you listen to this month's fiction podcast, in which Tobias Wol… read more
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- short stories
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
11. Le Colonel Chabert
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.59
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more
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"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert
12. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
By: Dan Simmons
3.77
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more
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- audiobook
13. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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- audiobook
"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
14. The Dutch House
By: Ann Patchett
4.10
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to beg… read more
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- audiobook
"You don't have to like your work to be good at it."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"We had stepped into the river that takes you forward."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"Even the stupidest ideas have resonance once they’ve happened"-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"We were all so young, you know. We were still our best selves."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
15. The Man of the World
By: Frank O'Connor
3.59
Format: None pages, None
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- short stories
- irish literature
- audiobook
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- short stories
- audiobook
17. Figures in the Distance
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.70
Format: None pages, ebook
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- short stories
- audiobook
