If you liked the short stories plot in A Summer's Reading by Bernard Malamud , here is a list of 9 books like this:
1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
By: James Thurber
3.67
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airp… read more
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"Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity."-James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."-James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
2. 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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"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
3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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4. Man from the South
By: Roald Dahl
3.94
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
When he boasts that his lighter always lights... read more
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5. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… 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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"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. The Pit and the Pendulum
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.15
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more
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"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
8. 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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"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
9. The Fly
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.86
Format: None pages,
Kommer man nagonsin over sitt barns dod? Lastid 8 min. read more
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10. The Witches
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
This is not a fairy tale. This is about realwitches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real w… read more
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11. Reunion
By: John Cheever , Richard Ford
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Father & Son, New York City, Grand Central Station. Short story in which the narrator recalls the l… read more
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12. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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14. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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15. A&P: Lust in the Aisles
By: John Updike
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A & P" is a comic short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person na… read more
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16. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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17. The Landlady
By: Roald Dahl
4.00
Format: 279 pages,
The Landlady is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the ta… read more
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18. God Help the Child
By: Toni Morrison
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current … read more
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19. The Wood Duck
By: James Thurber
3.03
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber’s short story “The Wood Duck.” Story about a wood duck who l… read more
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20. A Summer's Reading
By: Bernard Malamud
2.95
Format: None pages, None
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