11 Top short stories books like Mother by Sherwood Anderson

Mother

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.89

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of Remember, Body... by Constantinos P. Cavafy

1. Remember, Body...

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more

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  • fiction
"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

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2. Bliss

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback

But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

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3. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • fiction
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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4. The Open Boat

By: Stephen Crane

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Four men struggle for survival after escaping from a sinking ship and into a small open boat. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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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
  • fiction
"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

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7. 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
"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

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8. The Swimmer

By: John Cheever

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Neddy Merrill decides to swim home from a friend's pool party, traveling from fashionable swimming … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman

9. The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley , Harry Buxton Forman

4.06

Format: 360 pages,

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10. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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11. The Sculptor's Funeral

By: Willa Cather

2.50

Format: 260 pages,

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12. To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more

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13. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

14. Barn Burning

By: William Faulkner

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Har… read more

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15. The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

3.68

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more

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  • fiction
"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She had resolved to never take another step backward."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."

-Kate Chopin, The Awakening

16. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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17. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By: T.S. Eliot

4.50

Format: None pages,

Dive deep into The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot anywhere you go: on a plane, on a … read more

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18. How it Feels to be Colored Me (American Roots)

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

'Ik voel me het meest van kleur wanneer ik tegen een schrille witte achtergrond word geworpen.' … read more

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"He has only heard what I felt."

-Zora Neale Hurston, How it Feels to be Colored Me (American Roots)

"I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

-Zora Neale Hurston, How it Feels to be Colored Me (American Roots)

"No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

-Zora Neale Hurston, How it Feels to be Colored Me (American Roots)

"But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all."

-Zora Neale Hurston, How it Feels to be Colored Me (American Roots)

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19. The Man Who Was Almost a Man

By: Richard Wright

3.28

Format: None pages, None

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  • fiction
Cover of Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

20. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

21. Mother

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.89

Format: None pages, None

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13 Top fiction books like Mother by Sherwood Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Remember, Body...

Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Bliss

Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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The Open Boat

Stephen Crane

4.29

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11 Top fiction books like Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

4.30

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Araby

James Joyce

3.65

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The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

4.07

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