12 best-selling short stories books like Las Ménades by Julio Cortázar

Las Ménades

By: Julio Cortázar

3.52

Format: 15 pages, None

( Final del juego, 1956 )

If you liked the short stories plot in Las Ménades by Julio Cortázar , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore

1. 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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  • short stories
"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

Cover of The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, Jane Ray

2. The Happy Prince

By: Oscar Wilde , Jane Ray

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed… read more

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  • short stories
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Bring me the two most precious things in the city,"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo."

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,…"

-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

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3. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • short stories
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

Cover of Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote by Jorge Luis Borges

4. Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.64

Format: 322 pages,

Pierre Menard, el otro autor del Quijote, no quiere reversionar el Quijote, tampoco pretende escrib… read more

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  • short stories
"It is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote of Pierre Menard with that of Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, for example, wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX): ...truth, whose mother is history, r…"

-Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

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5. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

6. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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7. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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8. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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9. 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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  • short stories
"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

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10. Crimen y castigo

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los… read more

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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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  • 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

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12. Funes el Memorioso

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

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  • short stories
Cover of La muerte y la brújula by Jorge Luis Borges

13. La muerte y la brújula

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Integran este volumen nueve cuentos que Jorge Luis Borges reviso y corrigio para su publicacion en … read more

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  • short stories
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14. El Sur [Cuento]

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.75

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • short stories

15. El fin

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.50

Format: 228 pages, ebook

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16. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Here is a handsome edition of one of Borges' "ficciones," in a translation first published in "Laby… read more

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17. The Nightingale and the Rose

By: Oscar Wilde

2.80

Format: None pages,

An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it em… read more

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18. The Library of Babel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres

4.35

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more

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  • short stories
"O Time thy pyramids."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

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19. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

Cover of Tema del traidor y del héroe by Jorge Luis Borges

20. Tema del traidor y del héroe

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.79

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Cuento "Tema del traidor y del héroe". read more

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  • short stories

21. Las Ménades

By: Julio Cortázar

3.52

Format: 15 pages, None

( Final del juego, 1956 ) read more

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George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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3.98

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