17 Top short stories books like La otra muerte by Jorge Luis Borges

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La otra muerte

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.83

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "La otra muerte", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 194…

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1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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  • short stories
"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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2. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more

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"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

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3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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4. 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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  • short stories
"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

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5. Casa tomada [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan

3.95

Format: 5 pages, ebook

Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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7. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
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8. Headache [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Dave McKean , Michael Cisco

3.84

Format: 528 pages, ebook

The late Julio Cortazar was a sickly child and spent many hours in bed. Perhaps those memories insp… read more

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9. Las puertas del cielo

By: Julio Cortázar

3.91

Format: None pages, ebook

A las ocho vino Jose Maria con la noticia, casi sin rodeos me dijo que Celina acababa de morir. Me … read more

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10. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • short stories
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11. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

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  • short stories
"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

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12. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more

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13. 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

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14. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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15. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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16. Circe

By: Julio Cortázar

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "Circe" de Julio Cortazar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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17. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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  • short stories

18. Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

Mistborn: Secret Historyis a companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. As such, it contains… read more

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19. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

20. Lejana

By: Julio Cortázar

2.88

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "Lejana" de Julio Cortazar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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21. Bestiario [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar

4.11

Format: 40 pages, ebook

Cuento "Bestiario", originalmente publicado en 1951 en el libro Bestiario. read more

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22. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more

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23. Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte

By: Horacio Quiroga

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Constituye la obra cumbre del autor, en las breves y apasionantes historias que componen el libro, … read more

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24. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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25. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • short stories
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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26. La teoría de los archipiélagos

By: Alice Kellen

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

«La teoría de los archipiélagos viene a decir que todos somos islas, llegamos solos a este mundo y … read more

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"Que la vida se mide en besos: los que se quedan esperando y los que se dan y son eternos."

-Alice Kellen, La teoría de los archipiélagos

27. Carta a una señorita en París

By: Julio Cortázar

3.94

Format: None pages, None

In 'Brief aan een meisje in Parijs', een keuze uit de bundels 'Final des juego' en 'Bestiario', bou… read more

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  • short stories

28. Ómnibus

By: Julio Cortázar

3.43

Format: None pages, None

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29. La otra muerte

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.83

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "La otra muerte", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 194… read more

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30. Hecha de estrellas

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.20

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Mara y Owen son los gemelos más cercanos del mundo. Así que cuando él es acusado de violación, ella… read more

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"–No eres una víctima. Eres una sobreviviente"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Hecha de estrellas

"¿Cómo nos involucramos tanto al punto de no poder imaginar una vida sin ella?"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Hecha de estrellas

"We are worth the telling. We are worth the fight. We are worth a good life and love after."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Hecha de estrellas

"Hablar con sus padres sobre ella, sobre cualquier cosa de ella, siempre ha sido una especie de campo minado para Charlie"

-Ashley Herring Blake, Hecha de estrellas

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