12 Best short stories books like Cannibalism in the Cars and Other Humorous Sketches by Mark Twain

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Cannibalism in the Cars and Other Humorous Sketches

By: Mark Twain

3.73

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Mark Twain is the rambunctious father of all cynics. His wry observations and biting jibes made him…

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1. Niebla

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Esta obra de Miguel de Unamuno es uno de los ejemplos clásicos más eminentes de la novela moderna. … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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2. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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3. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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4. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • short stories
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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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5. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story set in Africa. It was published in the … read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. A Jury of Her Peers

By: Susan Glaspell

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two women uncover the truth in a rural murder investigation. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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7. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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8. Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
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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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  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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. 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
  • classics
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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

11. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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12. Ligeia

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.51

Format: 235 pages,

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

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13. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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14. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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15. Indian Camp

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.91

Format: 434 pages,

A young boy is taken by his doctor father to an indian camp to heal an indian. read more

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16. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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17. The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.08

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque ..") is a short story written by Edgar All… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"For the love of God, Montresor!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

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18. The Human Chair

By: Edogawa Rampo

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

A short story about a chair that holds a dark secret. read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"Could it be that in the end, we Japanese are unable to feel true love for any except our fellow Japanese?"

-Edogawa Rampo, The Human Chair

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19. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.25

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Über Menschen

By: Juli Zeh

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Dora ist mit ihrer kleinen Hündin aufs Land gezogen. Sie brauchte dringend einen Tapetenwechsel, me… read more

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  • audiobook
"Aus dem Nachbargarten schallen fröhliche Stimmen herüber. Dora geht zur Mauer und steigt auf den Stuhl. Ein Fußballspiel ist in vollem Gang. Gote gegen Franzi und Jochen. Die Taktik der Mädchen-Hund-…"

-Juli Zeh, Über Menschen

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21. Cannibalism in the Cars and Other Humorous Sketches

By: Mark Twain

3.73

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Mark Twain is the rambunctious father of all cynics. His wry observations and biting jibes made him… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • 19th century
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook

14 Best fiction books like Cannibalism in the Cars and Other Humorous Sketches by Mark Twain

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Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

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The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

4.15

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Life in the Iron Mills

Rebecca Harding Davis , Cecelia Tichi

3.42

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The Minister's Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.73

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Kate Chopin

3.61

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Stephen Crane

3.56

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