9 must-read short stories books like Daisy Miller by Henry James

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Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

3.37

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les…

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

If you liked the short stories plot in Daisy Miller by Henry James , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

3.37

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • novels
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

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2. 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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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

3. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

By: Stephen Crane

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streetsat his own expense. Consider… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Life in the Iron Mills

By: Rebecca Harding Davis

4.14

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. A White Heron

By: Sarah Orne Jewett , Douglas Alvord

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

What is an individual's responsibility to nature? Does our desire to understand the world give us t… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. Roman Fever

By: Edith Wharton

3.33

Format: 170 pages,

While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic riva… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction

7. Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • american
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  • fiction
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8. 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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  • american
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  • 19th century
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  • novels
"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

Cover of The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chesnutt

9. The Goophered Grapevine

By: Charles W. Chesnutt

4.00

Format: None pages,

The first story by a black writer to appear in The Atlantic magazine. read more

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  • 19th century
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10. The Wife of His Youth

By: Charles W. Chesnutt

4.51

Format: 192 pages,

A famous short story read more

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11. Regret

By: Kate Chopin

3.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When Mademoiselle Aurelie's neighbour appears and asks her to take care of her four children in an … read more

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12. The Passing of Grandison

By: Charles W. Chesnutt

3.14

Format: 208 pages,

A famous short story read more

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13. Desiree's Baby

By: Kate Chopin , None

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Audiobook

Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly with a Louisiana Creole back… read more

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14. The Rise of Silas Lapham

By: William Dean Howells , Kermit Vanderbilt

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society… read more

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15. My Kinsman Major Molineux

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.41

Format: None pages,

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16. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

By: Mark Twain

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identi… read more

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17. 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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18. The Other Two

By: Edith Wharton

4.28

Format: 320 pages,

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19. 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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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • 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

20. Charlotte Temple

By: Cathy N. Davidson , Susanna Rowson

3.64

Format: 216 pages,

Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular Am… read more

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21. The Marrow of Tradition

By: Charles W. Chesnutt

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addresse… read more

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