If you liked the short stories plot in My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. The Yellow Wall-Paper
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.07
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more
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- feminism
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
2. A Modern Detective
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.17
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
In these two stories gentleman sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective, investigates… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
- american
3. Alone on the Beach at Night
By: Walt Whitman
3.22
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whit… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- american
- short stories
- fiction
4. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
By: Yoshida Kenkō , Meredith McKinney
3.74
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune wi… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
"It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires."-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
"I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky"-Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
5. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- american
- feminism
- fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
6. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
7. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
8. The World is Full of Foolish Men
By: Jean de la Fontaine
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
'The pleasure is twice as sweet When you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from o… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
9. Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars
By: Dante Alighieri
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos fr… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
- fiction
10. I Hate and I Love
By: Catullus
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.… read more
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- poetry
- classics
11. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
By: Emily Dickinson
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
- classics
- american
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- queer
12. The Tyger
By: Neil Waldman , William Blake
2.96
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Almost 200 years after it first appeared in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, one of the world'… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
13. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
14. To Be Read at Dusk
By: Charles Dickens
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that t… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
15. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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16. The Beautifull Cassandra
By: Jane Austen
3.62
Format: 320 pages,
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen'… read more
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17. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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18. The Fall of Icarus
By: Ovid , Mary M. Innes
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .' Enduring m… read more
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19. A Terrible Beauty Is Born
By: W.B. Yeats
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joy… read more
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20. Why I Am so Clever
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Why do I know a few morethings? Why am I so clever altogether?' Self-celebrating and self-mocking … read more
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21. The Night is Darkening Round Me
By: Emily Brontë
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more
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