If you liked the 19th century plot in Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde , here is a list of 7 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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- 19th century
- classics
- short stories
"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 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
- literature
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
"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
3. Dead Poets Society
By: N.H. Kleinbaum
4.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since thei… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
"Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!"-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. "-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
4. 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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- classics
- literature
- 19th century
- philosophy
- 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
5. 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
- literature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
6. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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- classics
- literature
- 19th century
- philosophy
- short stories
"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
7. 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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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- short stories
8. 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
9. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
By: Emily Dickinson
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
- classics
- short stories
10. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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- poetry
- classics
- literature
- 19th century
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
11. 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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- literature
- 19th century
- classics
- short stories
12. Aphorisms on Love and Hate
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred mus… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
13. 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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14. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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- literature
- 19th century
- classics
- short stories
"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
15. 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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16. A Nervous Breakdown
By: Anton Chekhov
3.50
Format: None pages,
'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to kn… read more
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17. 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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18. Bobok
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.48
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873.… read more
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- classics
- literature
- 19th century
- philosophy
- short stories
"Acho que o mais inteligente é quem ao menos uma vez por mês chama a si mesmo de imbecil — capacidade de que hoje não se ouve falar!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
"I don't like it when people with only a general education rush to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all of the time among us."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
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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