10 must-read classics books like The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

4.29

Format: 650 pages, Paperback

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of E…

"My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

If you liked the classics plot in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Fat City

By: Leonard Gardner

4.02

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more

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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"

-Leonard Gardner, Fat City

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2. Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

By: Walt Whitman , Michael Moon

4.27

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

This revised Norton Critical Edition contains the most complete and authoritative collection of Whi… read more

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"The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung."

-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

"And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels."

-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

"The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul, …"

-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

"TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST. To the East and to the West, To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love, These with perfect trust to depi…"

-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

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3. The Power Elite

By: C. Wright Mills , Alan Wolfe

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and soc… read more

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"People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

"Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount to anything; perhaps this did effect in him an inordinate drive fo…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

"El humanista, por ejemplo, puede concebir la élite no como un plano o categoría social, sino como el conjunto de los individuos dispersos que intentan superarse a sí mismos y que, en consecuencia, so…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

"The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what to do with their money; the idea that the successful become fill…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

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4. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

4.29

Format: 650 pages, Paperback

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of E… read more

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"My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Cover of The Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli

5. The Short Stories

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Matthew J. Bruccoli

4.23

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his … read more

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"When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

"In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anyth…"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

"I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Pe…"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

"Will father be there?" she asked. John turned to her in astonishment. Your father is dead," he replied somberly. "Why should he go to Hades? You have it confused with another place that was abolished…"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

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6. The Tunnel

By: William H. Gass

4.17

Format: None pages,

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 199… read more

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7. Practice of the Wild

By: Gary Snyder

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. Future readers will come t… read more

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8. Selected Stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Z… read more

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9. Book of Haikus

By: Jack Kerouac , Regina Weinreich

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master o… read more

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10. The Red Pony

By: John Steinbeck

3.48

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him … read more

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"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

"On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of rest…"

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the …"

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

"The grandfather was dresses in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. He carried his black slouch hat in his hand. His white beard was cropp…"

-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

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11. Hemingway: The Paris Years

By: Michael S. Reynolds

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the w… read more

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12. The Ice-Shirt

By: William T. Vollmann

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings o… read more

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13. A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

By: William Faulkner

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Faulkner's most famous, most popular, and most anthologized short story, "A Rose for Emily" evokes … read more

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14. Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greate… read more

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15. Collected Stories

By: William Faulkner

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  "I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to writ… read more

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16. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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17. Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

By: Paul Hendrickson

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsid… read more

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18. Anthills of the Savannah

By: Chinua Achebe

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellenc… read more

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19. بهترین داستان‌های کوتاه / آنتون پاولوویچ چخوف

By: Anton Chekhov , احمد گلشیری

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

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20. Sabbath's Theater

By: Philip Roth

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Sabbath's Theateris a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero… read more

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21. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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