12 Top short stories books like The Atheist’s Mass by Honoré de Balzac

The Atheist’s Mass

By: Honoré de Balzac

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

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1. The Terrors of the Night

By: Thomas Nashe

2.28

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe ha… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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2. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing

By: Michel de Montaigne

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • short stories
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3. The Steel Flea

By: Nikolai Leskov

3.63

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in th… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. The Old Nurse's Story

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more

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  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story

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5. Remember, Body...

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of … read more

Similar categories in Constantinos P. Cavafy's Remember, Body... book and Honoré de Balzac's The Atheist’s Mass

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"You’ve been wholly transformed into feeling, for me."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"I have fashioned you in joy and in sorrow, / through so many happenings, out of so many things."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

"Memory, keep those eyes just as they were. / And memory, whatever you can salvage of that passion of mine, / whatever you can, bring back to me tonight."

-Constantinos P. Cavafy, Remember, Body...

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6. 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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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. 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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  • literature
  • 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

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8. Femme Fatale

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.56

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Norman… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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9. The Maldive Shark

By: Herman Melville

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • short stories
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10. The Reckoning

By: Edith Wharton

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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11. The Great Fire of London

By: Samuel Pepys

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .' A selection f… read more

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  • classics
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12. It Was Snowing Butterflies

By: Charles Darwin

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus' A selection of Darwin's extraor… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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13. The Wife of Bath

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories

14. The Atheist’s Mass

By: Honoré de Balzac

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute and Other N… read more

Similar categories in Honoré de Balzac's The Atheist’s Mass book and Honoré de Balzac's The Atheist’s Mass

  • classics
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction

15. The Old Man of the Moon

By: Shěn Fù

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?' The Old Man of the … 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. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selectio… read more

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18. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful max… read more

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19. The Nightingales are Drunk

By: Hafez , Dick Davis

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez'… read more

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20. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog

By: Johann Peter Hebel

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butc… read more

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21. Lips Too Chilled

By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics… read more

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9 Best fiction books like The Atheist’s Mass by Honoré de Balzac

Transform Your Habits

The Terrors of the Night

Thomas Nashe

2.28

Transform Your Habits

The Steel Flea

Nikolai Leskov

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Remember, Body...

Constantinos P. Cavafy

3.66

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Transform Your Habits

Circles of Hell

Dante Alighieri , Robin Kirkpatrick

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Gooseberries and other stories

Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Terrors of the Night

Thomas Nashe

2.28

Transform Your Habits

How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing

Michel de Montaigne

3.50

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