14 Top classics books like Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Cover of Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Kew Gardens

By: Virginia Woolf

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was …

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1. The Boarding House (Creative Classic Series)

By: James Joyce

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more

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2. Bliss

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.72

Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback

But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place—that shower of little sparks coming from… read more

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"But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still."

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"¿Es que no puede haber una forma de manifestarlo sin parecer “beodo o trastornado"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

"I am so glad you like them', said he, staring at his feet. 'They seem to have got so much whiter since the moon rose.' And he turned his lean sorrowful long face to Bertha. 'There is a moon, you know…"

-Katherine Mansfield, Bliss

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3. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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4. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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5. The Quicksand

By: Edith Wharton

3.60

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

""The Quicksand"" is a novella written by Edith Wharton, an American author known for her insightfu… read more

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"What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that."

-Edith Wharton, The Quicksand

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6. The Signalman

By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn

3.66

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more

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"Hallow! Below there!"

-Charles Dickens, The Signalman

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7. Araby

By: James Joyce

3.65

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

A short story from James Joyce's Dubliners. The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just… read more

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"My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."

-James Joyce, Araby

"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroo…"

-James Joyce, Araby

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8. A Clean Well Lighted Place

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published… read more

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9. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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10. The Garden Party and Other Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield , Lorna Sage

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a s… read more

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11. Une Partie de Campagne

By: Guy de Maupassant , Henry Gidel , Jean Renoir

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

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12. Miss Brill

By: Katherine Mansfield , Ursula Grawe

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It… read more

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13. Kew Gardens

By: Virginia Woolf

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was … read more

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14. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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15. Happy Endings

By: Margaret Atwood

4.12

Format: 440 pages, ebook

Atwood's short story includes six different stories, labeled A to F, which each quickly summarize t… read more

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16. Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Carme Solé Vendrell

3.54

Format: None pages,

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story that begins with a couple, Pelayo and Elisend… read more

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17. Eveline

By: James Joyce

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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18. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By: T.S. Eliot

4.50

Format: None pages,

Dive deep into The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot anywhere you go: on a plane, on a … read more

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19. The District Doctor

By: Ivan Turgenev

5.00

Format: 228 pages,

ONE day, in autumn, on my way home from the distant fields, I caught cold, and was taken ill. Fortu… read more

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20. På sommarnöje

By: Anton Tjechov

3.52

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

Ett kärleksbrev från en hemlig beundrare, med en vädjan om ett möte i bersån, skickas till Pavel Iv… read more

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21. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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14 Best fiction books like Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Transform Your Habits

The Boarding House (Creative Classic Series)

James Joyce

3.26

Transform Your Habits

Bliss

Katherine Mansfield

3.72

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The Dead

James Joyce

3.99

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A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

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Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

3.83

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Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

4.30

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Araby

James Joyce

3.65

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The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin

4.07

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