8 Top short stories books like Bisclavret by Marie de France

Bisclavret

By: Marie de France

3.96

Format: None pages, None

On sait peu de choses de Marie de France. Elle écrit depuis l'Angleterre anglo-normande (d'où la pr…

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Cover of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. A: Middle Ages by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, James Simpson, Alfred David

1. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. A: Middle Ages

By: M.H. Abrams , Stephen Greenblatt , James Simpson , Alfred David

3.96

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introducto… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Daisy Miller by Henry James

2. Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

3.37

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

Cover of Everyman by Anonymous, Unknown

3. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Robert Graves, Thomas Malory, Keith Baines

4. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

By: Robert Graves , Thomas Malory , Keith Baines

3.92

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Presents the story of King Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, and his tra… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
  • medieval
  • fantasy
"Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will never be sorry for me as I am for you"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cr…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

"...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished…"

-Robert Graves, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

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5. Jacob's Room

By: Virginia Woolf

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"One must love everything."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"Marvelous are the innocent. "

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"But language is wine upon his lips"

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"It is no use trying to sum people up."

-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Cover of The Bacchae by Euripides, Kenneth McLeish, None

6. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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7. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"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

Cover of Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Fowler Haywood

8. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
Cover of The Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Tolkien, Nevill Coghill

9. The Nun's Priest's Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Christopher Tolkien , Nevill Coghill

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Beowulf by Unknown, Seamus Heaney

10. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

Cover of The Miller's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, James Winny

11. The Miller's Prologue and Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , James Winny

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • medieval
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12. The Judgement

By: Franz Kafka

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"The judgment" is considered the most autobiographical of Kafka's stories. First, there are Kafka's… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Faerie Queene, Book One by Edmund Spenser, Andrew Hadfield, None, None, None

13. The Faerie Queene, Book One

By: Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of S… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter G. Beidler

14. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
  • school
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • medieval
Cover of The King of Elfland's Daughter by Neil Gaiman, Lord Dunsany

15. The King of Elfland's Daughter

By: Neil Gaiman , Lord Dunsany

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the mos… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction

16. A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more

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17. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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18. The Book of Margery Kempe

By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more

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19. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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20. Sir Orfeo

By: Unknown , Edward E. Hunt

2.75

Format: None pages,

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21. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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22. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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23. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

By: Andrés Reséndez

3.68

Format: None pages,

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24. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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25. Three Lives

By: Gertrude Stein

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The literary theories of American expatriate Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) strongly influenced a gener… read more

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26. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more

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27. The Dream of the Rood

By: Michael James Swanton , Cynewulf

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greate… read more

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28. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Burton Raffel , None

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers t… read more

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29. Bisclavret

By: Marie de France

3.96

Format: None pages, None

On sait peu de choses de Marie de France. Elle écrit depuis l'Angleterre anglo-normande (d'où la pr… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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  • werewolves
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  • france
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  • horror
  • medieval
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wife's Lament by Richard Hamer

30. The Wife's Lament

By: Richard Hamer

3.49

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

The Wife's Lament is an Old English poem of 53 lines found in the Exeter Book and generally treated… read more

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  • poetry
  • medieval
  • classics
  • school
Cover of The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov

31. The Lady with the Little Dog

By: Anton Chekhov

3.72

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
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"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"

-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog

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3.96

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3.37

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3.27

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3.77

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3.71

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