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10 best books like Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales (Herman Melville): The First Forty-Nine Stories, The New Negro, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York, Novels in Three Lines, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway, Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics)

The First Forty-Nine Stories
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0099339218
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and...
The New Negro
AuthorAlain LeRoy Locke
ISBN0684838311
From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.

With stunning works by seminal black voices...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York
AuthorStephen Crane
ISBN0140437975
"A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago."—Alfred Kazin.
Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized genius in the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,...
Novels in Three Lines
AuthorFélix Fénéon
ISBN1590172302
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL

Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This...
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1593080018
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1593080905
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN1593082304
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
AuthorCorinne Demas
ISBN1593080867
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural...
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories
AuthorGeorge Eliot
ISBN1593082517
George Eliot’s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man’s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of the family.

The story opens as Silas Marner, falsely accused of theft, loses everything, including his faith in God. Embittered and...
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics)
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN1593080379
Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted...
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories (Barnes Noble Classics Series)
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1593080433
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras....
Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN1593080611
The father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen shook off the stale conventions of nineteenth-century theater and made the stage play an instrument for brilliantly illuminating the dark recesses of human nature.
After writing historical plays and imaginative epic dramas in verse, such as Peer Gynt,...
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
AuthorLarry McCaffery
ISBN0822311682
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture...
Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0517457512

Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant is part of the  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes &...
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
AuthorSarah Orne Jewett
ISBN0451527577
In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable...
Inquisiciones
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN9507310746
«Este que llamo Inquisiciones (por aliviar alguna vez la palabra de sambenitos y humareda) es ejecutoria parcial de mis veinticinco años. El resto cabe en un manojo de salmos, en el " Fervor de Buenos Aires " y en un cartel que las esquinas de Callao publicaron. [...] Yo no sé si hay literatura, pero...
Why Write?
AuthorPaul Auster
ISBN1886224145
There is an essay at the end of Joy Williams' book 'Ill Nature' that I believe is called 'Why I Write'. Some of these short essays in Paul Auster's 'Why Write' remind me of that Joy Williams' piece. Both are well worth the read.

While there is a place for books like Strunk and White in the writer's...
El matadero / La cautiva
AuthorEsteban Echeverría
ISBN9583001023
La acción de El matadero se sitúa en la década de 1830, durante la dictadura de Juan Manuel Rosas en Argentina y ha de entenderse la concepción y el objetivo primero de este texto como un ataque al dictador. En la primera parte, se describe el funcionamiento de un matadero de reses con una sucesión...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
AuthorNellie Y. McKay
ISBN0393977781
Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.

This landmark anthology includes...
Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson
AuthorHunter S. Thompson
ISBN0141022434
High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson's brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom...
The Springs of Affection
AuthorMaeve Brennan
ISBN0395937590
These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns as intricate and various as Irish lace. "Maeve Brennan's book is full of small miracles," wrote the New York Times Book Review. "The magnificent title story is wide-ranging, savage, poignant, and should...
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