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Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics)

10 best books like Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (B&N Classics) (Fyodor Dostoyevsky): Nonsense Novels, Sam The Cat Detective, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, Silas Marner and Two Short Stories, The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories (Barnes Noble Classics Series), Six Plays: Peer Gynt / A Doll's House / Ghosts / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

Nonsense Novels
AuthorStephen Leacock
ISBN1590171187
A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel Handler

Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among...
Sam The Cat Detective
AuthorLinda Stewart
ISBN0967507340
There's a funny reason why I read this kids book as an adult.
I originally started reading this book when I was in elementary school, and I really liked it!
One night I had been reading in my bed, and set the book down on the floor before falling asleep.
That night I woke up sick to my stomach, and...
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...
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...
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN1593082533
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.



Published posthumously...
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN1593081006
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 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...
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...
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,...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners
AuthorJames Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, by James Joyce, 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....
Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
This volume contains novels 4 and 5 of the series:
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars

It also contains the Glossary of Names and Terms in the Martian Books

Mars (Barsoom) stories is a saga of 11 novels, picturing a dying Mars (a vision first expressed by writers like Camille...
The Collector's Book of Science Fiction by H.G. Wells
AuthorH.G. Wells
ISBN0890092087
You can now read H.G. Wells' most famous science fiction exactly as it appeared in illustrated popular magazines at the turn of the century.

Presented here in their entirety - with all the original illustrations by leading artists of the day - are novels such as The War of the Worlds, The First...
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
AuthorAlbert Camus
ISBN1400042550
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—1960) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation...
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...
The Collected Stories
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0140274944
"A devastating fine collection of Theroux's short fiction that should establish him among the contemporary masters of the form". -- New York NewsdayWritten over a period of twenty-five years, the more than sixty stories in this volume are funny and sardonic, sensuous and evocative, streaked with...
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0451450698
I'm glad I returned to Asimov's short stories, which I think are his best work. I had read "Nightfall" elsewhere, which unfortunately is not included in this collection but in my option is one of his best. The standout in this anthology for me was "The Last Question" which deals with the beginning/end...
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, Volume I: Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens
AuthorWerner Wilhelm Jaeger
ISBN0195004256
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture.
Volume I describes...
Haircut and Other Stories
AuthorRing Lardner
ISBN0020223447
shazam! i'm reading ring lardner again and this time it really crystallizes for me why i like him so much. it's this voice that always puts me in that barber chair, or pulls up a stool beside me at the bar, this simple and persuasive voice of a master raconteur. i have a serious penchant for this anecdotal...
Poemas
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN8424927621
Amazing poems by an amazing writer.

A Magic Moment I Remember

A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare
I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long...
The Practical Heart: Four Novellas
AuthorAllan Gurganus
ISBN0375727639
In his fictional Falls, North Carolina–a watchful zone of stifling mores–Allan Gurganus’s fond and comical characters risk everything to protect their improbable hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal. Seeking warmth and true connection, they shield themselves and loved ones while...
Kholstomer
AuthorLeo Tolstoy
ISBN1425478719
Die Geschichte des Pferdes namens Leinwandmesser ist keine gängige Tier- oder Gestüterzählung, mit der man kleinen pferdevernarrten Mädchen eine Freude machen kann. Leinwandmesser war früher ein stolzer, schneller Schecke, der aufgrund seiner ungewöhnlichen Fellfärbung immer auffiel...
65 Short Stories
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0905712056
I am not a prolific reader of short stories. I generally cannot read more than 5-7 successive stories at a time. 65 Short Stories has been in my possesion (I happened to find a copy while rummaging my grandfather's cupboard for books)for 3-4 years now and I haven't read more than half of them. But that is...
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