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10 best books like The Essential Tales of Chekhov (Anton Chekhov): R.U.R., A Country Doctor's Notebook, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Collected Stories, Moonlight Shadow, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story, Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust, Hills Like White Elephants, Sonny's Blues

R.U.R.
AuthorKarel Čapek
ISBN0486419266
R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt,...
A Country Doctor's Notebook
AuthorMikhail Bulgakov
ISBN1860461654
Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of freezing rural Russia which, in 1916-17,...
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0684843323
THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,"...
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0803720017
Bitterly, the weaver sighed,
And the cook in passion cried,
Full of jealousy and hate
Of their sister's happy fate.
- Alexander Pushkin
Human beings are complex creatures. We can love and hate with the same energy. When we meet a cruel person, we call him “inhuman”. Because...
The Collected Stories
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0375405496
Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted,...
Moonlight Shadow
AuthorBanana Yoshimoto
ISBN8858851056
C'è un giorno, un giorno soltanto, in cui in condizioni particolari è possibile rivedere i propri cari defunti. Dicono che qualcuno è pure in grado di sentirli e parlar loro. Che sia possibile per Satsuki, che non riesce in alcun modo a scordare il ragazzo perduto, e Hiiragi, che per ricordare Yumiko...
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
AuthorElaine Brown
ISBN0385471076
elaine brown was appointed charperson of the black panther party in the 70s, after huey p. newton was sent packing off to jail again. she headed up the party during a fractious period in its history. she was responsible for dismantling national offices & bringing the focus of the party back to oakland,...
Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
AuthorNathanael West
ISBN0811202151
Miss Lonelyhearts

Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned to write the agony column, to answer the letters from Desperate, Sick-of-It-All, Disillusioned. A joke at first; but then he was caught up, terrifyingly, in a vision of suffering, and he sought...
Hills Like White Elephants
AuthorErnest Hemingway
A couple. A bar. A health condition of some sort. And a small research done by a reader to understand what was going on, exactly. Mere descriptions of actions and dialogue were not enough. But the reader doesn't blame the author for her lack of perception. A detached author that seems to barely know them....
Sonny's Blues
AuthorJames Baldwin
ISBN3125765005
I guess Sonny's Blues is OK if you like that sort of thing. In this case, that sort of thing being nearly perfectly crafted fiction. That sort of thing being a story that's so universal and so timeless that it can be felt by any and everybody on the face of the earth. This sort of thing being the kind of story...
West of Sunset
AuthorStewart O'Nan
ISBN0670785954
A “rich, sometimes heartbreaking” (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins,...
Black Snow
AuthorMikhail Bulgakov
A masterpiece of black comedy by the author of The Master and Margarita.
When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise - and the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theater, and Maxudov...
Pushkin: A Biography
AuthorT.J. Binyon
ISBN1400076528
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate...
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0140446753
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. "The Tales of Belkin", his first prose...
Tales of Belkin
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN1933633735
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.

First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory...
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0393003043
The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest...
I Am Not Ashamed
AuthorBarbara Payton
ISBN0870671081
One of the great "lost" autobiographies of Hollywood Babylon history, I Am Not Ashamed is the memoir of Barbara Payton, the 1950s film noir star who acted alongside greats like Jimmy Cagney and Gregory Peck - only to be fired by the studios for her wild (and very public) love-life... and ultimately walk...
The Resistance Man
AuthorMartin Walker
ISBN0385349548
Bruno Courrèges—provincial French police chief extraordinaire—is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne.

A veteran of the Resistance dies, and among his possessions are documents that connect him to a notorious...
Almost, Maine
AuthorJohn Cariani
I was a young man working the night shift in a gigantic hotel and the aging night auditor was a chain smoking Egyptian. He was near enough to retirement to be cactus-y inside and out. We liked each other right away and he mentored me in his own fashion.
“Do you read plays?"
“No."
“Really?!...
R.U.R. and The Insect Play
AuthorJosef Čapek
ISBN0192810103
Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother in composing sketches, stories, and plays,...
Преступление и наказание (Полное собрание сочинений Book 5)
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
Том 5. В 5-м томе собранных произведений Ф. М. Достоевского был опубликован роман «Преступление и наказание», впервые опубликованный в журнале «Русский...
Преступление и наказание
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN5911816512
Чем дальше, тем глубже убеждён, что либо мы были действительно потерянным поколением, и в том возрасте, в котором предыдущие поколения могли адекватно...
DNA
AuthorDennis Kelly
ISBN1840028408
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where’s the incentive to put things right? DNA is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very...
Cele zece iubiri ale lui Nishino
AuthorHiromi Kawakami
ISBN9734653784
Cartea lui Hiromi Kawakami cuprinde marturisirile a zece femei si tot atitea povestiri din care, pornind de la frinturi de amintiri, cititorii pot recompune personalitatea fascinanta, greu de prins, magnetica a unui barbat. Fie ca este vorba despre legaturi adolescentine sau din amiaza vietii,...
Aliens & Anorexia
AuthorChris Kraus
ISBN1584350016
As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for softening the landscape. The world becomes more beautiful when God is in it. Here is what happens inside a person's body when they starve.Written in the shadow of Georg Buchner's Lenz at razor pitch, Aliens &...
Oola
AuthorBrittany Newell
ISBN1250114144
In an isolated cabin on the California coast, a writer’s obsession with a lithe conservatory dropout takes a dangerous turn; a knockout of a debut from a brilliant twenty-one-year-old newcomer

The first thing Leif notices about Oola is the sharp curve of her delicate shoulders, tensed...
Your Duck is My Duck
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
My friend read a collection of this author's short stories, and it was her reaction that got me looking for one. The price was right for this one: 99¢ on Kindle. There's probably an automatic way to find the page count; my estimate is 28 pages.

I am going to say something on the meaning of the title....
West of Eden: An American Place
AuthorJean Stein
ISBN0812998405
An epic oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
 
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with...
Birthday Stories
AuthorHaruki Murakami
ISBN1843431599
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami,and ...
Birthday Stories is a 2002 short story anthology edited by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Despite the theme's happy connotations most of the short stories have a dark, melancholic atmosphere.
Introduction:...
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