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10 best books like The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories (Charlotte Perkins Gilman): Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, The Stories of J.F. Powers, The Two of Them, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales, A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women, French Decadent Tales, Tales of Henry James, White Stains - Anaïs Nin & Friends (Delectus Classics of Erotic Literature), Bluebeard, Great Short Stories by American Women

Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
AuthorDorothy Parker
ISBN0743211480
During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Between 1926 and 1933 she collected most of these pieces in three volumes...
The Stories of J.F. Powers
AuthorJ.F. Powers
ISBN0940322226
Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories,...
The Two of Them
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0819567604
Irene, a rebellious product of an American 1950s upbringing, has fled from a repressive and sexist society into a life of apparent equality and adventure as part of the elite Trans-Temporal Authority's cadre of travelers. Under the tutelage of Ernst, a friend/lover and teacher/father, Irene has...
Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
AuthorNenia Campbell

Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.


In Wishing...
A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0446677426
These ten classic stories, each featuring well-developed, strong female characters, have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction.

Contents:
Inertia / Nancy Kress
Even the Queen / Connie Willis
Fool's Errand / Sarah Zettel
Rachel...
French Decadent Tales
AuthorStephen Romer
ISBN0199569274
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral...
Tales of Henry James
AuthorHenry James
ISBN0393977102
"The Author on His Craft" again reprints James s critical essay "The Art of Fiction" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new passage on "In the Cage." "Criticism" has been entirely updated and includes ten new essays by critics who during the last twenty-five years have helped to establish...
White Stains - Anaïs Nin & Friends (Delectus Classics of Erotic Literature)
AuthorAnaïs Nin
ISBN1897767110
This collection of six sensual, yet explicit short stories is thought to have been written for an Oklahoma oil millionaire, Roy M. Johnson. Anais Nin is said to have paid a dollar per page to produce typescripts of explicit erotica for his own private amusement. In 'Alice' a couple spying on another couple...
Bluebeard
AuthorAngela Carter
ISBN0141195886
'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.'

Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains,...
Great Short Stories by American Women
AuthorCandace Ward
ISBN0486287769
Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. The earliest stories are Rebecca Harding Davis' naturalistic "Life in the Iron Mills" (published in 1861 and predating Émile...
Elizabeth: Virgin Queen?
AuthorPhilippa Jones
ISBN1847735150
'Gloriana', 'Faerie Queen', 'Queen Bess', are just some of the names given to Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. But the name for which she is perhaps most remembered and which best explains why Elizabeth was the last of the Tudor monarchs, was the "Virgin Queen.'

But how...
Imperfect Spirituality: Extraordinary Enlightenment for Ordinary People
AuthorPolly Campbell
ISBN1936740184
Pulling a raisin out of a two-year-old's nose probably wasn't on Buddha's path toward enlightenment, but it was one of the obstacles for author Polly Campbell. For many, stuck raisins and other real-life moments provide sometimes the only opportunity for spiritual growth in a day. Imperfect Spirituality...
Ethics of Sexual Difference
AuthorLuce Irigaray
ISBN0801481457
"Who or what the other is, I never know. But the other who is forever unknowable is the one who differs from me sexually. This feeling of surprise, astonishment, and wonder in the face of the unknowable ought to be returned to its locus: that of sexual difference." Thus Luce Irigaray undertakes a searching...
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
AuthorNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o
ISBN0435901915
This is a beautifully written book about Kenyan Culture and their struggle for independence. It shows how brutal, cheap, manipulative, money monger the white man was. How the capitalists exploited the natives. One of my favourite quotes from the book is

"Two laws. Two justices.One law and...
The Awakening and Other Stories
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN0199536945
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna...
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights
AuthorStephen L. Harris
ISBN0073535672
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights grew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature,...
Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
AuthorToril Moi
ISBN0415280125
What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?
Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations...
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English
AuthorSandra M. Gilbert
ISBN0393968251
This book is a fantastic resource, not just for the literature itself, but really for the chapters the authors wrote the historical/literary context for each era. Those sections alone are worth reading as a sort of separate work from the literature itself.

Another fascinating thing about...
May Day
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN1419133314
Look, we all know that Fitzgerald can knock out a story, so let's just assume that this is pretty well written. The blurb says that this is Fitzgerald's most overtly political story, and I buy that. What I wasn't expecting is how current it felt--reading May Day was exactly like watching old episodes of...
Next World Novella
AuthorMatthias Politycki
ISBN0956284035
Germany's master of wit and irony now for the first time in English.

Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers, only to discover a totally...
Don Quixote (which was a dream)
AuthorKathy Acker
ISBN0802131921
Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing "the most insane idea that any woman can think of. Which is to love.'"

In this visionary world, Don Quixote journeys through American history...
The Mousetrap and Selected Plays
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0006496180
THE MOUSETRAP, the longest-running play in the history of London's West End, begins its 50th Year run on 25 November 2001. This new edition of four works show how Agatha Christie's plays are as compulsive as her novels, their colourful characters and ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of her...
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