Genre :: Short Stories (25 books)

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  #177

  Dubliners

  by James Joyce

  (7 Reviews)

  112 Points

  "The Sisters - There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.An encounter: It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us.Araby: North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet..."

  

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  #178

  Ficciones

  by Jorge Luis Borges

  (1 Review)

  112 Points

  "I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."

  

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  #190

  Men Without Women

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (2 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Manuel Garcia climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana's office. (THE UNDEFEATED)."

  

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  #194

  In Our Time

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight."

  

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  #210

  The Complete Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  95 Points

  "Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick."

  

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  #219

  Winesburg, Ohio

  by Sherwood Anderson

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the..."

  

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  #223

  The Canterbury Tales

  by Geoffrey Chaucer

  (11 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "When the sweet showers of April have pierced/ The drought of March, and pierced it to the root,/ And every vein is bathed in that moisture/ Whose quickening force will engender the flower;/ And..."

  

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  #246

  In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories

  by William H. Gass

  (1 Review)

  85 Points

  

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  #263

  Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  by Joan Didion

  (3 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country."

  

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  #280

  Sixty Stories

  by Donald Barthelme

  (1 Review)

  76 Points

  

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