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Books like The Olive Fairy Book (Complete & Unabridged)

Loved The Olive Fairy Book (Complete & Unabridged) by Andrew Lang? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from short stories, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Interpreter of Maladies

    Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 · Short Stories

    Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.

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    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang · 2019 · Short Stories

    Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.

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    A Thief in the Night

    E. W. Hornung · 1905 · Short Stories

    First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. In public a popular sp

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    The Gods of Pegāna

    Lord Dunsany · 1905 · Short Stories

    The Gods of Pegāna, Lord Dunsany’s first published book, is a strange and wondrous creation. In it he creates the pantheon of gods who rule over the titular world. The prose alternates between being b

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    The Mirror of Kong Ho

    Ernest Bramah · 1905 · Short Stories

    A lively and amusing set of stories, constructed as a series of letters dealing with the oddities and eccentricities of the West, purportedly written by Kong Ho, a Chinese man visiting early 20th cent

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    Three Lives

    Gertrude Stein · 1909 · Short Stories

    Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and

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    Nonsense novels

    Stephen Leacock · 1900 · Short Stories

    “The author of this book offers it to the public without apology,” Leacock boldly asserts in the Preface before launching into a slew of riotous stories. In this book you’ll find:Maddened by Mystery:

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    Queen Lucia

    E. F. Benson · 1900 · Short Stories

    Lucia is the social queen of the small English village of Riseholme, where everyone is in everyone else's business; where Daisy and Lucia compete to have the best parties, to be the best hostess, to i

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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

    Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 · Short Stories

    Contains: - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Scandal in Bohemia Red-Headed League Case of Identity Boscombe Valley Mystery Five Orange Pips Man with the Twisted Lip Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Advent

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    The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    Beatrix Potter · 1900 · Short Stories

    One of the best known and loved children's stories is the story of naughty Peter Rabbit and his misadventures as he is chased around a garden.

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