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Books like The Dolly dialogues

Loved The Dolly dialogues by Anthony Hope? 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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    Life's handicap, being stories of mine own people

    Rudyard Kipling · 1891 · Short Stories

    Life's Handicap contains twenty-seven stories about the experience of the British in India. Contents: The Lang Men O' Larut, Reingelder and the German Flag, The Wandering Jew, Through the Fire, The Fi

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    Main-travelled roads

    Hamlin Garland · 1891 · Short Stories

    Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening ret

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    Dream days

    Kenneth Grahame · 1898 · Short Stories

    Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nouri

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    Stalky and Co

    Rudyard Kipling · 1898 · Short Stories

    This is a collection of short stories about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It was originally published in a series of stories in a magazine, then published in book form in 1899.

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    Plain tales from the hills

    Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · Short Stories

    Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent Englis

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    A Garland for Girls

    Louisa May Alcott · 1887 · Short Stories

    This is a series of vignettes by Louisa May Alcott that illustrate the idea by Sir Philip Sidney that "They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." The reader is introduced to sever

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    Indian Summer

    William Dean Howells · 1885 · Short Stories

    William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspaper publisher. Now he sells his b

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    A Tangled Tale

    Lewis Carroll · 1881 · Short Stories

    In the late 19th century, Lewis Carroll—better known these days as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—was also an established mathematician who had published many books and papers in the f

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