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Books like Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]
Loved Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales] by Charles Lamb? 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
Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.
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Exhalation
Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.
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A Dog of Flanders
Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908) wrote many popular novels of adventure and romance in the 1870s and 80s under the pen name of Ouida. She also produced a number of captivating stories for youngste
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Christmas Books (Battle of Life
A collection of five stories about Christmas by English author Charles Dickens.
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Sketches by Boz
How much is conveyed in those two short words - 'The Parish!' And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful kn
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
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Mosses from an Old Manse
"The Old Manse" (1846) Birth-Mark (1843) "A Select Party" (1844) Young Goodman Brown (1835) "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844) "Mrs. Bullfrog" (1837) "Fire-Worship" (1843) "Buds and Bird-Voices" (1843) "M
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Fairy Tales and Stories
Many of these stories for children are famous the world over. 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ice Maiden', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Snow Queen', 'Thumbelina', 'The Steadfast Tin S
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Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales uses the Greek classics as its source. Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken the most striking and exciting ones and adapted them for children. From the original stories he has selected episo
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Our Old Home
Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of E