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Books like Queen Lucia
Loved Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from short stories, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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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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Nonsense novels
“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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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 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
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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A Thief in the Night
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
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
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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The Olive Fairy Book (Complete & Unabridged)
Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.
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Three Lives
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