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Books like Alarms and discursions
Loved Alarms and discursions by Gilbert Keith Chesterton? 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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Beasts and Super-Beasts
Leonard Bilsiter was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an unseen world of their own experience or imagination - or i
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Little Wizard stories of Oz
Six tales present further the adventures of Dorothy and Toto, Ozma, Tiktok, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Tin Woodman, and other characters from the land of Oz.
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A diversity of creatures
A collection of short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling. These include 'As easy as A.B.C. (A Science Fiction short, set in 2065 AD)', 'Mary Postgate,' and 'The village that voted the earth was flat
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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
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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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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