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Books like The secret of Father Brown
Loved The secret of Father Brown 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.
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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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William Wilson
"William Wilson" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale follows the theme o
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Just So Stories
Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.
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Tales of the Jazz Age
Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed nove
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Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes
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Youth and the bright Medusa
Youth and the bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories about artists and the arts.
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The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in
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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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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