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Books like A Garland for Girls
Loved A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott? 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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Plain tales from the hills
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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Indian Summer
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
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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The American Claimant
The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.
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The Dolly dialogues
"There's ingratitude for you!" Miss Dolly Foster exclaimed suddenly.
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Life's handicap, being stories of mine own people
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
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'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