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Books like Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow
Loved Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving? 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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The Man Without a Country
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr.
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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
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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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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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The American Claimant
The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.
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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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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 Garland for Girls
This is a series of vignettes by Louisa May Alcott that illustrate the idea by Sir Philip Sidney that "They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." The reader is introduced to sever