Books tagged with Literature[47 found]
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While the Billy Boils
by Henry Lawson
Categories: Fiction » Literature
In the sun-scorched Australian bush and shabby city lanes, swagmen, drovers, barmaids, and battlers swap yarns of drought, drink, mateship, and quiet heartbreak. These sharply observed sketches blend rough humor with stark poverty, revealing how stubborn pride, compassion, and dry wit sustain ordinary people on the ragged edge of survival.
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Children of the Bush
by Henry Lawson
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Amid the harsh beauty of the Australian outback, wanderers, settlers, and dreamers carve out their lives with grit and humor. These vivid tales capture the loneliness, camaraderie, and quiet heroism of those who endure the bush, revealing the soul of a land both unforgiving and deeply human.
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Over the Sliprails
by Henry Lawson
Categories: Fiction » Literature
From backblocks pubs to drought-scarred homesteads, these linked tales follow swagmen, shearers, station hands, and the women who keep the pots boiling. With dry wit and sudden pathos, they face loneliness, mateship, bad luck, and small mercies, revealing a continent’s hard beauty—and the stubborn heart it forges along the sliprails.
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Mashi and Other Stories
by Rabindranath Tagore
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A collection of evocative stories exploring human emotions, culture, and the complexities of everyday life. Through love, loss, and moral dilemmas, the tales illuminate the subtleties of relationships, the beauty of simplicity, and the depth of human experience across diverse settings.
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The Lovely Lady
by Mary Austin
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Set against a vivid natural backdrop, this story explores love, resilience, and the complexities of human relationships. Its rich characters and lyrical storytelling reveal the beauty and hardships of life intertwined with personal growth and emotional discovery.
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The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett- Volume 2
by Sarah Orne Jewett
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A continuation of vivid tales celebrating rural life, friendship, and the natural world. Through sensitive observation and warm storytelling, each story explores human relationships, compassion, and the enduring charm of everyday experiences.
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The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett- Volume 1
by Sarah Orne Jewett
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A collection of evocative stories capturing small-town life, friendship, and the rhythms of nature. With gentle observation and rich detail, each tale explores human kindness, community, and the quiet beauty of everyday moments.
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The Party and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A collection of finely crafted tales capturing the nuances of human behavior, social life, and personal longing. Through subtle observation and empathy, each story reveals the humor, tragedy, and complexity of everyday existence.
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The Bishop and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
On the eve of Easter, a fading churchman confronts illness, memory, and the thin line between reverence and regret. Around him unfold spare, luminous portraits—clerks trapped by routine, lovers at crossroads, peasants wrestling with duty—each story turning on a small, piercing moment when life tilts and truth slips through: quiet, humane, and unforgettable.
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The Darling and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Olenka, nicknamed “the Darling,” lives by echoing the men she loves—actor, manager, vet—taking their opinions as her own until loss leaves her startlingly voiceless. Around this piercing portrait gather brief tales of clerks, peasants, and doctors where humor flickers through fatigue, pride meets kindness, and ordinary lives reveal the fragile bargains we make to be loved.
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The Witch and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A coachman’s wife accused of sorcery, jealous husbands, weary priests, petty officials and ruined dreamers move through bleak fields and snowbound villages. In brief, piercing tales of temptation, spite, tenderness and regret, ordinary people stumble into moments of revelation that wound—and sometimes awaken—their souls beneath an indifferent winter sky.
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The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Across provincial Russia, petty thieves, timid clerks, and weary doctors collide in moments where character is tested: a horse stolen at dawn, a shabby wedding gone wrong, charity that humiliates, love misread, pride exposed. With quiet humor and sudden cruelty, these brief tales reveal how ordinary lives veer toward folly, kindness, or regret on a single careless choice.
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The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
From kitchens and courtyards to hospitals and backwater stations, these brief tales catch ordinary Russians at their most comic, stubborn, and achingly human. A bullied cook faces marriage, petty clerks dream too loudly, doctors misread hearts. With swift, surgical turns, cruelty and kindness trade places, and quiet moments flare into truths you feel long after the last page.
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The Wife and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
An uneasy husband, trapped in a stale marriage and sudden crisis, must decide whether to cling to comfort or answer a moral call beyond his home. Around him unfold other quiet dramas of doctors, dreamers and widows, where small choices, missed words and fleeting mercies reshape ordinary Russian lives, asking whether tenderness can survive pride, fatigue and time.
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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
An overworked village teacher endures a bitter journey that exposes bureaucratic cruelty, petty gossip, and the ache of dignity. Around her, clerks, doctors, peasants, and dreamers stumble through love affairs, illnesses, and small temptations. With quiet humor and sudden pity, these stories reveal how ordinary lives tilt toward shame, mercy, or resignation on a single day.
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Daisy Miller: A Study
by Henry James
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A free-spirited American girl captivates European high society with her bold charm, defying rigid conventions. Her flirtations with a dashing Italian spark scandal and intrigue, testing the bounds of propriety. Set in picturesque Rome and Switzerland, this sharp tale probes cultural clashes, innocence, and the price of nonconformity in a world bound by judgment.
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Little Mexican And Other Stories
by Aldous Huxley
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A compelling collection of stories exploring human nature, society, and moral dilemmas. Through vivid characters and thought-provoking scenarios, it examines courage, desire, and the complexities of life with insight, wit, and subtle social commentary.
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Limbo
by Aldous Huxley
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A darkly satirical exploration of human nature, desire, and society, it follows characters confronting moral ambiguity and existential challenges. Through wit, insight, and sharp observation, the story examines the tensions between instinct, intellect, and the search for meaning.
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Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A sweeping tale of poverty, injustice, and resilience, it follows a young woman navigating the hardships of debt, family secrets, and social inequality. Amid trials and unexpected twists, courage, integrity, and love guide her through a world both harsh and deeply human.
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The Portrait of a Lady— Volume 1
by Henry James
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A headstrong American arrives in Europe determined to live widely, not wisely. In drawing rooms from Albany to Florence she dazzles cousins and suitors, refuses safe marriages, and, after an unexpected inheritance, becomes prey to subtler designs. Friends warn, flatterers scheme, and a cultivated stranger beckons, as freedom itself becomes the most dangerous temptation.
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