Books tagged with Literature[99 found]
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The Pastor's Wife
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A devoted pastor’s wife navigates love, duty, and social expectations in a small community. Through personal trials and quiet reflection, the story explores resilience, compassion, and the delicate balance between selfhood and service.
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The Flag-Raising
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Literature
In a one-room schoolhouse, a spirited teacher and her mischievous pupils plan the village’s first flag-raising. Pranks collide with pride as shy singers, stubborn selectmen, and a reformed scamp pull together for the ceremony. Laughter, scrapes, and a swelling hymn turn a simple pole into a promise—and a small town into a community.
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The Solitary Summer
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A companion to Elizabeth and Her German Garden, written in the same diary-like style.
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A charming and witty diary of a woman’s life in the countryside, this story celebrates nature, solitude, and small pleasures. Through her observations of her garden, neighbors, and daily routines, it captures humor, reflection, and the delight of simple, independent living.
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Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
Categories: Fiction » Literature
An amiable villager wanders into the Catskills, meets mysterious revelers, and drinks himself into an enchanted sleep. He wakes twenty years later to find the Revolution finished, friends vanished, and children grown. In a world he barely recognizes, he must reckon with change, memory, and identity in a tale that blends folklore, gentle humor, and wistful melancholy.
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While the Billy Boils
by Henry Lawson
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A short story collection that depicts life in the Australian bush, particularly among miners, shearers, and itinerant workers.
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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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Tales of Unrest
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A dark and compelling collection exploring human frailty, moral conflict, and the shadows of ambition. Each story delves into tension, guilt, and the consequences of choices, revealing the unsettling complexities of the human heart.
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Literature
The story revolves around a seemingly unremarkable man who owns a small shop and lives with his wife Winnie, her mentally disabled brother and their mother.
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Amy Foster
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A haunting tale of a shipwrecked immigrant washed ashore in a remote English village. Struggling with isolation and prejudice, he finds solace in the kind but simple Amy. Their love, tested by cultural divides and unspoken fears, unfolds against a stark coastal backdrop, revealing the fragility of human connection and the heart-wrenching cost of misunderstanding in a world of strangers.
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A voyage up the Congo River exposes the darkness at the heart of both empire and human nature. Through danger, moral ambiguity, and psychological tension, this haunting tale explores greed, power, and the thin line between civilization and savagery.
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The Decameron- Volume II
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A group of young nobles flee plague-stricken Florence to a villa over ten days they tell 100 tales of love, trickery, lust, and fortune, from bawdy pranks and clever wives to tragic devotion and saintly frauds. Their storytelling becomes a shelter and a mirror of a world remade by wit, desire, and survival—where laughter is a cure and every night promises another surprise.
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The Decameron- Volume I
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A group of young nobles flee plague-stricken Florence to a villa over ten days they tell 100 tales of love, trickery, lust, and fortune, from bawdy pranks and clever wives to tragic devotion and saintly frauds. Their storytelling becomes a shelter and a mirror of a world remade by wit, desire, and survival—where laughter is a cure and every night promises another surprise.
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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 Duel and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Rivals in a sun-blasted Caucasus outpost trade insults until honor demands a pistol dawn, while elsewhere clerks, doctors, and dreamers stumble through love, cowardice, and small salvations. These sharply observed tales probe conscience and self-deception with quiet humor and sudden cruelty, revealing how ordinary lives tilt toward ruin—or mercy—on a single choice.
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