Books like Short stories by Luigi Pirandello

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a landmark collection of fifteen short stories set in late‑19th‑century Dublin, capturing ordinary lives and suppressed dreams while exploring themes of lost innocence, paralysis, and the moral fabric of Irish society.

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

A collection of Borges’ short stories that frequently employ the labyrinth as a literary device, probing philosophical and everyday aspects of human life.

A collection of short stories by George Saunders, featuring unforgettable characters and Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is a 14th‑century collection of 100 Italian tales told by ten young people who flee the plague‑ravaged Florence to a villa in Fiesole, each day presenting stories framed by a rule and a closing canzone.

Six tightly drawn short stories by Albert Camus that explore exile, compassion, love, and loneliness in varied settings, from barren deserts to intimate human encounters.

A curated anthology of 49 Ernest Hemingway short stories that captures the intensity of his life, from American society and wartime drama to adventure and social customs, spanning his modernist legacy.

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a collection of Flannery O'Connor's celebrated short stories, set in the American South and exploring the region’s social customs, faith, and moral complexity.

A collection of Japanese short stories by Yasunari Kawabata, translated into English, that explore everyday life, customs, and human emotions.

A selection of Anton Chekhov’s early short stories, showcasing his developing craft with tales such as "The Steppe", "Gusev", "The Kiss", and "The Duel", illustrating his burgeoning voice in Russian literature.

Les contes drôlatiques is a collection of medieval‑themed short stories by Honoré de Balzac, written in archaic French and illustrated by Gustav Dore in early editions published by Garnier Frères.

For students of Luigi Pirandello's life and works, this volume provides a multi-faceted view spanning the many genres in which he wrote, from poetry and essays to fiction and drama. It gives a true sense of Pirandello's remarkable sensitivity to place – from his native Sicily to Germany and Latin America – and of how his perspective was shaped by a wide range of interlocutors with varying professional backgrounds, from contemporary philosophers to fellow playwrights like Bernard Shaw, directors like Max Reinhardt and the actress Marta Abba. Diverse contributors explore the sheer genre-bending originality of Pirandello's humor, metatheatre, and fantastic tales, and reveal how profound shifts in society, culture, and politics in his time – Freud, Futurism, Fascism – conditioned not just his thought but also his meteoric rise to fame. A final section is dedicated to Pirandello's legacy in literature and drama throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Mister Johnson, a lovable African clerk obsessed with English culture, rises and falls in colonial Africa—losing his job, wife, and ultimately his life in a tale that blends humor and pathos.