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7 best short stories - Orientalism

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In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West. In particular, Orientalist painting, depicting more specifically "the Middle East".

Check out the stories with this theme selected by the critic August Nemo:

- The Rajah's Treasure by H. G. Wells

- The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

- Tajima by Miss Mitford

- A Chinese Girl Graduate by R. K. Douglas

- The Revenge Of Her Race by Mary Beaumont

- King Billy Of Ballarat by Morley Roberts

- Thy Heart's Desire by Netta Syrett

For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!



  1. 3 books to know Totalitarian Dystopias

    George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Yevgeny Zamyatin, August Nemo

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  2. 7 best short stories - Halloween

    W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo

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  3. 7 best short stories - Victorian Romance

    William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo

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  4. Two classic novels INTJ will love

    Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo

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  5. 7 short stories that INTJ will love

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marcus Aurelius, O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, August Nemo

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  6. Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Children's literature 2 : Volume 12

    Selma Lagerlöf, Hans Christian Andersen, Eleanor H. Porter, Wilhelm Hauff, George MacDonald, August Nemo

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  7. 7 Best Short Stories by Algernon Blackwood

    Algernon Blackwood, August Nemo

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  8. 7 best short stories - Black Authors

    Frederick Douglass, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Machado de Assis, Alexandre Dumas, Frances Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, August Nemo

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  9. 3 Libros para Conocer El Comunismo

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, León Trotsky, José Carlos Mariátegui, August Nemo

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  10. Essential Novelists - George Orwell : A voice gainst totalitarianism

    George Orwell, August Nemo

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  11. Essential Novelists - Olaf Stapledon

    Olaf Stapledon, August Nemo

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  12. Ensayos

    José Martí, August Nemo

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  1. 7 best short stories - Boxing

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo

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  2. 7 best short stories - Ghost Stories

    Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo

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  3. 7 best short stories - Russian Authors

    Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo

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  4. 7 best short stories - Halloween

    W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo

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  5. 7 best short stories - Christmas

    Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, August Nemo

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  6. 7 best short stories - Morality Tales

    Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo

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  7. 7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day

    Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, O. Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo

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  8. 7 best short stories - American Civil War

    Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Thomas Nelson Page, August Nemo

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  9. 7 best short stories - World War I

    Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo

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  10. 7 best short stories - Feminist Fiction

    August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit

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  11. 7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories

    George Ade, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo

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  12. 7 best short stories - Victorian Romance

    William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo

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