English
USA 23
Daniel Mason
Death of the Pugilist (Or, the famous battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw)
Great Britain - history - poverty - suspense - working class

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USA 20
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Prophetic Pictures
classics - psychological - realism

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UK 42
Henry James
The Real Thing
classics - realism

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USA 16
Claire Vaye Watkins
The Last Thing We Need
confession - epistolary - fatherhood - guilt - mystery

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USA 18
Elizabeth McCracken
Some Terpsichore
female authors - music - relationships - violence

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USA 16
O. Henry
The Ransom of Red Chief
American culture - classics - funny - irony

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USA 28
Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter
American literature - classics - detective - mystery - plot twist

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9
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Alcoholic Case
classics - melancholy - realism

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USA 32
Herman Melville
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
American culture - American literature - classics - political

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USA 9
Tillie Olsen
I Stand Here Ironing
female authors - memories - mother and daughter - motherhood

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USA 15
Phil Klay
Ten Kliks South
Al-Qaeda - guilt - realism - soldiers - war - witty

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USA 8
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
classics - irony - love - melancholy

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