English
Scotland 10
Robert Louis Stevenson
Husband and Wife
journey - love - relationships

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UK 15
W.W. Jacobs
The Monkey’s Paw
classics - horror - suspense

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Denmark 4
Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Match Girl
Christmas - classics - fairy-tale - melancholy - poverty

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USA 4
Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour
classics - female authors

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Uruguay 6
classics - father and son - horror - suspense

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Italy 5
Giovanni Boccaccio
Roussillon’s heart
absurd - animals - classics

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Uruguay 10
Horacio Quiroga
The Decapitated Chicken
classics - family - horror - realism

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Spain 7
Miguel de Unamuno
Batrachophiles and Batrachophobes
absurd - classics - funny - political - satire

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Czech Republic 4
Jaroslav Hašek
How I Met the Author of My Obituary
classics - funny - macabre - satire - witty

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Czech Republic 6
Jaroslav Hašek
The Emperor Franz Joseph’s Portrait
absurd - classics - funny - history - political - witty

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

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China 2
Lieh Tzu
The Deer in the Dream
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