English
UK 17
Oscar Wilde
The Remarkable Rocket
funny - humor - modern classic

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USA 48
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
atmospheric - classics - ghosts - horror - mystery

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USA 5
Stephen Crane
Upturned Face
classics - realism - war

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New Zealand 28
Katherine Mansfield
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
classics - coming of age - death - sisters - witty

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Russia 26
Anton Chekhov
The Lady with the Dog
affair - classics - romance - Russia

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Ireland 7
James Joyce
Eveline
coming of age - father and daughter - realism

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Uruguay 5
Horacio Quiroga
The Feather Pillow
horror - mystery - sickness

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Russia 11
David Bergelson
Impoverished
alienation - classics - family - old age - poverty

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UK 20
Charles Dickens
The Signal-Man
classics - realism - suspense - working class

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UK 7
Lord Byron
Fragment of a Novel
atmospheric - classics - journey - mystery - suspense

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USA 8
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
American culture - classics - horror - madness - obsession - suspense

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France 11
Honoré de Balzac
El Verdugo
classics - history - irony - war

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