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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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Italy 10
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron: Day the Fifth, The Ninth Story
absurd - classics - love

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USA 12
Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary
classics - funny - religion - satire - witty

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Russia 14
Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin
The Queen of Spades
classics - horror - plot twist - Russia - suspense

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France 11
Guy de Maupassant
The Diamond Necklace
classics - history - irony - money - poverty

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Russia 17
Nikolai Leskov
The Spirit of Madame de Genlis (A Spiritualistic Occurrence)
classics - funny - ghosts - Russia - speculative - witty

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China 2
Pu Sung-ling
The Picture Horse
classics - contemplative - magic - magical realism - philosophy - speculative

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USA 28
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
atmospheric - classics - Gothic - horror - suspense

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UK 42
Henry James
The Real Thing
classics - realism

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