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Russia 29
allegory - classics - dark - horror - philosophy - religion

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Russia 5
Leonid Andreyev
On the Day of the Crucifixion
absurd - classics - funny - speculative - witty

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Italy 6
Giovanni Carmelo Verga
Rustic Chivalry
affair - classics - manhood

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Germany 7
classics - coming of age - history - manhood

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Czech Republic 2
Franz Kafka
Before the Law
allegory - classics - philosophy

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Russia 7
absurd - classics - funny - Russia - witty

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UK 16
Rudyard Kipling
The Cat that Walked by Himself
animals - classics - kids-fairy-tale - kids-myths

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France 7
Guy de Maupassant
Was It a Dream?
betrayal - classics - ghosts - secret - tragic love

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France 8
Guy de Maupassant
Two Friends
friendship - melancholy - tragedy - war

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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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Russia 8
classics - despair - loneliness - loss - melancholy

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