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USA 23
W. E. B. Du Bois
Of the Coming of John
American culture - American literature - class-gap - coming of age - death

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USA 20
alienation - allegory - American culture - American literature - death - speculative

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USA 19
W. E. B. Du Bois
Princess Steel
American literature - atmospheric - speculative

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USA 39
Ellen Glasgow
The Shadowy Third
American literature - atmospheric - death - female authors - horror - mystery - unrequited love

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USA 39
Ellen Glasgow
The Past
American literature - atmospheric - death - female authors - horror - mystery

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USA 19
Zelda Fitzgerald
A Couple Of Nuts
American literature - atmospheric - classics - death - female authors - love

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USA 11
American literature - atmospheric - classics - death - female authors - loneliness - love - melancholy - unrequited love

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
American culture - American literature - classics - coming of age - irony

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USA 5
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
American culture - American literature - classics - love - relationships

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USA 8
Ernest Hemingway
In Another Country
American literature - classics - death - manhood - memories - war

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USA 11
Ernest Hemingway
The Killers
American culture - American literature - classics - manhood - violence

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USA 12
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Unnatural Mother
American culture - American literature - classics - death - female authors - mother and daughter - motherhood

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