Realism - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories in the genre of literary realism. Stories that represent reality by portraying everyday experiences as they are in real life. No glitz, no glamour, only life as it truthfully unfolds, sometimes in drama and sometimes in monotony.

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Mexico

Elisa R.V. García

The Square

contemplative - death - melancholy - memories - plot twist

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USA

Jack London

To Build a Fire

adventures - animals - classics - realism

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USA

Steven Schwartz

Seeing Miles

coming of age - memories - young love

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Russia

David Bergelson

Impoverished

alienation - classics - family - old age - poverty

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Germany

Alexander Kluge

I Only Blast Under Written Orders

existentialism - history - war - WWII

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Mexico

José Miguel Tomasena

Sons

American culture - death - father and son - political - violence

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Russia

Anton Chekhov

The Lady with the Dog

affair - classics - romance - Russia

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Ireland

James Joyce

Eveline

coming of age - father and daughter - realism

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France

Honoré de Balzac

El Verdugo

classics - history - irony - war

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Netherlands

Daan Heerma van Voss

Interview With an Assassin

American culture - murder - political - satire

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Charles Dickens

The Signal-Man

classics - realism - suspense - working class

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Ireland

Pádraic Ó Conaire

Nora, daughter of Marcus Beag

classics - father and daughter - history - journey

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