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USA 18
Amy Gustine
Goldene Medene
American literature - dark - immigration - loneliness

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USA 42
Stephen Crane
The Blue Hotel
classics - existentialism - suspense - violence

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USA 28
Jack London
To Build a Fire
adventures - animals - classics - realism

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USA 9
American culture - classics

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

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USA 13
Steven Schwartz
Seeing Miles
coming of age - memories - young love

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USA 5
Stephen Crane
Upturned Face
classics - realism - war

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USA 10
Idra Novey
The Last Summer of Our Patriarch
existentialism - family - mystery - psychological

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

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USA 17
Todd Hasak-Lowy
The Aspiring Idiot
absurd - funny - sex - writing

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USA 19
Ring Lardner
Haircut
American literature - atmospheric - classics - funny

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USA 6
Breece D'J Pancake
Time and Again
fatherhood - memories - suspense - the outskirts

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