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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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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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UK 21
D.H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner
classics - irony - money - realism - tragedy

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France 48
Gustave Flaubert
A Simple Soul
classics - realism

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Russia 11
Leo Tolstoy
After the Dance
love - realism - Russia - violence

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Uruguay 10
Horacio Quiroga
The Decapitated Chicken
classics - family - horror - realism

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Spain 7
Miguel de Unamuno
Batrachophiles and Batrachophobes
absurd - classics - funny - political - satire

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Czech Republic 4
Jaroslav Hašek
How I Met the Author of My Obituary
classics - funny - macabre - satire - witty

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Czech Republic 6
Jaroslav Hašek
The Emperor Franz Joseph’s Portrait
absurd - classics - funny - history - political - witty

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USA 20
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Prophetic Pictures
classics - psychological - realism

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