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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France

Gustave Flaubert

A Simple Soul

classics - realism

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USA

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Prophetic Pictures

classics - psychological - realism

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D.H. Lawrence

Blowing Up Trains

classics - history - political - realism - traveling

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Russia

Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin

The Queen of Spades

classics - horror - plot twist - Russia - suspense

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Poland

Tadeusz Konwicki

Corporal Billygoat and I

classics - history - soldiers - war - WWII

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France

Véronique Bizot

George’s Wife

guilt - murder - revenge

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Israel

Yeshayahu Koren

Barazani

soldiers - war

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Germany

Michael Lentz

Motherdeath

death - melancholy - mother and son - sickness

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USA

Elizabeth McCracken

Some Terpsichore

female authors - music - relationships - violence

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France

Guy de Maupassant

Two Friends

friendship - melancholy - tragedy - war

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Germany

Barbara Honigmann

Double Grave

history - holocaust - philosophy

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Argentina

Tomás Sánchez Bellocchio

Interruption of Service

class-war - funny - guilt - poverty - working class

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