H.H. Munro (Saki)
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The Mouse |
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Sredni Vashtar |
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Louisa May Alcott
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A Country Christmas |
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Kitty's Class Day |
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How I Went Out to Service |
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Scarlet Stockings |
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A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe |
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May Flowers |
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Cruise of the Dolphin |
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Julia Alvarez
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The Daughter of Invention |
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Hans Christian Andersen
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The Little Mermaid |
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Sherwood Anderson
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The Egg |
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Sophistication |
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The Strength of God |
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I Want to Know Why |
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The Dumb Man |
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War |
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Brothers |
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The Other Woman |
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Lucius Apuleius
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Cupid and Psyche |
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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The Devil and Daniel Webster |
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By the Waters of Babylon |
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Ambros Bierce
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My Favourite Murder |
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Ambrose Bierce
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Present at a Hanging |
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A Horseman in the Sky |
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Beyond the Wall |
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The Boarded Window |
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Chickamauga |
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One Summer Night |
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One Of The Missing |
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What I Saw of Shiloh |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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Paul Bowles
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In the Red Room |
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Ray Bradbury
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All Summer in a Day |
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There Will Come Soft Rains |
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The Utterly Perfect Murder |
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The Pedestrian |
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Truman Capote
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A Christmas Memory |
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Raymond Carver
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Everything Stuck to Him |
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Willa Cather
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Paul's Case |
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A Wagner Matinee |
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The Sculptor's Funeral |
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A Death in the Desert |
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Jack-a-Boy |
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The Burglar's Christmas |
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The Garden Lodge |
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Anton Chekhov
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The Bet |
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The Schoolmistress |
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The Shoemaker and the Devil |
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The Lady with the Little Dog |
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A Story Without a Title |
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Grisha |
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A Father |
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Difficult People |
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Old Age |
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Sorrow |
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The Looking-Glass |
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A Joke |
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Small Fry |
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The Student |
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About Love |
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A Dead Body |
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A Bad Business |
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Expensive Lessons |
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A Classical Student |
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A Happy Man |
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A Misfortune |
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The Doctor |
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The Beggar |
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Art |
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Terror |
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Uprooted |
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A Transgression |
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Champagne |
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Easter Eve |
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A Lady's Story |
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The Cossack |
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A Pink Stocking |
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Nerves |
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Darkness |
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The Runaway |
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Children |
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An Upheaval |
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A Trivial Incident |
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Ariadne |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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A Day in the Country |
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A Slander |
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Charles W. Chesnutt
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The Sheriff's Children |
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Kate Chopin
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A Pair of Silk Stockings |
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The Storm |
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The Locket |
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A Reflection |
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A Respectable Woman |
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Desiree's Baby |
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Regret |
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The Story of an Hour |
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Agatha Christie
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Wasps' Nest |
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Richard Connell
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The Most Dangerous Game |
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James Fenimore Cooper
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The Lake Gun |
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Robert Cormier
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The Mustache |
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Stephen Crane
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A Mystery of Heroism |
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A Desertion |
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A Dark Brown Dog |
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An Ominous Baby |
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The Veteran |
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Roald Dahl
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Lamb to the Slaughter |
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The Landlady |
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Beware of the Dog |
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Man From the South |
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Fielding Dawson
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The Vertical Fields |
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Charles Dickens
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The Baron of Grogzwig |
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The Poor Relation's Story |
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Nobody's Story |
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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His Last Bow |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Copper Beeches |
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A Case of Identity |
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band |
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The Red-Headed League |
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Ralph Ellison
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Battle Royal |
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William Faulkner
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Barn Burning |
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Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech |
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A Rose For Emily |
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Edna Ferber
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Long Distance |
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The Leading Lady |
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The Three of Them |
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The Eldest |
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That's Marriage |
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The Woman Who Tried to Be Good |
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What She Wore |
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The Kitchen Side of the Door |
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Chickens |
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Catching Up With Christmas |
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Ain't Nature Wonderful! |
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The Frog and the Puddle |
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Jack Finney
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Of Missing Persons |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair |
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Winter Dreams |
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Ambrose Flack
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The Strangers That Came to Town |
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E. M. Forster
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The Story of the Siren |
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Mr. Andrews |
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The Eternal Moment |
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James Anthony Froude
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The Farmer and the Fox |
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Mona Gardner
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The Dinner Party |
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The Old Nurse's Story |
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Half-Brothers |
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The Manchester Marriage |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper |
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Graham Greene
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The End of the Party |
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Edward Everett Hale
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The Man without a Country |
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Thomas Hardy
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Squire Petrick's Lady |
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An Imaginative Woman |
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Bret Harte
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The Luck of Roaring Camp |
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment |
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Young Goodman Brown |
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The Birthmark |
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Rappaccini's Daughter |
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The Wives of the Dead |
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The Ambitious Guest |
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David Swan |
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Mrs. Bullfrog |
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The Great Carbuncle |
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Wakefield |
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The Gray Champion |
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Feathertop |
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Alice Doane's Appeal |
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The Great Stone Face |
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Ethan Brand |
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The Minister's Black Veil |
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Ernest Hemingway
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Soldier's Home |
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The Killers |
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In Another Country |
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber |
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The Old Man at the Bridge |
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O. Henry
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The Ransom of Red Chief |
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The Furnished Room |
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The Green Door |
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The Cop and the Anthem |
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Last Leaf |
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The Roads We Take |
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The Coming-Out of Maggie |
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Buried Treasure |
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Memoirs of a Yellow Dog |
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Springtime a la Carte |
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Between Rounds |
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The Princess and the Puma |
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A Chaparral Prince |
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The Hiding of Black Bill |
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Hearts and Crosses |
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A Blackjack Bargainer |
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Transients in Arcadia |
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The Skylight Room |
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The Purple Dress |
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Mammon and the Archer |
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Girl |
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The Cactus |
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Schools and Schools |
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The Whirligig Of Life |
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Best-Seller |
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The Dog and the Playlet |
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No Story |
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Christmas by Injunction |
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Proof of the Pudding |
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What You Want |
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An Unfinished Story |
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The Call of the Tame |
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Babes in the Jungle |
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The Gold That Glittered |
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The Unknown Quantity |
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The Duel |
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The Girl and the Habit |
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A Municipal Report |
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Compliments of the Season |
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Psyche and the Pskyscraper |
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The Fifth Wheel |
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A Bird of Bagdad |
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One Dollar's Worth |
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A Chaparral Christmas Gift |
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A Night in New Arabia |
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Blind Man's Holiday |
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The Gift of the Magi |
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Patrick Henry
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Speech in the Virginia Convention |
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Edward D. Hoch
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The Last Unicorns |
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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman
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The Cremona Violin |
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Langston Hughes
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Thank You, M'am |
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Evan Hunter
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The Last Spin |
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James Hurst
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The Scarlet Ibis |
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Washington Irving
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The Devil and Tom Walker |
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The Specter Bridegroom |
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The Stout Gentleman |
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Rip Van Winkle |
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Shirley Jackson
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After You My Dear Alphonse |
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The Lottery |
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W.W. Jacobs
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Odd Man Out |
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Bill's Lapse |
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Admiral Peters |
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Friends in Need |
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Good Intentions |
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Watch-Dogs |
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Fairy Gold |
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The Guardian Angel |
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The Castaway |
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For Better or Worse |
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Double Dealing |
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Her Uncle |
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Captain Rogers |
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Alf's Dream |
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The Dreamer |
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Lawyer Quince |
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Sentence Deferred |
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Manners Makyth Man |
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A Tiger's Skin |
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The Well |
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Matrimonial Openings |
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A Distant Relative |
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The Toll-House |
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A Circular Tour |
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Angels' Visits |
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Breaking a Spell |
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A Love-Knot |
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A Mixed Proposal |
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The Monkey's Paw |
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Henry James
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The Real Thing |
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Turn of the Screw |
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The Middle Years |
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Thomas Jefferson
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Declaration of Independence |
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Jerome K. Jerome
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A Ghost Story |
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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A White Heron |
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Decoration Day |
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The White Rose Road |
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James Joyce
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Clay |
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Counterparts |
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The Dead |
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After the Race |
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An Encounter |
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Araby |
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Eveline |
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The Boarding House |
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Two Gallants |
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A Little Cloud |
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Franz Kafka
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A Country Doctor |
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Yasunari Kawabata
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The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket |
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Rudyard Kipling
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
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The Man Who Would Be King |
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The Man Who Was |
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Ring Lardner
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Haircut |
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The Golden Honeymoon |
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D.H. Lawrence
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The Rocking Horse Winner |
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Doris Lessing
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Through The Tunnel |
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Abraham Lincoln
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Gettysburg Address |
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The Emancipation Proclamation |
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Jack London
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In a Far Country |
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The God of His Fathers |
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Aloha Oe |
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The Sickness of Lone Chief |
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When Alice Told Her Soul |
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Brown Wolf |
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When the World Was Young |
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The League of the Old Men |
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A Nose For the King |
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Amateur Night |
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All Gold Canyon |
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To Build A Fire |
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A Wicked Woman |
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Katherine Mansfield
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The Stranger |
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The Garden Party |
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Miss Brill |
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The Fly |
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Bliss |
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The Man Without A Temperament |
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The Lady's Maid |
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The Singing Lesson |
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The Voyage |
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The Young Girl |
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An Ideal Family |
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Bank Holiday |
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Mr. and Mrs. Dove |
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Her First Ball |
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Marriage a la Mode |
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The Little Girl |
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Ole Underwood |
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Millie |
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Violet |
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The Woman at the Store |
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New Dresses |
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Germans at Meat |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Eyes of a Blue Dog |
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One of These Days |
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Somerset Maugham
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The Verger |
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Guy de Maupassant
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A Ghost |
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The Hand |
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Friend Patience |
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The Hairpin |
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Two Friends |
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The Donkey |
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The Dowry |
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The Wolf |
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The Adopted Son |
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After |
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A Father's Confession |
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The Log |
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Farewell |
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At Sea |
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The Terror |
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The Kiss |
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A Coward |
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A Dead Woman's Secret |
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Bellflower |
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Coco |
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The Unknown |
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An Affair of State |
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Mademoiselle Fifi |
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A Cremation |
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The Inn |
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The Devil |
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The Impolite Sex |
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The Accursed Bread |
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My Uncle Jules |
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The Artist |
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Countess Satan |
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An Unfortunate Likeness |
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The Diary of a Madman |
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The Sequel to a Divorce |
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Simon's Papa |
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In Various Roles |
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Was It a Dream? |
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That Pig of a Morin |
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Epiphany |
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The Hole |
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Indiscretion |
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The Christening |
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A Family |
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Humiliation |
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Lasting Love |
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The Necklace |
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David McLean
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Marine Corps Issue |
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Herman Melville
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The Lightning-Rod Man |
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The Piazza |
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The Fiddler |
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Bartleby, The Scrivener |
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Frank O'Connnor
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The Drunkard |
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Flannery O'Connor
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own |
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
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Everything that Rises Must Converge |
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Frank O'Connor
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First Confession |
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My Oedipus Complex |
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Liam O'Flaherty
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The Sniper |
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James O'Keefe
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Death Makes a Comeback |
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
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George Orwell
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Shooting an Elephant |
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Thomas Nelson Page
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The Burial of the Guns |
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Grace Paley
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Anxiety |
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Dorothy Parker
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The Last Tea |
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A Telephone Call |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
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The Oval Portrait |
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The Premature Burial |
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The Man of the Crowd |
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Hop-Frog or the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs |
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The Imp of the Perverse |
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The Angel of the Odd |
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The Black Cat |
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The Pit and the Pendulum |
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The Masque of the Red Death |
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The Tell-Tale Heart |
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The Cask of Amontillado |
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The Purloined Letter |
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Katherine Anne Porter
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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Horacio Quiroga
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The Feather Pillow |
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Majorie K. Rawlings
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A Mother in Mannville |
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A.M. Rosenthal
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There Is No News from Auschwitz |
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Saki
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The Interlopers |
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The Storyteller |
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Fate |
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Dusk |
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The Byzantine Omelette |
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The Background |
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A Touch of Realism |
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The Blind Spot |
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The Bag |
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A Defensive Diamond |
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Shock Tactics |
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Down Pens |
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The Image of the Lost Soul |
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The Wolves of Cernogratz |
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The Penance |
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The Baker's Dozen |
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The Hounds of Fate |
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Ministers of Grace |
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Louis |
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Louise |
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The Music on the Hill |
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Mark |
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Tea |
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The Hen |
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A Bread and Butter Miss |
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The Pond |
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The Cobweb |
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A Shot in the Dark |
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Reginald on Worries |
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The Quest |
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The Threat |
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Forewarned |
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The Holy War |
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Quail Seed |
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Cross Currents |
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For the Duration of the War |
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The Romancers |
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Cousin Teresa |
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Esm� |
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Fur |
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Gabriel-Ernest |
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Morlvera |
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Reginald |
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The Guests |
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Bertie's Christmas Eve |
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The Open Window |
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Irwin Shaw
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The Girls in their Summer Dresses |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Markheim |
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Frank Stockton
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The Griffin and the Minor Canon |
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The Christmas Wreck |
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Frank R. Stockton
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The Lady or the Tiger? |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Ghost in the Mill |
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Jesse Stuart
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Split Cherry Tree |
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Amy Tan
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Rules of the Game |
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Dylan Thomas
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A Child's Christmas in Wales |
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James Thurber
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The Princess and the Tin Box |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
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Leo Tolstoy
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? |
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God Sees the Truth, But Waits |
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Ivan the Fool |
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What Men Live By, and other tales |
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Mark Twain
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Luck |
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A Telephonic Conversation |
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Was it Heaven? Or Hell? |
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The Captain's Story |
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Eve's Diary |
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Extracts from Adam's Diary |
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The Five Boons of Life |
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General Washington's Negro Body-Servant |
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Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale |
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
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My First Lie and How I Got Out of It |
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Harrison Bergeron |
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Alice Walker
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Everyday Use |
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Booker T. Washington
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Early Days at Tuskegee |
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H.G. Wells
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The Star |
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The Time Machine |
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The Door in the Wall |
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Eudora Welty
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A Worn Path |
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Edith Wharton
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Afterward |
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Souls Belated |
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Roman Fever |
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The Other Two |
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E.B. White
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Once More to the Lake |
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The Door |
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Oscar Wilde
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The Selfish Giant |
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The Young King |
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The Sphinx Without a Secret |
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The Devoted Friend |
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The Remarkable Rocket |
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The Nightingale and the Rose |
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The Model Millionaire |
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The Birthday of the Infanta |
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The Canterville Ghost |
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The Happy Prince |
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William Carlos Williams
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The Use of Force |
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Thomas Wolfe
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The Far and the Near |
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The Lost Boy |
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Tobias Wolff
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Hunters in the Snow |
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J. Taylor Wood
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The Capture of a Slaver |
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Patrick Henry Woodward
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A Formidable Weapon |
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Virginia Woolf
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A Haunted House |
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Kew Gardens |
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The Mark on the Wall |
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The Duchess and the Jeweller |
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A Society |