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W. Somerset Maugham (W stands for William) rough. Borscht is beets, cabbage, and beef. Slava Ukrain
The Curfew Tolls - Stephen Vincent Benét (1935)
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The Law - Robert M. Coates (1947)
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Theft - Katherine Anne Porter (1930)
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The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles - Edmond Wilson (1942) slightly more graphic than necessary in my opinion, but not bad
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The Tale - Joseph Conrad (1926) ‘this episode is a slog through the fog of words and memories’
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WARNING: Brief graphic scene. Thanks, Guy De Maupassant (188-) Translated by H. N. P. Sloman (Harold Norman Penrose Sloman) His parents must have loved him. I will be thrilled when I finally guess the name for the initial
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The Man Higher Up - O. Henry (1908) [Willam Sydney Porter is the authors name. His pen name was O. Henry. Are authors the real grifters???]
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The Girl From Red Lion, P.A. - H. L. Mencken (1940). [Author full name is Henry Louis Mencken. Wasn’t even close.]
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The Ghosts - Lord Dunsany (1908)
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Father Wakes Up the Village - Clarence Day (1935)
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The Man of the House - Frank O’Connor (1949)
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The Standard of Living - Dorothy Parker (1941)
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The Other Side Of The Hedge - E M Forester (1947)
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The Catbird Seat - James Thurber (1942)
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The Chrysanthemums - John Steinbeck (1938)
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The Lottery - Shirley Jackson (1948)
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The Phoenix - Sylvia Townsend Warner (1940)
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The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield (1922)
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The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allen Poe (1842)
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A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf (1944)
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The Jockey - Carson McCullers (1940) Excerpt of "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
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