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Edgar Allan Poe Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America - The Tell-
Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat

BEST MOVIES

Franz Kafka Prague, Czech Republic - The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony,
Description of a Struggle, The Village Schoolmaster

Anton Chekhov Taganrog, Russia - The Lady with the Dog, The Bet, The
Darling, Vanka, The Death of a Clerk, The Duel, A Boring Story

Mark Twain Florida, Missouri, United States of America - The Celebrated Jumping
Frog of Calaveras County, The War Prayer, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Eve's Diary
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Oscar Wilde Dublin, Republic of Ireland - The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy
Prince, A House of Pomegranates

Ernest Hemingway Oak Park, USA, Illinois - The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The
Capital of the World, Indian Camp, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

O. Henry Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America - The Gift of the Magi,
The Ransom of Red Chief, After Twenty Years, A Retrieved Reformation
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Jorge Luis Borges Buenos Aires, Argentina - The Library of Babel, The Other,
The Circular Ruins, The Garden of Forking Paths

Flannery O'Connor Savannah, Georgia, United States of America - A Good

Man Is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, The Geranium, The River

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William Faulkner New Albany, Mississippi, United States of America - A Rose

for Emily, Barn Burning, Dry September, That Evening Sun, Red Leaves

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Guy de Maupassant Tourville-sur-Arques, France - Boule de Suif, Deux Amis,

Mother Savage, Mademoiselle Fifi
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Arthur Conan Doyle Edinburgh, United Kingdom - The Adventure of the

Speckled Band, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Final Problem, The Man with the Twisted Lip

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Rudyard Kipling Mumbai, India - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Man Who Would Be

King, Lispeth, Mowgli's Brothers

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Herman Melville Manhattan, New York City, New York - Bartleby, the
Scrivener, The Lighning-Rod Man, Encantadas

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Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana, Russia - The Three Questions, What Men Live By,
Ivan the Fool, Father Sergius
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James Joyce Rathgar, Republic of Ireland - The Dead, Araby, The Sisters, Eveline,
The Boarding House, An Encounter

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Ray BradburyWaukegan, USA, Illinois - All Summer in a Day, There Will Come
Soft Rains, The Pedestrian, The Last Night of the World

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Nikolai GogolVelyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine - The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a

Madman, The Portrait

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H. P. LovecraftProvidence, Rhode Island, United States of America - At the

Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror, History of the
Necronomicon
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H. G. Wells Bromley, United Kingdom - The Red Room, The Country of the Blind,
The New Accelerator, The Stolen Body

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J. D. Salinger New York City, New York, United States of America - A Perfect Day
for Bananafish, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter, For Esmwith Love and Squalor

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Raymond Carver Clatskanie, Oregon, United States of America - Where I'm

Calling From, Cathedral, Neighbors, So Much Water Close to Home

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Kurt Vonnegut Indianapolis, United States of America, United States - Harrison

Bergeron, 2 B R 0 2 B, Miss Temptation, The Report on the Barnhouse Effect
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Washington Irving Manhattan, New York City, New York - Rip Van Winkle,
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Devil and Tom Walker

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America - The Lost
Decade, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, A Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Offshore Pirate

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Roald Dahl Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom - The Landlady, Skin, Man from the
South

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Julio Cortzar Ixelles, Belgium - Axolotl, Blow-Up, Headache

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Shirley Jackson California, United States of America - The Lottery, Louise Please
Come Home, Charles, The Possibility of Evil, The Lovely House

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Jack London USA, California, San Francisco - To Build a Fire, The Mexican, A
Piece of Steak, Batard

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Gabriel Garca Mrquez Aracataca, Colombia - A Very Old Man with

Enormous Wings, Eva Is Inside Her Cat, The Autumn of the Patriarch

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Hans Christian Andersen Odense, Denmark

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Rabindranath Tagore Kolkata, India

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Alice Munro Wingham, Ontario, Canada - The Boy Came Over the Mountain, Deep
Holes, The View from Castle Rock, Voices

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Joseph Conrad Berdychiv, Ukraine - Youth, The Lagoon, The Idiot, Tales of
Unrest, An Outpost of Progress

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Charles Bukowski Andernach, Germany - All the Assh*les in the World Plus
Mine, Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts
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John Cheever USA, Massachusetts, Quincy - The Swimmer, Goodbye My Brother,

The Enormous Radio, The Five-Forty-Eight

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Thomas Mann Eurasia, Lbeck, Schleswig-Holstein - Death in Venice, Felix Krull,

Mario and the Magician, Little Herr Friedemann, The Clown

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Philip K. Dick Chicago, Illinois, United States of America - The Minority Report,
Second Variety, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Paycheck

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Agatha Christie Torquay, United Kingdom - The Witness for the Protection,
Accident, Philomel Cottage, The Chocolate Box, The Second Gong
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D. H. Lawrence Eastwood, United Kingdom - The Rocking-Horse Winner, The

Princess, St Mawr, The Fox, The Woman Who Rode Away

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Stephen King Portland, Maine, United States of America - The Mangler, The
Lawnmower Man, Graveyard Shift, The Boogeyman, Sometimes They Come Back

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Salem, Massachusetts, United States of America -

Young Goodman Brown, The Birth-Mark, Rappaccini's Daughter, The Minister's Black Veil

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Brothers Grimm
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W. Somerset Maugham Paris, France

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Saki (H. H. Munro) Sittwe, Myanmar - The Interlopers, Gabriel-Ernest, The

Toys of Peace, The Open Window

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P. G. Wodehouse Guildford, United Kingdom - Carry On Jeeves, The Custody

of Pumpkin, Extricating Young Gussie, Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend

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Vladimir Nabokov Saint Petersburg, Russia - Signs and Symbols, The Vane
Sisters, Terra Incognita, A Nursery Tale
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Isaac Asimov Petrovichi, Russia - The Bicentennial Man, Nightfall, The Last
Question, The Fun They Had, The Last Answer

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Moscow, Russia

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James Thurber

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Haruki Murakami Fushimi-ku, Kyoto - The Second Bakery Attack, The Year of
Spaghetti, The Kidney-Shaped Stoned That Moves Every Day
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George Saunders USA, California - CommComm, Pastoralia, Escape from

Spiderhead, My Amendment

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Charles Dickens Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Roberto Bolao Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province - Clara, The

Return, The Insufferable Gaucho, Beach

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Eudora WeltyJackson, Mississippi - Lily Daw and the Three Ladies, Music from
Spain, A Worn Path
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Mikhail Bulgakov Kiev, Ukrainian SSR - Diaboliad, Future Prospects, Notes on

the Cuff, The Fatal Eggs

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Carson McCullers Columbus, Georgia - A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, Madame

Zilensky and the King of Finland, The Jockey

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Dashiell Hammett Maryland, United States of America

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Henry James New York City, New York - The Best in the Jungle, The Liar, The Jolly
Corner, Madame de Mauves, The Birthplace
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Honor de Balzac Tours, France

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Katherine Anne Porter Indian Creek, Texas - Flowering Judas, Maria

Concepcion, The Leaning Tower

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G. K. Chesterton Kensington, London

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Edith WhartonNew York City, New York - The Descent of Man, The Fullness of
Life, Roman Fever, April Showers, The Pelican
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Heinrich Bll Cologne, Eurasia - You Go to Heidelberg Too Often, Parting, At the
Bridge, In the Darkness

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Tobias Wolff Birmingham, Alabama - In the Garden of the North American Martyrs;
Hunters in the Snow; Bullet in the Brain

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J. G. Ballard Shanghai International Settlement

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E.T.A. HoffmannKnigsberg, Germany

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Stefan Zweig Vienna, Austria

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Luigi Pirandello Agrigento, Italy

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Aldous Huxley South East England, Surrey - The Gioconda Smile, Voices,
Permutations Among the Nightingales, Green Tunnels

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Voltaire Paris, France - Zadig the Babylonian

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Donald Barthelme Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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William Trevor Mitchelstown, Republic of Ireland - Angels at the Ritz, The News
from Ireland, The Day We Got Drunk on Cake, Family Sins

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa Tokyo, Japan

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Dino BuzzatiBelluno, Italy

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Heinrich von Kleist Brandenburg, Eurasia

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Robert Walser Switzerland, European Free Trade Association

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Ambrose Bierce Ohio, United States

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Yasunari Kawabata Osaka, Japan - The Pomegranate, Thank You, The Man
Who Does Not Laugh, Immortality
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Hartford, Connecticut - The Yellow Wallpaper

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Katherine Mansfield Wellington, New Zealand - The Garden Party, Bliss, At

the Bay, Something Childish but Very Natural, Prelude

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Sherwood Anderson Camden, Ohio

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Plutarch Southeast Europe, Greece

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Bernard Malamud New York City, New York

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Isaac Babel Odessa, Ukraine - The Story of My Dovecat, Crossing the River Zbrucz,
My First Goose

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Stephen Crane Newark, New Jersey - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Blue
Hotel, The Open Boat, An Experiment in Misery

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Joo Guimares Rosa Cordisburgo, Brazil

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V. S. Pritchett Ipswich, United Kingdom

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Richard Yates Yonkers, New York

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Alphonse Daudet Nmes, France

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Paul Morand Paris, France

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Sherman Alexie Wellpinit, Washington

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Jhumpa LahiriEngland, London - The Third and Final Continent, Hell-Heaven, A

Real Durwan, Year's End

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Mircea Eliade Bucharest, Romania

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A. M. Homes Washington, D.C.

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Andrei Platonov Voronezh Oblast, Eurasia - The Return, Soul, The Fierce &
Beautiful World

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Ursula K. Le Guin Berkeley, California

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William Saroyan USA, California

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Jean Giono Europe, Metropolitan France

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Isaac Bashevis Singer Leoncin, Poland