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    ChildhoodTove Ditlevsen
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    DependencyTove Ditlevsen
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    YouthTove Ditlevsen
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    IceAnna Kavan
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    A Distant EpisodePaul Bowles
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    All the Blood Within MeKingsley Amis
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    I Bought a Little CityDonald Barthelme
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    Shock TherapyVarlam Shalamov
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    Spring in FialtaVladimir Nabokov
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    The BabysitterRobert Coover
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    The Circular ValleyPaul Bowles
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    The Glass MountainDonald Barthelme
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    The IntoxicatedShirley Jackson
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    The WitchShirley Jackson
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    Traces of LoveEileen Chang
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    Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
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    ScoopEvelyn Waugh
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    Tactical Exercise & Other Late StoriesEvelyn Waugh
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    Babette's FeastIsak Dinesen
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    BluebeardAngela Carter
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    Dear IllusionKingsley Amis
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    Him With His Foot in His MouthSaul Bellow
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    Lunar CausticMalcolm Lowry
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    Moon LakeEudora Welty
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    Red Rose, White RoseEileen Chang
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    Rich in RussiaJohn Updike
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    Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend ColbyDonald Barthelme
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    Terra IncognitaVladimir Nabokov
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    The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed IrelandFrank O'Connor
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    The Gifts of WarMargaret Drabble
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