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By Flora Thompson 

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By James Agee 

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By Don DeLillo 

By Yukio Mishima 

By Hans Fallada 

By Sylvia Townsend Warner 

By Norman Collins 

By Vladimir Nabokov 

By Isaac Bashevis Singer 

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By Harry Harrison 

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