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Theodore Dreiser, "Sister Carrie"
Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"
J.D. Salinger, "The Cathcher in the Rye"