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Dreamy accolade for 'Red Mansions'

By Mei Jia ( 皇冠体育app Daily ) Updated: 2014-05-13 08:00:01

? Rashomon

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915)

The author published Rashomon in a university magazine when he was just 17. Just 13 pages long, it comprises seven statements regarding the murder of a samurai and his wife's disappearance.

? One Thousand and One Nights

Dreamy accolade for 'Red Mansions'

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Anonymous (first published in English 1706)

Packing in crime, horror, fantasy and romance, it influenced authors as diverse as Tolstoy, Dumas, Rushdie, Conan Doyle, Proust and Lovecraft.

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