Literary Fiction

Zum wilden Mann

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Wilhelm Raabe



Zumindest um eine Ecke gedacht erinnert die Novelle „Zum Wilden Mann“ durchaus an die den cineastischen Evergreen rund um die Feuerzangenbow…

Barnaby Rudge (NL)

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens



Barnaby Rudge is, naast Londen en Parijs, een van de twee historische romans van Charles Dickens. Het verhaal behandelt de Gordon oproer uit…

The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2)

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Ella Hepworth Dixon



“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …

Colonel Chabert (Version 2)

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Honoré de Balzac



The short novel “Colonel Chabert” (1832) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the sprawling novel series titled “The Human Comedy.” Chabert,…

Los Nazarenos

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José Milla Y Vidaurre



Los Nazarenos es la obra cumbre de Pepe Milla. La trama describe la rivalidad entre las familias mientras colapsa la Capitanía Genera…

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)

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Sylvia Townsend Warner



Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …

Stopfkuchen - Eine See- und Mordgeschichte

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Wilhelm Raabe



"Stopfkuchen", eigentlich Heinrich Schaumann, wäre in der Jetzt-Zeit wohl ein gemobbter Junge, ein Schul- und Studien"ve…

The Adventure of the Broad Arrow: An Australian Romance

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Morley Roberts



When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make …

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17

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Various



The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Mr. Moffatt

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Chester Francis Cobb



Mr. Moffatt owns a chemist's business in suburban Sydney, Australia, where he lives with his wife, Florence, and adult daughter, Naomi. The …

Un Viaje de Novios

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Emilia Pardo Bazán



Publicada en 1881, esta novela de la condesa Pardo Bazán narra el viaje de una pareja que ha contraído un matrimonio de conven…

Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade

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Walter Hamilton



This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade…

La cruzada de los niños

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Marcel Schwob



La cruzada de los niños, constituye una joya de la literatura universal en la que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho mon&o…

The Murder of Delicia

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Marie Corelli



The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…

The Rover Vol. 01 No. 01

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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith



"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)

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W. S. Gilbert



Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …

The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)

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Émile Zola



The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …

The Unknown Masterpiece

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Honoré de Balzac



“The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earli…

The Quest of the Golden Girl

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Richard Le Gallienne



The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God mea…

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