Literary Fiction
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4
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Marguerite Of Navarre
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories
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Edith Wharton
Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…
Extaze, een boek van geluk
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Louis Couperus
Het verhaal van een onmogelijke liefde. Naar mijne meening is het werk 'Extaze' zeer superieur aan de vorige werken van den Heer Couperus, '…
La Lecture, tome 2
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
To the Lighthouse (Version 3)
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Virginia Woolf
In three parts, this modern classic explores the life of an English family, the Ramsays, at their Scottish summer house both before and afte…
Psyche
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Louis Couperus
Psyche is een poëtische vertelling, symboliseerend een opvatting van Mensch en Wereld. Drie factoren beheerschen het menschenbestaan, d…
Uther and Igraine
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Warwick Deeping
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)
Joan Haste
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H. Rider Haggard
A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard's most poignant love stories. Joan Haste, a beautiful but illegitimate woman whose mother …
A Daughter of Today
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories
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E. M. Forster
With twenty Nobel Prize nominations to his credit, E. M. Forster may reasonably be considered one of the best writers of the 20th century – …
After the Divorce
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Grazia Deledda
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their exten…
The Rainbow (Version 3)
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D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…
Nouvelles
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Ceci est une collection de huit nouvelles de la plume de l'auteur russe Léonid Andreïev (1871-1919), traduites par Serge Persky …
Martin Schüler
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Florence Roma Muir Wilson
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
At a Winter's Fire
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Bernard Capes
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short da…
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2
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H. H. Bashford
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the K…
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
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Novalis
Die sprichwörtliche „blaue Blume “ der Poesie hat ihren Ursprung in diesem Roman Novalis'. Novalis verwebt in diesem Bildungsroman M&a…
The Chouans (version 2)
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Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
Doña Berta
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Leopoldo Garcia Alas
Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…