Literature

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

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Henry James



The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Resurrection, Book 1

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Leo Tolstoy



Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…

Dangerous Connections (Les liaisons dangereuses)

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Choderlos De Laclos and Pierre Choderlos De Laclos



A translation of 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' alternative title 'Dangerous Liasons'Everyone probably has Glenn Close and John Malkovich in mi…

Pole Poppenspäler

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Theodor Storm



"Pole Poppenspäler" erzählt die Geschichte der Kinderfreundschaft und späteren Liebe zwischen Paul Paulsen, dem Soh…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

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Samuel Johnson



In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…

News From Nowhere

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William Morris



News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialis…

Die Judenbuche

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Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff



Ein Sittengemälde aus dem gebirgigen Westfalen.Banden, die Forstdiebstahl im großen Stil betreiben, von allen Mitwissern gedeckt;…

Summer

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Edith Wharton



The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1

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Laurence Sterne



The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in n…

Sonetos - Poemas Filosoficos

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Luís Vaz de Camões



Luís Vaz de Camões é frequentemente considerado como o maior poeta de língua portuguesa e dos maiores da Humanid…

An Essay on Man

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Alexander Pope



Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…

The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)

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John Galsworthy



'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…

El Señor de Bembibre

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Enrique Gil Y Carrasco



Don Álvaro, señor de Bembibre, se ve correspondido en su amor por doña Beatriz, hija de don Alonso señor de Arga…

The American

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Henry James



One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …

Die Anarchisten

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John Henry Mackay



John Henry Mackays Buch „Die Anarchisten“ ist überwiegend biographisch gefärbt und basiert auf eigenen Erlebnissen. Anhand zweier …

The Passionate Friends

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H. G. Wells



H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love sto…

Oliver Twist (version 2)

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Charles Dickens



Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The…

Persuasion (version 5)

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Jane Austen



Persuasion is a regency Cinderella-esque tale of a young woman, the beautiful Anne Elliot, who is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer …

The Greater Inclination

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Edith Wharton



This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

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