Literature
Selected Essays
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
Anna Karenina
Read by Marcel Coenders
Leo Tolstoy
Het gaat hier om een (ingekorte) Nederlandse vertaling van het klassieke werk van Leo Tolstoy. Een aristocratische vrouw verlaat haar ongelu…
Tono-Bungay
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H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…
Saudades
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Bernardim Ribeiro
"Saudades" é o primeiro romance pastoril escrito em língua portuguesa. É também conhecido como "H…
Iphigenie auf Tauris
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iphigenie auf Tauris ist insofern ein klassisches Drama, als es sowohl einen antiken Stoff behandelt als auch das Menschenideal der Klassik …
Römische Geschichte
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Römische Geschichte Drittes B…
Manfred
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Manfred is a dramatic poem in three acts by Lord Byron, and possibly a self confessional work. A noble, Manfred, is haunted by the memory of…
The Guilty River
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Wilkie Collins
After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childho…
Art and Morality
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Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
The Prussian Officer
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D. H. Lawrence
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…
Der Schuß von der Kanzel
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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Der Schuß von der Kanzel ist eine humoristische Novelle von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), die vom Werk Gottfried Kellers beeinfl…
Botchan
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Sōseki Natsume
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival…
A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to cha…
In Chancery
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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. In Chancery is…
Contos
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Artur de Azevedo
Artur de Azevedo foi um dos principais autores de teatro no Brasil do século XIX. Dando continuidade à obra de Martins Pena, c…
Römische Geschichte
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Römische Geschichte Viertes Buch Die Revo…
Madame Butterfly
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John Luther Long
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outca…
The Reef
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Edith Wharton
George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, A…
Our Mutual Friend
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Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …