Literature

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

Die Wahlverwandtschaften

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Der Roman ist ein typischer Vertreter der Weimarer Klassik. Goethe greift ein gesellschaftliches Thema auf und verbindet es mit einem naturw…

Mattinate Napoletane

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Salvatore Di Giacomo



Lasciati gli studi di medicina per dedicarsi al lavoro di redattore di giornale il giovane SDG seppe scrivere in quegli anni alcune tra le p…

Othello (Novelle)

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Wilhelm Hauff



Vor dem Hintergrund der Oper "Othello" entwickelt Hauff seine Geschichte über einen Mord, einen Geist und eine verbotene Lieb…

Adam Bede

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George Eliot



Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…

Where Angels Fear to Tread

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E. M. Forster



On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …

Auswahl aus Die Serapionsbrüder

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E. T. A. Hoffmann



Die Serapionsbrüder nannte E.T.A. Hoffmann zusammenfassend eine Sammlung seiner zwischen 1819-1821 entstandenen Novellen. In einer fikt…

Sister Carrie

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Theodore Dreiser



Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…

King Coal

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Upton Sinclair



King Coal is a book by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the…

Zapiski iz podpolya (Notes from the Underground)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky



Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a sophisticated novell with extremely hard to comprehend philosophical ideas lying on the bor…

Hunger

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Knut Hamsun



Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…

The Regent

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Arnold Bennett



'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

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