Literature

Monsieur Beaucaire

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Booth Tarkington


A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…

La Comédie Humaine: Les Comédiens sans le savoir

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Honoré de Balzac


Sylvestre Palafox-Castel-Gazonnal, dit Gazonnal, « monte » à Paris pour régler un procès qui l’oppose au pr…

The Old Manor House

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Charlotte Turner Smith


The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, "Rayland Hall", the old Manor House of the title, had to pass…

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

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T. S. Arthur


Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …

Die Leute auf Hemsö

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August Strindberg


Erstes Kapitel: Carlsson tritt seinen Dienst an und wird als Gauner charakterisiert.Zweites Kapitel: Sonntagsruhe und Sonntagsarbeit; der gu…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung

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Friedrich Schiller


Schiller, einer der Weimarer Klassiker, bekannt als Dichter und Dramatiker, beschreibt in meisterhaftem Deutsch den Beginn der Unabhäng…

A Drama of Exile

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning


In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradis…

Geography and Plays

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Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

野分 (Nowaki)

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Sōseki Natsume


「野分」は、明治末、路面電車と人力車が走っていた東京が舞台です。３人の作家を巡る物語です。白井道也は、地方の中学を３つやめてから、文筆で、世を覚醒することを志します。高柳周作と中野輝一は、大学を卒業したばかりの同級生です。高柳君は、貧しく、中野君は裕福です。白井道也が、中野君を取…

Gobseck

Read by James E. Carson


Honoré de Balzac


Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…

1891 Collection

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Various


A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…

Reinaart de Vos

Read by Anna Simon


Unknowntranslated Byjulius De Geyter and Translated Byjulius De Geyter


Het episch dierdicht "Van den Vos Reynaerde", geschreven in het Middelnederlands in de 13e eeuw, geldt als een hoogtepunt in de Ne…

Van Oude Menschen de Dingen, die Voorbij Gaan

Read by Carola Janssen


Louis Couperus


Zoals de titel al aangeeft gaat het boek over oude mensen (en ouder worden) en de dingen die voorbijgaan. Maar niet alles gaat voorbij met h…

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