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La Comédie Humaine: 01 - Scènes de la vie privée tome 1 (25-6-42)

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Honoré de Balzac


Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…

King Henry IV, Part 2

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William Shakespeare


Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, prec…

Dietegen

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Gottfried Keller


Die lebenslustigen Seldwyler leben seit alter Tradition in einem ständigen Streit mit ihren Nachbarn in Ruechenstein, einem finsteren u…

Poèmes Saturniens

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Paul Verlaine and Paul-Marie Verlaine


Poèmes saturniens est le titre du premier recueil de poèmes de Paul Verlaine. Si Verlaine convoque Saturne, c'est en tant que …

The Cossacks

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Leo Tolstoy


The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocra…

The Fruit of the Tree

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Edith Wharton


When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…

The Cricket on the Hearth

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Charles Dickens


John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious …

The Lifted Veil

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George Eliot


The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The…

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf


Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

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Jonathan Swift


This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…

Der Arme Spielmann

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Franz Grillparzer


Auf dem Weg zur Brigittenauer Kirchweihe fällt dem Erzähler ein alter Geigenspieler auf. Durch ein kurzes Gespräch neugierig …

Farewell

Read by Martin Geeson


Honoré de Balzac


In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…

Die Räuber - Ein Schauspiel

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Friedrich Schiller


Die Räuber ist der Titel des ersten veröffentlichten Dramas von Friedrich Schiller. Das Werk, das zunächst nicht als Büh…

Nigger of the Narcissus

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Joseph Conrad


This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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Stephen Crane


Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its …

Joseph Andrews

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…

The Art of Fiction

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Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Der Waldteufel

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Robert Kraft


Der Waldteufel erschien 1898 im Rahmen der 5 Hefte umfassenden Serie „Aus allen Welttheilen“, wobei jedes Heft eine abgeschlossene Geschicht…

Father Goriot

Read by James E. Carson


Honoré de Balzac


One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to …

The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

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