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Edith Wharton


This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…

Jacob's Room

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Virginia Woolf


The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impres…

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 …

Pole Poppenspäler

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Theodor Storm


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

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

The Passionate Friends

Read by Peter Eastman


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…

The American

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


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 …

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 …

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