Literature
Bible (KJV) 21: Ecclesiastes
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King James Version
The book of Ecclesiastes is a wonderful book. It tells how all man's doing is futile, if it is done in his own strength. The last two verses…
Far from the Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so…
Shirley
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Charlotte Brontë
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (…
Fathers and Sons
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Ivan Turgenev
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazaro…
Kleider machen Leute
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Gottfried Keller
Die Erzählung “Kleider machen Leute” erschien 1874 im zweiten Band des Novellenzyklus “Die Leute von Seldwyla”.Ein arbeitsloser Schneid…
A Viuvinha
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Jose de Alencar and José De Alencar
A Viuvinha é um romance de autoria de José de Alencar, escritor brasileiro, publicado em 1857. A obra inclui-se entre os chama…
Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine
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Jules Verne
Kin-Fo est un jeune chinois riche, qui est indifférent à tout et ne connaît pas le bonheur. Un jour, il se retrouve ruin…
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
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Mark Twain
Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep imp…
Der Chancellor
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Jules Verne
Der Chancellor ist eines von Jules Vernes ungewöhnlichsten Werken. Es erzählt vom Untergang eines Schiffes in Form eines Tagebuche…
The Metamorphosis (version 2)
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Franz Kafka
"The Metamorphosis" is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 and one of his best known works. The story begins with a …
Der Schmied seines Glückes
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Gottfried Keller
"Der Schmied seines Glückes" ist eine weitere amüsante Novelle aus Seldwyla. Johannes Kabis, der sich selbst John Kabys …
The Adventures of Gerard
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrec…
Um Club da Má Língua
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
O nome do autor é ocasionalmente grafado como Dostoievsky – foi um escritor russo, considerado um dos maiores romancistas da literat…
Doctor Thorne
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Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
Eine Ehestandstragödie
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Wilkie Collins
Eine reiche Witwe heiratet einen Gentleman ohne Vermögen. Bald schon kommt es zum Streit zwischen den Eheleuten und der Mann verschwind…
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
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Thomas Hardy
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
Der Bär
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Anton Chekhov
Der Bär ist ein Theaterstück in einem Akt von Anton Tschechow, von ihm selbst als "Scherz" bezeichnet. Jeléna Iw&…
Jude the Obscure (Version 2)
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Thomas Hardy
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…
Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs
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Friedrich Schiller
Schiller (1759 - 1805), einer der Weimarer Klassiker, bekannt als Dichter und Dramatiker, studierte zunächst Medizin, wirkte auch als P…