Literature

Washington Square

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Henry James


Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…

Wessex Tales

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Thomas Hardy


Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…

Michael Kohlhaas

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Heinrich von Kleist


An den Ufern der Havel lebte, um die Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, ein Roßhändler, namens Michael Kohlhaas, Sohn eines Schu…

Agnes Grey

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Anne Brontë


The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…

The Vicar of Wakefield

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Oliver Goldsmith


Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…

Vixen

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…

The Moneychangers

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Upton Sinclair


A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…

Der Stechlin

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Theodor Fontane


"Der Stechlin" ist Fontanes letzter großer Roman. Die Handlung rankt sich um das uralte märkische Adelsgeschlecht derer…

Crucial Instances

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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…

Contos, volume 1

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Artur de Azevedo


Artur de Azevedo foi um dos principais autores de teatro no Brasil do século XIX. Dando continuidade à obra de Martins Pena, c…

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 …

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…

Pole Poppenspäler

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Theodor Storm


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

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;…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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