Literature
The Vicar of Wakefield
Read by Martin Clifton
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 £…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contos
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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…
Resurrection
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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…
The Portrait of a Lady
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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 …
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
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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…
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…
Pole Poppenspäler
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Theodor Storm
"Pole Poppenspäler" erzählt die Geschichte der Kinderfreundschaft und späteren Liebe zwischen Paul Paulsen, dem Soh…
Summer
Read by Robin Cotter
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
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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…
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;…
Sonetos
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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…
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
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…