Fiction

グッド・バイ

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Osamu Dazai



『朝日新聞』に連載予定だったユーモア小説「グッド・バイ」が未完の遺作となった。奇しくもこの作品の13話が絶筆になったのは、キリスト教のジンクスを暗示した太宰の最後の洒落だったとする説(檀一雄)もある。(ウィキペディア)In the spring of 1948, he was w…

Redburn

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Herman Melville



Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…

Die Wahlverwandtschaften

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Der Roman ist ein typischer Vertreter der Weimarer Klassik. Goethe greift ein gesellschaftliches Thema auf und verbindet es mit einem naturw…

Initials Only

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Anna Katharine Green



Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…

The Land of Frozen Suns

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Bertrand W. Sinclair



Bertrand W. Sinclair was known for his novels which centered in and around the rugged and frozen terrain of Montana and later, British Colum…

The First Violin

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Jessie Fothergill



May Wedderburn is a quiet provincial girl, living in small and seemingly boring Skernford. Underneath the dull exterior, there is mystery, s…

Conjuring Raine

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Maya Lassiter



From San Fransisco's Tenderloin to the Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, human trafficking, vampires, and conjure magic combine in this sexy, …

Theo

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Frances Hodgson Burnett



It's described as "A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY" and it is written by F. H. Burnett, "one of the most charming among American write…

The Lamplighter

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Maria Susanna Cummins



Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was th…

Two On A Tower

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Thomas Hardy



The plot concerns two – literally star-crossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an u…

The Abandoned Room

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Wadsworth Camp



The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.n…

Belinda

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Maria Edgeworth



When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented i…

Othello

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Wilhelm Hauff



Vor dem Hintergrund der Oper "Othello" entwickelt Hauff seine Geschichte über einen Mord, einen Geist und eine verbotene Lieb…

The Great White Queen

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William Le Queux



How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular LibriVox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different dir…

A Sicilian Romance

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Ann Radcliffe



A Sicilian Romance is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The pl…

Holidays at Roselands

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Martha Finley



This is the second book of the much loved Elsie Dinsmore series and starts where the first book left off. Elsie is still recuperating from h…

The Pretty Lady

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Arnold Bennett



‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…

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