Literature

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 …

The Greater Inclination

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Edith Wharton


This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

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…

Mattinate Napoletane

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Salvatore Di Giacomo


Lasciati gli studi di medicina per dedicarsi al lavoro di redattore di giornale il giovane SDG seppe scrivere in quegli anni alcune tra le p…

Othello (Novelle)

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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…

Adam Bede

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George Eliot


Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…

Auswahl aus Die Serapionsbrüder

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E. T. A. Hoffmann


Die Serapionsbrüder nannte E.T.A. Hoffmann zusammenfassend eine Sammlung seiner zwischen 1819-1821 entstandenen Novellen. In einer fikt…

Where Angels Fear to Tread

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E. M. Forster


On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …

Zapiski iz podpolya (Notes from the Underground)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a sophisticated novell with extremely hard to comprehend philosophical ideas lying on the bor…

King Coal

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Upton Sinclair


King Coal is a book by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the…

Sister Carrie

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Theodore Dreiser


Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…

Hunger

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Knut Hamsun


Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…

The Rainbow

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D. H. Lawrence


The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D.H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on t…

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

Through the Looking-Glass (version 3)

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Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson),…

The Aspern Papers

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts

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Henry James


Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatr…

Die Judenbuche (Version 2)

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Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff


"Die Judenbuche – Ein Sittengemälde aus dem gebirgichten Westfalen" ist eine Novelle von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, di…

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