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"Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
This famous story by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was first published in 1874 in the second volume of his collection of stories (...)
This famous story by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was first published in 1874 in the second volume of his collection of stories The People of Seldwyla about the mores and adventures of the people of the mythical but (...)
This famous story by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was first published in 1874 in the second volume of his collection of stories The People of Seldwyla about the mores and adventures of the people of the mythical but somehow very typical Swiss town of that name. It recounts (...)

"The Ship of Darkness" (1948) - a golden-age s-f/fantasy story by A. E. van Vogt
The Ship of Darkness was first published as the cover story in the February 1948 issue of Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, Number 2, pictured here. A. E. (...)
The Ship of Darkness was first published as the cover story in the February 1948 issue of Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, Number 2, pictured here. A. E. van Vogt had tried his hand at the fantasy vein with his (very) fantastic novel The Book (...)
The Ship of Darkness was first published as the cover story in the February 1948 issue of Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, Number 2, pictured here. A. E. van Vogt had tried his hand at the fantasy vein with his (very) fantastic novel The Book of Ptath which first appeared in the October 1943 issue of (...)

Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt
These fifteen stories are all fine examples of this great writer’s best work from his most creative period - the forties and early fifties, the (...)
These fifteen stories are all fine examples of this great writer’s best work from his most creative period - the forties and early fifties, the "golden age" of science-fiction. All of the stories published here are the original (...)
These fifteen stories are all fine examples of this great writer’s best work from his most creative period - the forties and early fifties, the "golden age" of science-fiction. All of the stories published here are the original magazine versions, with the magazine artwork and cover for each (...)

"Destination Universe!" - the full text of A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
With the original magazine texts, artwork and covers of each story. ---- TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION by A. E. van Vogt. 1. Far Centaurus (...)
With the original magazine texts, artwork and covers of each story. ---- TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION by A. E. van Vogt. 1. Far Centaurus (1944) Getting to Centaurus on a spaceship can take a long time indeed, and when you get (...)
With the original magazine texts, artwork and covers of each story. ---- TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION by A. E. van Vogt. 1. Far Centaurus (1944) Getting to Centaurus on a spaceship can take a long time indeed, and when you get there, there will be surprises! (7,700 words). 2. The (...)

"The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt - the full text
First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious (...)
First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious blockbuster novel set in 2580 A.D. was A. E. van Vogt’s fourth major novel in that glorious (...)
First published in monthly instalments in the August-October 1945 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, this fast-paced and very ambitious blockbuster novel set in 2580 A.D. was A. E. van Vogt’s fourth major novel in that glorious heyday-decade of science fiction, the golden forties. Regularly (...)

The complete short stories and novelettes of Jack London - synopses, comments and ratings
Jack London (1876-1916) wrote an almost incredible number of short stories and novelettes (199) before his premature death at the age of 40, as (...)
Jack London (1876-1916) wrote an almost incredible number of short stories and novelettes (199) before his premature death at the age of 40, as well as novels (13), novellas (5) and a considerable number of essays, plays, poems, and (...)
Jack London (1876-1916) wrote an almost incredible number of short stories and novelettes (199) before his premature death at the age of 40, as well as novels (13), novellas (5) and a considerable number of essays, plays, poems, and articles. [1] The sheer volume of his output and the wide (...)

"The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story (the full text)
This golden-age story, first published in the August 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, was considered by its author to be one of his best (...)
This golden-age story, first published in the August 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, was considered by its author to be one of his best - an opinion we heartily concur with. It was later republished in some anthologies as (...)
This golden-age story, first published in the August 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, was considered by its author to be one of his best - an opinion we heartily concur with. It was later republished in some anthologies as Resurrection, but it appeared in van Vogt’s first anthology of (...)

"The Shadow Men (1950)" - the full text of an outstanding golden-age science-fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt never before republished
This striking novel from the golden age of science-fiction (the nineteen-forties and early fifties) was never republished in either magazine or (...)
This striking novel from the golden age of science-fiction (the nineteen-forties and early fifties) was never republished in either magazine or book form after its initial appearance in the January 1950 issue of Startling Stories , (...)
This striking novel from the golden age of science-fiction (the nineteen-forties and early fifties) was never republished in either magazine or book form after its initial appearance in the January 1950 issue of Startling Stories , where it was highlighted on the quite spectacular cover by (...)

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