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CHEKHOV
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CHEKHOV STORIES ON THIS SITE
- "An Unpleasantness" (1888) by Anton Chekhov
- A selection of Chekhov’s captions to humorous drawings
- "A Visit With Friends" by Anton Chekhov (1898)
- "The Nightingale’s Benefit Performance" by Anton Chekhov (1883)
- "Nothing To Be Done!" and other previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
- "To Cure a Drinking Bout" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "Lost Business" and other previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
- Fourteen of the best previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
- "Saintly Simplicity" (1885) by Anton Chekhov
- "In Autumn" (1883), by Anton Chekhov
- "The Sinner from Toledo" (1881) - a denunciation of religious extremism by Anton Chekhov
- "A Living Calendar" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "An Enigmatic Nature" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "The Black Monk" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "Anyuta" and other Chekhov stories
- "The Huntsman" and other Chekhov stories
- "Ward No. 6" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "Easter Eve" and other great Chekhov stories
- "The Lady with the Dog" and other great stories by Anton Chekhov
- Anton Chekhov’s funniest story: "From the Diary of a Violent-tempered Man" (1887)
- INDEX OF THE CHEKHOV STORIES ON THIS SITE
DICKENS
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THE 15 NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS
- "The Pickwick Papers" (1837) by Charles Dickens
- "Oliver Twist" (1838), by Charles Dickens
- "Nicholas Nickleby" (1839) by Charles Dickens
- "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1841) by Charles Dickens
- "Barnaby Rudge" (1841) by Charles Dickens
- "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) - where Charles Dickens goes to America
- "Dombey and Son" (1846) by Charles Dickens
- "David Copperfield" (1850) by Charles Dickens
- "Bleak House" (1853) by Charles Dickens
- "Hard Times" (1854) by Charles Dickens
- “Little Dorrit” (1857) by Charles Dickens
- "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) by Charles Dickens
- "Great Expectations" (1861) by Charles Dickens
- "Our Mutual Friend" (1865), by Charles Dickens
- "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (1869) - the last work of Charles Dickens
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STORIES AND ESSAYS BY CHARLES DICKENS
- "The Five Sisters of York" and "The Baron of Grogzwig" — tales by Charles Dickens from his novel "Nicolas Nickleby"
- "A Christmas Carol" (1843) by Charles Dickens
- "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) - a great late story by Charles Dickens
- "In Memoriam to William Makepeace Thackeray" - by Charles Dickens
JACK LONDON
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A SELECTION OF JACK LONDON STORIES
- "A Klondike Wooing" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
- "A Klondike Christmas" and other stories of the Far North, by Jack London
- The Science-fiction stories of Jack London
- "In the Time of Prince Charley" and other stories by Jack London
- "Make Westing" and other stories by Jack London
- "The Pearls of Parlay" and other stories by Jack London
- More of Jack London’s best Far North stories
- "The White Man’s Way" and other Klondike stories by Jack London
- "Before Adam" (1906) - a prehistoric adventure novella by Jack London
- Jack London’s boxing stories
- "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (1902) - an adventure novella by Jack London
- "The Sunlanders" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
- "By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
- "The Call of the Wild" (1903) by Jack London
- Jack London’s two war stories
- A selection of South Seas stories by Jack London
- Twelve of Jack London’s best Far North stories
- Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
- Jack London’s funniest story: "That Spot" (1908)
- "The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - a memorable Hobo story by Jack London
- INDEX OF THE JACK LONDON STORIES ON THIS SITE
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A SELECTION OF JACK LONDON NOVELS
- "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London (1915)
- "The Little Lady of the Big House" by Jack London (1916)
- "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)
- "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London
- "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London
- "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London
- "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism
- "White Fang" (1906) by Jack London
- "Burning Daylight" (1910) - Jack London’s last Klondike novel
- "The Sea Wolf" (1904) by Jack London
- JACK LONDON MEMOIRS
MAUPASSANT
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A SELECTION OF MAUPASSANT STORIES
- "The Window" and other Gallic stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "On a Spring Evening" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "A Christmas Tale (Conte de Noël)" by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Thief" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Olive Grove" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "A Family Affair" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- Corsican stories by Maupassant
- "Suicides" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Burning Log" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "At the Spa" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "On the Water" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "Solitude" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Night" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- The adventures of the Marquise and the Baroness — three of Guy de Maupassant’s most amusing (and amoral) stories
- "La petite Roque" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "An Outing in the Countryside" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "Boule de Suif" and other famous stories by Guy de Maupassant
- INDEX OF THE MAUPASSANT STORIES ON THIS SITE
STEFAN ZWEIG
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A SELECTION OF STEFAN ZWEIG STORIES AND ESSAYS
- "Scarlet Fever" by Stefan Zweig (1908)
- "Twilight Story" by Stefan Zweig (1908)
- "Unexpected Acquaintance with a Craft" by Stefan Zweig (1934)
- "Springtime in the Prater (Praterfrühling)" by Stefan Zweig (1900)
- "Forgotten Dreams" (1900), Stefan Zweig’s remarkable first published story
- "The Love of Erika Ewald" (1904), an early masterpiece by Stefan Zweig
- "The Debt Paid Late (1941)" – one of Stefan Zweig’s best stories now available on-line in English
- "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" by Stefan Zweig (1925)
- "Fear (Angst)" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
- "The Fantastic Night (Phantastische Nacht)" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
- "Amok" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
- "Chess Story (Schachnovelle)" (1942) by Stefan Zweig
- "Mendel the Book-dealer (Buchmendel)" (1929) by Stefan Zweig
- "The Invisible Collection" and other stories by Stefan Zweig
- "Burning Secret" (1911) by Stefan Zweig
- "The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" – Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history
- "Letter From an Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten)" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
- "In the Snow" and other stories by Stefan Zweig
- INDEX OF THE STEFAN ZWEIG TEXTS ON THIS SITE
A. E. van VOGT
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A SELECTION OF VAN VOGT STORIES
- "Not Only Dead Men" (1942): an early A. E. van Vogt story
- "The Flight That Failed" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt and E. M. Hull
- More of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories
- Three of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories: "Itself" (1963), "Lost: Fifty Suns" (1972) and "The Timed Clock" (1972)
- "The Expendables" and other late-period stories by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Ghost" and other golden-age stories by A. E. van Vogt
- "Ride In, Killer!" (1951) - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Perfect Day" (1981) by A. E. van Vogt - never before published in English
- The Silkie Stories (1964-1967) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished!
- "The Weapon Shop" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
- "War of Nerves" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
- "M33 in Andromeda" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt
- "Discord in Scarlet" by A. E. van Vogt (1939)
- "Black Destroyer" (1939) - the original text of A. E. van Vogt’s first published s-f story
- The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt
- Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt
- "Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology
- "Destination: Universe!" - A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
- "Dormant" (1948) - a great golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt
- "Vault of the Beast" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first s-f story
- "The Sea Thing" (1940) by A. E. van Vogt
- "Centaurus II" (1947) by A. E. van Vogt - a golden-age novelette never before republished
- "The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story
- "The Beast" - an early van Vogt novella now available for the first time since 1943
- "The Shadow Men" (1950) — an outstanding golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished
- Index of van Vogt stories on this site
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A SELECTION OF VAN VOGT NOVELS
- "The Winged Man" (1966), a novel by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
- "Cosmic Encounter" (1980) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Universe Maker" (1953) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Mixed Men" novel (1952) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt – the “fix-up” novel
- "The Weapon Makers" (1943) - the original version of A. E. van Vogt’s first "Weapon Shop" novel (never before republished)
- "The Book of Ptath" (1943) - A. E. van Vogt’s only fantasy novel
- "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt
- "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt
- "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel
- "The Voyage of The Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
STORIES
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- "The Love Song of the Tomcat Murr" by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1821)
- "Twice-Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837)
- "Youth is Beautiful" by Hermann Hesse (1916)
- "Granite" (1853) by the Austrian writer and painter Adalbert Stifter
- "Immensee" (1849) by Theodor Sturm
- "Cards at Dawn" (aka Night Games) by Arthur Schnitzler (1926)
- "The Stone Heart " by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1817)
- "Gambler’s Luck" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1820)
- "Mozart’s Journey From Vienna to Prague" by Eduard Mörike (1855)
- “Caliph Stork” and 7 other fairy tales by Wilhelm Hauff (1826)
- "The Engagement in St. Domingo" by Heinrich von Kleist (1811)
- "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll (1871)
- "The Story of the Good Kasperl and the Pretty Annerl" by Clemens Brentano (1817)
- "The Marquise of O..." by Heinrich von Kleist (1808)
- "Investigations of a Dog" (1922) by Franz Kafka
- "Literary Lapses" - 40 tales by Stephen Leacock (1910)
- "The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
- "Casanova’s Homecoming" (1918) by Arthur Schnitzler
- "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" (1914) - 8 tales by Stephen Leacock
- "White Nights" (1848) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "Lieutenant Gustl" (1900) by Arthur Schnitzler
- "The Cremona Violin (Rat Krespel)" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1818)
- "The District Doctor" (1848) by Ivan Turgenev
- "The Queen of Spades" (1834) by Alexander Pushkin
- "Counterparts" (1914) by James Joyce
- "The Sandman" (1816) by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- "The Burrow (Der Bau)" (1922) by Franz Kafka
- "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "A Report to an Academy" (1920) by Franz Kafka
- "Candide" (1759) by Voltaire
- "The Wonderful Story of Peter Schlemihl" by Adelbert von Chamisso (1814)
- "The Judgement (Das Urteil)" (1913), by Franz Kafka
- "The Marble Statue" (1819) by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- "A Country Doctor" (1918) by Franz Kafka
- "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" - 12 Tales by Stephen Leacock (1912)
- "A Hunger Artist" (1922) by Franz Kafka
- "Don Juan" (1813), by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- "The Golden Pot" (1819) by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- "Little Zaches, called Zinnober" (1819) by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- "The Metamorphosis" (1915) by Franz Kafka
- "Petersburg Tales" - 5 stories by Nikolai Gogol
- "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll
- "A Simple Soul (Un cœur simple)" by Gustave Flaubert (1877)
- Herman Melville’s masterful story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853)
- "Nutcracker and the Mouse-King" (1816) – a fairy-tale for everyone by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- "From the Life of a Good-for-nothing (Taugenichts)" (1826) — a Romantic classic by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- "Animal Farm" (1945) by George Orwell
- "War" (1918): Luigi Pirandello’s memorable story about parenthood in wartime
- "The Promenade (Der Spaziergang)" (1917) by Robert Walser
- "The Bottle Imp" (1891) - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A selection of 3 of Nelson Algren’s best short stories
- Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)
- "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka
- "The Mysterious Cup" (Der Pokal, 1812) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism
- "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann, an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave – or else!
- "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
- INDEX OF ALL THE STORIES ON THIS SITE, BY AUTHOR
SCI-FI
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- "The Time Machine" (1895) by H. G. Wells
- "Who Goes There?" (1938) - an iconic sci-fi story by John Campbell
- "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner
- "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn
- "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
- "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown
- "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" by Harry Bates (1940)
- "He Who Shrank" (1936) by Henry Hasse
- "The Star Mouse" (1942) by Frederick Brown
- "Correspondence Course" (1945) by Raymond F. Jones
- "The Twonky" (1942) by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (Lewis Padgett)
- "Uncommon Sense" (1945) by Hal Clement
- The funniest golden-age s-f story: "The Proud Robot" (1943) by Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett)
- "A Matter of Size" (1934) by Harry Bates
- "Skirmish (Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!)" (1950) by Clifford Simak
- "When Time Was New" (1964) by Robert F. Young
- "The Wishes We Make" (1943) by E. Mayne Hull
- The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg
- Two "Sci-fi drink" stories by Kingsley Amis
- INDEX OF THE SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES ON THIS SITE, BY AUTHOR
NOVELS
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- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain (1876)
- "Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy (1874)
- "Middlemarch" by George Eliot (1872)
- "The Eustache Diamonds" by Anthony Trollope (1870)
- "The Last Chronicle of Barset" by Anthony Trollope (1867)
- "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot (1860)
- "Barchester Towers" by Anthony Trollope (1857)
- "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville (1850)
- "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
- "Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray (1848)
- "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë (1847)
- "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin (1813)
- "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austin (1811)
- "Tristam Shandy" by Laurence Sterne (1759)
- "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by Henry Fielding (1749)
- "Gulliver’s Travels" by Jonathan Swift (1729)
- "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe (1719)
- "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James (1898)
- "Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie (1911)
- "Treasure Island" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe
- "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927) by B. Traven
- "The Death Ship" (1926) by B. Traven
- "The War of the Worlds" (1898) by H. G. Wells
- "Dead Souls" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
- "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell (1949)
- "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum
- INDEX OF THE NOVELS ON THIS SITE, BY AUTHOR
MEMOIRS
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- "Letter to Father" (1919) by Franz Kafka
- "Anabasis, or The Retreat of the Ten Thousand", by Xenophon
- "Commentaries on the Gallic War" by Julius Caesar
- "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) by George Orwell
- "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) by George Orwell
- "Typee" (1846) by Herman Melville - a fascinating account of life in a South Sea island before the spread of Western civilization
- "Children of Yesterday" – Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-45
- "Out of the Night" (1941) by Jan Valtin – an extraordinary memoir of life in the international Communist movement between the two World Wars
- Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)
POETRY
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- "Tobacco Shop (Tabacaria)" by Fernando Pessoa (1928)
- "Waiting for the Barbarians" (1904) by Constantin Cavafy
- An anthology of famous French poems, with their English translations
- A selection of Tang Dynasty poems
- The Lyrical Ballads (1798) version of Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" – the original and arguably most authentic text
- "Sonnets From the Prison of Moabit" (1944-45) by Albrecht Haushofer - a modern triumph of the human spirit
- "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1859), translated by Edward Fitzgerald
- The Lyrical Ballads (1798) version of Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey" - the original and most authentic text
- Thoughts on reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", translated by Edward Fitzgerald
- An anthology of great English poems
ESSAYS
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- "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Étienne de la Boétie (1548)
- English is a wordy language!
- The Great Baseball Scandal - how the Mob won the 1919 World Series, by Nelson Algren
- Our selection of the world’s greatest novels
- More of the world’s greatest novels
- Interesting things read recently that I would like to share with you
- "I Love Awfully Bad Writing", by James Clarke
- "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling", by Mark Twain
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GERMAN STUDIES
- German prefixes and suffixes - an overview
- A comparative study of the vocabulary of the greatest Western authors – and the winner is: THOMAS MANN
- Lexical analysis of "The Magic Mountain": more than 3,300 neologisms and an unparalleled number of different words (36,097) !
- Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)
- German Literature – a personal survey
- The average number of meanings per word in German
- A 34,000-word German-English literary dictionary
- "The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain