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• "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum

  17 February by L. Frank Baum

  L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) was a prolific author of novels, short stories, poetry and theatre plays who achieved everlasting posthumous fame when this wonderful story about the adventures of Dorothy and her faithful companions (her dog Toto, a scarecrow without brains, a tin woodman without a (...)

• "Lalie’s Story", from Zola’s novel "L’Assommoir" (1877)

  8 May 2020 by Emile Zola

  Lalie is an eight-year-old girl living in the room next to Gervaise, the central character of Emile Zola’s novel "L’Assommoir" about life in a working-class district of Paris in the 1850s and 60s.
  She is one of the most unforgettable characters in that masterwork, although she only appears in (...)

• "War" (1918): Luigi Pirandello’s memorable story about parenthood in wartime

  1 March 2020 by Luigi Pirandello

  Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was celebrated in his native Italy as a short-story writer before he achieved international acclaim towards the end of his career for ground-breaking modern plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Henry IV (1922) and Tonight We Improvise (1930). (...)

• "The Promenade (der Spaziergang)" (1917) by Robert Walser

  15 August 2019 by Robert Walser

  Robert Walser (1878-1956) was a Swiss-German poet and author of novels, short stories and essays who is remembered particularly for his delicate and yet somehow powerful poems [1] and this quite wonderful monologue about his encounters and observations and thoughts during a pleasant stroll on a (...)

• "The Bottle Imp" (1891) - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson

  11 May 2019 by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author of the immortal Treasure Island (1883) and other notable works such as Travels with a Donkey (1879), Kidnapped (1886) and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), was born and educated in Scotland and remained deeply attached to his (...)