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• "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1922) - a masterful story of great intensity by Stefan Zweig

  19 May by Stefan Zweig

  The great Viennese-Austrian author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a prolific writer of short stories, novelettes, novellas, historical studies, essays, memoirs, and letters – as well as several plays, two books of poetry, an opera libretto and one full-length novel .
  The 14,400-word novelette (...)

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

  11 May 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 (...)

• A selection of Nelson Algren’s best short stories

  21 July 2018 by Nelson Algren

  Nelson Algren (1909-1981), author notably of the novels Never Come Morning (1942), The Man With the Golden Arm (1949) and A Walk On the Wild Side (1956), of the essay Chicago, City on the Make (1951) and of the short-story anthology The Neon Wilderness (1947), had a special talent (...)

• Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)

  19 May 2018 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

  The brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), co-authors of an extremely monumental modern German-language dictionary, are first and foremost renowned in the academic circles of their homeland as two of the main founders of German philology.
  But of course among us lesser (...)

• "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka

  15 May 2018 by Franz Kafka

  A visiting European researcher is invited by the military commander of a penal colony to witness the execution of a soldier condemned for insubordination that is to be carried out in a very special manner by a very special machine that has performed the same task very many times in the past. (...)