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All of the 315 e-books that are available for downloading on this site are listed here in alphabetical order by author and title.
They are all in the standard ePub format, used by all the leading e-book readers and applications, notably Kindle [1] and Kobo. N° AUTHOR_________________________ TITLE______________________________________________________ GENRE_________ SECTION_______ 1 Nelson Algren A Selection of Nelson Aldren’s Best Short Stories anthology Stories 2 Nelson Algren The (…)

All of the many translations into English on this site – 498 at latest count – are of texts free of copyright in the USA, Great Britain, Europe and elsewhere.
As translations are themselves subject to the 70-year rule (an author’s works are free of copyright 70 years after the last day of the year of their death) we have undertaken a considerable number of translations of major French, German and Russian texts to enable them to be available on this site in on-line and e-book formats for (…)

Welcome to Prospero’s Isle, a site designed to make great works of world literature available in English in on-line and e-book formats, free of charge and above all free of publicity.
Centred on short fiction by the great writers whose works in this format have best passed the test of time in our opinion (Chekhov, Maupassant, Jack London and Stefan Zweig, as well as A.E. van Vogt in the science-fiction domain), the site also contains a great many outstanding stories by other writers, as (…)