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Chekhov

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• ALL
  • SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS OF ALL OF ANTON CHEKHOV’S 523 STORIES
• CHEKHOV TEXTS ON THIS SITE
  • ANTHOLOGIES AND ARTICLES
    • "A Confession" and other early Chekhov stories with a humorous touch
    • "Volodya" by Anton Chekhov (1887)
    • "The Examining Magistrate" by Anton Chekhov (1887)
    • "An Adventure (a driver’s story)" by Anton Chekhov (1887)
    • "The Tenant" by Anton Chekhov (1886)
    • "Women Make Trouble" by Anton Chekhov (1886)
    • "The Wolf" by Anton Chekhov (1886)
    • "Mari d’elle" by Anton Chekhov (1885)
    • "The Lady with the Dog" and 11 other great stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "Easter Eve" and 13 other great Chekhov stories
    • Anton Chekhov’s funniest story: "From the Diary of a Violent-tempered Man" (1887)
    • "Ward No. 6" and thirteen other memorable stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "The Huntsman" and 14 other Chekhov stories
    • "Anyuta" and 14 other renowned Chekhov stories
    • "A Visit With Friends" by Anton Chekhov (1898)
    • "The Black Monk" and 14 other outstanding stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "The Sinner from Toledo" - a denunciation of religious extremism by Anton Chekhov (1881)
    • "A Living Calendar" and 9 other stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "In Autumn" by Anton Chekhov (1883)
    • "Nothing To Be Done!" and 11 other Chekhov stories
    • "Saintly Simplicity" by Anton Chekhov (1885)
    • Fourteen of the best previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
    • "Lost Business" and 13 other Chekhov stories
    • "To Cure a Drinking Bout" and 11 other stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "The Terrible Night" and 8 other humorous stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "The Tragedian" and 9 other stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "An Unpleasantness" by Anton Chekhov (1888)
    • A selection of Chekhov’s captions to humorous drawings
    • "An Enigmatic Nature" and 14 other stories by Anton Chekhov
    • "The Nightingale’s Benefit Performance" by Anton Chekhov (1883)
    • "A Living Chattel" and 9 other stories by Anton Chekhov

Dickens

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• SYNOPSES
  • SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS OF ALL THE NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS
• DICKENS NOVELS ON THIS SITE
  • novels
    • "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
• STORIES AND ESSAYS
  • "The Five Sisters of York" and "The Baron of Grogzwig" — tales by Charles Dickens from his novel "Nicolas Nickleby"
  • "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens (1843)
  • "In Memoriam to William Makepeace Thackeray" - by Charles Dickens
  • "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) - a great late story by Charles Dickens

Jack London

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• Synopses
  • SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS OF ALL THE STORIES AND NOVELS OF JACK LONDON
• THE 158 JACK LONDON STORIES ON THIS SITE
  • STORY ANTHOLOGIES
    • Seven more of Jack London’s best stories
    • Twelve of Jack London’s best Far North stories (1899-1908)
    • More of Jack London’s best Far North stories (1899-1912)
    • Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London (1898-1908)
    • "The Sunlanders" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London (1899-1911)
    • "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
    • Jack London’s boxing stories (1905-1911)
    • Jack London’s funniest story: "That Spot" (1908)
    • "The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - a memorable Hobo story by Jack London
    • "The Scarlet Plague" by Jack London (1912)
    • A selection of outstanding South Seas stories by Jack London
    • The Science-fiction stories of Jack London
    • "The White Man’s Way" and other Klondike stories by Jack London
    • "A Klondike Christmas" and other stories of the Far North, by Jack London
    • "A Klondike Wooing" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
    • "In the Time of Prince Charley" and other stories by Jack London
    • "The Cruise of the Dazzler" - an adventure novella by Jack London
    • "Before Adam" - a prehistoric adventure novella by Jack London
    • "Make Westing" and other stories by Jack London
    • "The Kanaka Surf" and other stories by Jack London
    • "The Captain of the Susan Drew" and other stories by Jack London
    • "By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
    • Jack London’s two war stories
• THE 10 JACK LONDON NOVELS ON THIS SITE
  • novels
    • "The Sea Wolf" (1904) by Jack London
    • "White Fang" by Jack London (1906)
    • "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism
    • "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London
    • "Burning Daylight" (1910) - Jack London’s last Klondike novel
    • "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London
    • "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London
    • "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London (1915)
    • "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)
    • "The Little Lady of the Big House" by Jack London (1916)
• JACK LONDON MEMOIRS
  • "The Road" (1907) - Jack London’s vivid account of his hobo days
  • "Through the South Seas with Jack London" by Martin Johnson (1913)
  • "The People of the Abyss" – Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End (1903)

Maupassant

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• THE 185 MAUPASSANT STORIES ON THIS SITE
  • Anthologies
    • "The Colonel’s Ideas" by Guy de Maupassant (1884)
    • "The Legend of Mont-Saint-Michel" by Guy de Maupassant (1882)
    • "Marroca" - Maupassant’s torrid account of love under the African sun (1882)
    • "The Odyssey of a Street Girl" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "Boule de Suif" and other famous stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "La petite Roque" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "An Outing in the Countryside" 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
    • "The Night" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "Solitude" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "On the Water" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "At the Spa" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "The Burning Log" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "Suicides" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • Corsican stories by Maupassant
    • "A Family Affair" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "The Olive Grove" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "The Thief" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "A Christmas Tale (Conte de Noël)" by Guy de Maupassant
    • "On a Spring Evening" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "The Window" and other Gallic stories by Guy de Maupassant
    • "The Heritage" – a major novella by Guy de Maupassant (1884)
• SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS
  • SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS OF ALL 300 STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT

A. E. van Vogt

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• THE 15 VAN VOGT NOVELS ON THIS SITE
  • novels
    • "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous 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 World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt
    • "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt
    • "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt
    • "The Voyage of The Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
    • "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt – the “fix-up” novel
    • "The Mixed Men" novel (1952) by A. E. van Vogt
    • "The Universe Maker" (1953) by A. E. van Vogt
    • "Planets for Sale" by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull (1954)
    • "The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt
    • "The War Against the Rull" by A. E. van Vogt (1959)
    • "The Winged Man" (1966), a novel by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
    • "Cosmic Encounter" (1980) by A. E. van Vogt
• SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS
  • SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS OF ALL THE STORIES AND NOVELS OF A. E. VAN VOGT
• STORIES
  • ANTHOLOGIES AND ARTICLES
    • "Black Destroyer" (1939) - the original text of A. E. van Vogt’s first published s-f story
    • "Discord in Scarlet" by A. E. van Vogt (1939)
    • "The Sea Thing" by A. E. van Vogt (1940)
    • Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt (1940-1951)
    • "Vault of the Beast" – the first s-f story written by A. E. van Vogt (1940)
    • "The Ghost" by A. E. van Vogt (1942)
    • "Not Only Dead Men" (1942): an early A. E. van Vogt story
    • "The Weapon Shop" by A. E. van Vogt (1942)
    • "The Flight That Failed" by A. E. van Vogt and E. M. Hull (1942)
    • "The Witch" by A. E. van Vogt (1943)
    • "Abdication" by A. E. van Vogt and E. M. Hull (1943)
    • "M33 in Andromeda" by A. E. van Vogt (1943)
    • The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt (1943-1945)
    • "The Beast" - an early van Vogt novella now available for the first time since 1943
    • "Juggernaut" and other golden-age stories by A. E. van Vogt (1944-1951)
    • "The Cataaaaa" by A. E. van Vogt (1947)
    • "Centaurus II" by A. E. van Vogt (1947) - a golden-age novelette never before republished
    • "The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story
    • "Dormant" - a great golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt (1948)
    • "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished!
    • "The Shadow Men" (1950) — an outstanding golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished
    • "War of Nerves" by A. E. van Vogt (1950)
    • "Ride In, Killer!" - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt (1951)
    • "Destination: Universe!" - A. E. van Vogt’s first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
    • "Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology
    • Three of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories (1963-1972)
    • "The Expendables" and other late-period stories by A. E. van Vogt (1963-1978)
    • The Silkie Stories by A. E. van Vogt (1964-1967)
    • More of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories (1965-1986)
    • "The Perfect Day" by A. E. van Vogt (1981) - never before published in English

Stefan Zweig

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• THE 28 STEFAN ZWEIG STORIES ON THIS SITE
  • Stories
    • "The Downfall of a Heart" by Stefan Zweig (1927)
    • "Confusion" by Stefan Zweig (1927)
    • "Forgotten Dreams", Stefan Zweig’s remarkable first published story (1900)
    • "Springtime in the Prater" by Stefan Zweig (1900)
    • "In the Snow" (1901) and other stories by Stefan Zweig
    • "The Love of Erika Ewald", an early masterpiece by Stefan Zweig (1904)
    • "Scarlet Fever" by Stefan Zweig (1908)
    • "Twilight Story" by Stefan Zweig (1908)
    • "Burning Secret" by Stefan Zweig (1911)
    • "Fear (Angst)" by Stefan Zweig (1922)
    • "Letter From an Unknown Woman" by Stefan Zweig (1922)
    • "The Fantastic Night" by Stefan Zweig (1922)
    • "Amok" by Stefan Zweig (1922)
    • "The Invisible Collection" (1925) and other stories by Stefan Zweig
    • "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" by Stefan Zweig (1925)
    • "Mendel the Book-dealer" by Stefan Zweig (1929)
    • "Unexpected Acquaintance with a Craft" by Stefan Zweig (1934)
    • "The Debt Paid Late (1941)" – one of Stefan Zweig’s best stories now available on-line in English
    • "Did He Do It?" by Stefan Zweig (1942)
    • "Chess Story" by Stefan Zweig (1942)
• Synopses
  • SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS OF ALL 44 STORIES OF STEFAN ZWEIG

Stories

• STORIES
  • "The Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin de Tarascon" by Alphonse Daudet" (1872)
  • "Monsieur Seguin’s Goat" by Alphonse Daudet (1866)
  • "The Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)" by Thomas Mann (1912)
  • "Spiegel the Cat" by Gottfried Keller (1856) – a marvelous Swiss story now at long last available in English
  • "A Village Romeo and Juliet" by Gottfried Keller (1856)
  • "Candide" by Voltaire (1759)
  • "The Marquise of O..." by Heinrich von Kleist (1808)
  • "The Engagement in St. Domingo" by Heinrich von Kleist (1811)
  • "The Mysterious Cup" by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism (1812)
  • "Don Juan" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1813)
  • "The Wonderful Story of Peter Schlemihl" by Adelbert von Chamisso (1814)
  • "The Sandman" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816)
  • "The Stone Heart" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1817)
  • "The Story of the Good Kasperl and the Pretty Annerl" by Clemens Brentano (1817)
  • "The Cremona Violin (Rat Krespel)" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1818)
  • "Little Zaches, called Zinnober" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1819)
  • "The Golden Pot" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1819)
  • "The Marble Statue" by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1819)
  • "Gambler’s Luck" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1820)
  • "The Love Song of the Tomcat Murr" by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1821)
  • "Maid Marian" by Thomas Love Peacock (1822) – the original Robin Hood story
  • "Caliph Stork" and 7 other fairy tales by Wilhelm Hauff (1826)
  • "From the Life of a Good-for-nothing" - a Romantic classic by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1826)
  • "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac (1831)
  • "Colonel Chabert" by Honoré de Balzac (1832)
  • Selected stories (1832-49) by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin (1834)
  • "Petersburg Tales" - five famous stories by Nikolai Gogol (1835-43)
  • "Twice-Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837)
  • "The District Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev (1848)
  • "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1848)
  • "Immensee" by Theodor Sturm (1849)
  • "Granite" by the Austrian writer and painter Adalbert Stifter (1853)
  • "Mountain Crystal (Bergkristall)" by Adalbert Stifter (1853)
  • Herman Melville’s masterful story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853)
  • "Mozart’s Journey From Vienna to Prague" by Eduard Mörike (1855)
  • "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
  • "A Simple Soul (Un cœur simple)" by Gustave Flaubert (1877)
  • "The Travelling Frog" and other nature stories (1880-87) by Vsevolod Garshin
  • "Plain Tales From the Hills" by Rudyard Kipling (1882)
  • "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  • "The Kreuzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy (1889)
  • "The Bottle Imp" - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
  • "The Inconsiderate Waiter" by J. M. Barrie (1893)
  • "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (1899)
  • "Lieutenant Gustl" by Arthur Schnitzler (1900)
  • "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
  • "Literary Lapses" - 40 tales by Stephen Leacock (1910)
  • "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" - 12 charming tales by Stephen Leacock (1912)
  • "The Judgement (Das Urteil)" by Franz Kafka (1913)
  • "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" - 8 amusing tales by Stephen Leacock (1914)
  • "Counterparts" by James Joyce (1914)
  • "Mrs. Scheer" and 12 other selected short stories (1914-20) by Robert Walser
  • "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (1915)
  • "Youth is Beautiful" by Hermann Hesse (1916)
  • "The Promenade (Der Spaziergang)" by Robert Walser (1917)
  • "A Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka (1918)
  • "Casanova’s Homecoming" by Arthur Schnitzler (1918)
  • "War": Luigi Pirandello’s memorable story about parenthood in wartime (1918)
  • "In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka (1919)
  • "Letter to Father" by Franz Kafka (1919)
  • "A Report to an Academy " by Franz Kafka (1920)
  • "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka (1922)
  • "Investigations of a Dog" by Franz Kafka (1922)
  • "The Burrow (Der Bau)" by Franz Kafka (1922)
  • "The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
  • "Cards at Dawn", aka "Night Games", by Arthur Schnitzler (1926)
  • A selection of 3 of Nelson Algren’s best short stories (1934-47)
  • "Animal Farm" by George Orwell (1945)
  • "A Child’s Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas (1950)

Novels

• NOVELS
  • "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" by Jules Verne (1869)
  • "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann (1924)
  • "Buddenbrooks" by Thomas Mann (1900)
  • "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun (1890)
  • "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
  • "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
  • "The Possessed", aka "Demons/The Devils" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
  • "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
  • "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1868)
  • "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
  • "Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov (1859)
  • "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev (1862)
  • "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
  • "The Adventurous Simplicissimus" by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen (1668)
  • "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe (1719)
  • "Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe (1721)
  • "Gulliver’s Travels" by Jonathan Swift (1726)
  • "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by Henry Fielding (1749)
  • "Tristam Shandy" by Laurence Sterne (1759)
  • "The Sufferings of Young Werther" by Goethe (1774)
  • "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1785-86) by Rudolf Erich Raspe and Gottfried Burger
  • "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen (1811)
  • "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (1813)
  • "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (1818)
  • "Ivanhoe’ by Walter Scott (1819)
  • "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fennimore Cooper (1826)
  • "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Edgar Allan Poe (1837)
  • "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol (1842)
  • "Barry Lyndon" by William Thackeray (1844)
  • "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
  • "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë (1847)
  • "Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray (1848)
  • "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville (1850)
  • "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
  • "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  • "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
  • "Barchester Towers" by Anthony Trollope (1857)
  • "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot (1860)
  • "Notes From the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
  • "The Last Chronicle of Barset" by Anthony Trollope (1867)
  • "The Eustache Diamonds" by Anthony Trollope (1870)
  • "Middlemarch" by George Eliot (1872)
  • "Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy (1874)
  • "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain (1876)
  • "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy (1878)
  • "The Egoist" by George Meredith (1879)
  • "Washington Square" by Henry James (1880)
  • "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James (1881)
  • "Treasure Island" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884)
  • "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy (1886)
  • "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1891)
  • "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy (1891)
  • "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
  • "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy (1895)
  • "The Red Badge of Courage" by Steven Crane (1895)
  • "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells (1895)
  • "Dracula" by Bram Stoker (1897)
  • "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James (1898)
  • "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells (1898)
  • "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum
  • "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
  • "The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler (1903)
  • "Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Adventures" by Selma Lagerlöf (1906)
  • "Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie (1911)
  • "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
  • "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence (1913)
  • "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce (1916)
  • "Ulysses" by James Joyce (1922)
  • "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  • "The Death Ship" (1926) by B. Traven
  • "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927) by B. Traven
  • "Lady Chatterly’s Lover" by D. H. Lawrence (1928)
  • "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton (1932) - the novel of Shangri-La
  • "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1933)
  • ’Nineteen Eighty-Four’’ by George Orwell (1949)

Youth literature

• YOUTH LIT
  • Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)
  • "Nutcracker and the Mouse-King" (1816) – a fairy-tale for everyone by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann, an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave – or else!
  • "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll
  • "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll (1871)
  • "The Jungle Book and other stories" by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
  • "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum
  • "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
  • "Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Adventures" by Selma Lagerlöf (1906)
  • "Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie (1911)
  • "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

Science-fiction

• SCI-FI
  • "The Time Machine" (1895) by H. G. Wells
  • "The War of the Worlds" (1898) by H. G. Wells
  • "A Matter of Size" (1934) by Harry Bates
  • "He Who Shrank" (1936) by Henry Hasse
  • "Who Goes There?" (1938) - an iconic sci-fi story by John Campbell
  • "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" by Harry Bates (1940)
  • "Meteor" by John Wyndham (1941)
  • "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
  • "The Star Mouse" (1942) by Frederick Brown
  • "The Twonky" (1942) by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (Lewis Padgett)
  • "The Wishes We Make" (1943) by E. Mayne Hull
  • The funniest golden-age sci-fi story: "The Proud Robot" (1943) by Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett)
  • "Correspondence Course" (1945) by Raymond F. Jones
  • "Uncommon Sense" (1945) by Hal Clement
  • "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner
  • "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell (1949)
  • "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown
  • "Skirmish (Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!)" (1950) by Clifford Simak
  • "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn
  • Two "Sci-fi drink" stories by Kingsley Amis (1958-64)
  • The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg
  • "When Time Was New" (1964) by Robert F. Young

Sherlock Holmes

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• OVERVIEWS
  • A CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF ALL THE SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES AND NOVELS
• THE ORIGINAL SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY COLLECTIONS
  • "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
  • "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
  • "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1905)
  • "His Last Bow" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1917)
  • "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1927)
  • Two uncollected Sherlock Holmes stories
• SHERLOCK HOLMES NOVELS
  • "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
  • "The Sign of the Four" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
  • "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1901)
  • "The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1915)

Poetry

• poetry texts
  • An anthology of great English poems
  • "One is Taken by an Unknown Hand", a poem by Robert Walser (1933)
  • "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

Memoirs

• MEMOIRS
  • "Memoirs of Captain Alonso de Contreras" (ca. 1640)
  • "A Journal of the Plague Year 1665 in London" by Daniel Defoe (1722)
  • "Typee" (1846) by Herman Melville - a fascinating account of life in a South Sea island before the spread of Western civilization
  • "Walden" by Henry Thoreau – an ecological manifesto (1854)
  • "Memories From the House of the Dead" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1873)
  • "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)
  • "Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov" (1921)
  • "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) by George Orwell
  • "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) by George Orwell
  • "Out of the Night" (1941) by Jan Valtin – an extraordinary memoir of life in the international Communist movement between the two World Wars
  • "Children of Yesterday" – Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-45
  • "Anabasis, or The Retreat of the Ten Thousand", by Xenophon
  • "Commentaries on the Gallic War" by Julius Caesar

Essays

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  • Interesting things read recently that I would like to share with you
  • A comparative analysis of the vocabulary richness (the no. of different words) in 50 of the world’s greatest novels
  • English is a wordy language!
  • The Great Baseball Scandal - how the Mob won the 1919 World Series, by Nelson Algren
  • "The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" – Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history (1940)
  • Our Selection of the World’s Greatest Novels
  • More of the World’s Greatest Novels
  • Thoughts on reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", translated by Edward Fitzgerald
  • "The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain
  • "A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Étienne de la Boétie (1548)
  • "I Love Awfully Bad Writing", by James Clarke
  • "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling", by Mark Twain

German Studies

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  • German "nuance words" (modal particles/Abtönungspartikeln)
  • German prefixes and suffixes - an overview
  • Lexical analysis of Thomas Mann’s "The Magic Mountain": more than 3,300 neologisms and an extraordinary number of different words (36,097) !
  • Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)
  • German-language Literature – a personal survey
  • The average number of meanings per word in German
  • Our 34,000-word German-English literary dictionary
  • German-language literature translated specially for this site
  • The German-language literature in English on this site

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