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all the statistics on one overview page

in alphabetic order, summariing all the texts by each autor on this site

including all of his translations done specially for this site

All of the translations into English on this site 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 ourselves 247 translations of French, German and Russian texts to enable them to be available on this site in on-line and e-book formats for English-language readers everywhere: The (…)

Welcome to Prospero’s Isle, a site designed to make great works of world literature available in English in online and e-book formats, free of charge and free of publicity.
Centred on outstanding stories by the great writers whose works in this format have best passed the test of time in our opinion, the site also contains most of the greatest English-language novels free of copyright as well as a good number of major memoirs, poems and essays.