Literary Fiction
The Murder of Delicia
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Marie Corelli
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 01
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …
La cruzada de los niños
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Marcel Schwob
La cruzada de los niños, constituye una joya de la literatura universal en la que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho mon&o…
The Later Life
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Louis Couperus
Set in the stifling world of turn of the century Dutch aristocracy, the second volume of the 'Books of the Small Souls' quartet, begins wher…
De Ellendigen - Deel 3 - Marius
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Victor Hugo
De Ellendigen is een vertaling van Les Miserables, een sociale roman, met een sterke moraal. Hugo neemt het in zijn werk op voor de paria’s …
Un Viaje de Novios
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Emilia Pardo Bazán
Publicada en 1881, esta novela de la condesa Pardo Bazán narra el viaje de una pareja que ha contraído un matrimonio de conven…
The Quest of the Golden Girl
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Richard Le Gallienne
The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God mea…
The Gardener and The Burden
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Rudyard Kipling
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
The Unknown Masterpiece
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Honoré de Balzac
“The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earli…
Unveiling a Parallel
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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and El…
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
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Émile Zola
The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Kopal-Kundala
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
A story of love and innocence, by one of India's most loved novelist/ poets of the 20th century, the mentor of Rabindrath Tagore. (Summary b…
The Twilight of the Souls
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Louis Couperus
The third book in Louis Couperus' Books of the Small Souls quartet. The Twilight of the Souls begins some months after the conclusion of The…
Last Post
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…
The Uncalled
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Thornton Wilder
The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…
Scarlet Sister Mary
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Julia Peterkin
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…