Literary Fiction
Extaze
Het verhaal van een onmogelijke liefde. Naar mijne meening is het werk 'Extaze' zeer superieur aan de vorige werken van den Heer Couperus, '…
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…
Psyche
Psyche is een poëtische vertelling, symboliseerend een opvatting van Mensch en Wereld. Drie factoren beheerschen het menschenbestaan, d…
Nouvelles
Ceci est une collection de huit nouvelles de la plume de l'auteur russe Léonid Andreïev (1871-1919), traduites par Serge Persky …
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
Uther and Igraine
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)
After the Divorce
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their exten…
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…
A Daughter of Today
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
The Chouans
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
El cocodrilo
Un acontecimiento extraordinario, o el relato verídico que refiere cómo a un caballero de cierta edad y mucho respeto se lo tr…
Bliss
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Martin Schüler
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
At a Winter's Fire
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short da…
Doña Berta
Una anciana solterona, última descendiente de los Rondaliego, cuya existencia transcurre íntegramente en un rincón de A…
Doña Perfecta
Doña Perfecta es una novela de Benito Pérez Galdós que muestra el choque entre dos mundos: el de don Ramón, jove…
Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Die sprichwörtliche „blaue Blume “ der Poesie hat ihren Ursprung in diesem Roman Novalis'. Novalis verwebt in diesem Bildungsroman M&a…
Tiempos difíciles
Con esta novela ambientada en la era de la revolución industrial, en una imaginada localidad londinense cuyo pueblo vive bajo el adoc…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Half-Past Bedtime
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the K…