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The Watsons

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Jane Austen


This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh…

Über die Weiber

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Arthur Schopenhauer


In diesem vielzitierten Essay aus dem Jahre 1851 ist Schopenhauers generell herablassende Einstellung zu Frauen zusammengefaßt. Frauen…

The Riddle of the Sands

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Erskine Childers


Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

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Mark Twain


Fenimore Cooper - author of The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, etc - has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for hi…

Novelle

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Die Fürstin ist auf einem Spazierritt, als auf einem Jahrmarkt, auf dem auch wilde Tiere ausgestellt sind, ein Feuer ausbricht. Ein ent…

Teil 9 von 9

In Casanovas Heimfahrt

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Arthur Schnitzler


Casanova ist 53 Jahre alt und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als in seine Heimatstadt Venedig, aus der er einst verbannt worden ist, z…

Chapter 17

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

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C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi


The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

MURDER

In The Daffodil Mystery

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Edgar Wallace


Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 17…

Preface

In South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

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Ernest Shackleton


Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …

The Safety Match

In Short Mystery Story Collection 001

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Anton Chekhov


LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

A SMALL PRECAUTION

In Dead Men Tell No Tales

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E.W. Hornung and E. W. Hornung


Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, …

The Man with the Pale Eyes

In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

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Guy de Maupassant


In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

Conclusion

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Jules Verne


Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pea…

The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar

In Japanese Fairy Tales

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Yei Theodora Ozaki


First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…

Version 08

In The Owl and the Pussycat

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Edward Lear


LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

Das Leben ein Sturm

In Ein Sommer in London

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Theodor Fontane


Diese 35 kurzen Reiseberichte entstanden, als Theodor Fontane 1852 zum zweiten Mal nach London reiste. Die Stadt faszinierte ihn, und sowohl…

Einleitung

In Winnetou I

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Karl May


Der deutsche Vermessungsingenieur Old Shatterhand kommt betrügerischen Machenschaften bei der Verlegung einer neuen Eisenbahnlinie durc…