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This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh…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

William the Silent

In History of Holland

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George Edmundson


The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province…

Chapter 49

In Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It …

Chapter 4

In Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

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Rene Descartes and René Descartes


The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

The Inhuman Wolf and the Lamb Sans Gene

In Fables for the Frivolous

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Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were origina…

The Musgrave ritual

In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devise…

Chapter XI: The Back Room

In The Paradise Mystery

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J.S. Fletcher and J. S. Fletcher


A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery.…

Erlkönig

In Sammlung deutscher Gedichte 001

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Eine Sammlung 20 deutscher Gedichte für LibriVox.

Chapter 06

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

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The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

07 - The Baron's Embassy

In Sylvie and Bruno

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Lewis Carroll


The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…

Chapter XI

In The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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Edgar Wallace


Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scot…