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Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially Will
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially Will
Newton Booth Tarkington
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Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly before World War I. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914, and collected in a single volume in 1916, when it was the bestselling novel in the United States.
Penrod
Penrod
Newton Booth Tarkington
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Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In Penrod, Tarkington established characters who appeared in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929). The three books were published together in one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931.
Alexander's Bridge
Alexander's Bridge
Willa Cather
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Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It also ran as a serial in McClure's, giving Cather some free time from her work for that magazine.
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Whisperer in Darkness
H.P. Lovecraft
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The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first collected in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Carter, a weird fiction writer, who is likely the Randolph Carter who features in some of Lovecraft's other tales such as The Statement of Randolph Carter, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area. He contends that because such an entity cannot be perceived by the five senses, it becomes impossible to quantify and accurately describe, thus earning itself the term unnamable.
The Tree on the Hill
The Tree on the Hill
H.P. Lovecraft
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The story is written in first person. It depicts the main character going outside Hampden and finding a special tree. The tree makes him day dream about a big temple in a land with three suns. The temple was half-violet, half-blue. Some shadows attracted him into the inside. He thought he saw three flaming eyes watching him and he shouted twice and the vision was gone.
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Strange High House in the Mist
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which is perched on the top of cliff which seems inaccessible both by land and sea, yet is apparently inhabited. Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited.
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy.
Die künstlichen Paradiese
Die künstlichen Paradiese
Charles Baudelaire
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Die Werke des franz?sischen Dichters Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) inspirieren bis heute Künstler auf der ganzen Welt. Sein Essay Die künstlichen Paradiese von 1860 ist ein leidenschaftliches Pl?doyer für den Rausch, die F?higkeit und Bereitschaft zum Ausnahmezustand des Geistes und der Sinne.
Within a Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II
Within a Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II
Marcel Proust
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First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.” For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of ? la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
Winnetou 4
Winnetou 4
Karl May
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Der Schriftsteller Karl May erh?lt in Radebeul Post aus Amerika und bricht daraufhin mit seiner Frau, dem Herzle, zu seiner letzten Reise dorthin auf. Seinem Blutsbruder Winnetou soll ein Denkmal gesetzt werden. Karl May / Old Shatterhand trifft alte Bekannte, deren Nachwuchs und zahlreiche symbolreiche Handlungstr?ger und kann den Bau des Monumentaldenkmals gerade noch abwenden. Der Band kommt in Gestalt der alten Reiseberichte daher, aber doch ist vieles anders geworden. Die Gewehre hat Old Shatterhand zwar immer noch (oder wieder) dabei, sie werden aber nicht mehr gebraucht und sind auch deshalb fast die ganze Zeit im Gep?ck. Nicht mehr mit der "Schmetterhand" werden die "Feinde" besiegt, sondern h?chstens noch durch List und die Gewalt des Wortes. Ganz im Friedensgedanken seiner Sp?twerke werden am Ende alle "Feindschaften" mit den alten Widersachern des Westens in Freundschaft aufgel?st. Sogar die zum Hauptschurken Santer stellvertretend mit dessen S?hnen.
Durch die Wüste
Durch die Wüste
Karl May
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Durch die nordafrikanische Wüste reiten Kara Ben Nemsi und Hadschi Halef Omar. Der Fund einer Leiche am Schott Dscherid wird zum Ausgangspunkt eines langen Abenteuers. Sie befreien eine Gefangene aus einem Harem, werden von Piraten überfallen, gelangen nach Mekka, lernen Sir David Lindsay kennen, lenken ein Araberheer im "Tal der Stufen" und befinden sich schlie?lich auf einer Rettungsmission.
Durch das Land der Skipetaren
Durch das Land der Skipetaren
Karl May
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Durch das Land der Skipetaren folgen Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Gef?hrten den Spuren der Verbrecher. Dabei begegnen sie unversehens den beiden gefürchteten "Aladschy", gelangen zur "Schluchthütte", die ihnen zur Falle werden soll, und erleben eine ebenso dramatische wie lustige Episode im "Turm der alten Mutter".
L’Art de faire des livres
L’Art de faire des livres
Washington Irving
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Extrait du Livre d'esquisses (The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, 1819-1820)
Von Bagdad nach Stambul
Von Bagdad nach Stambul
Karl May
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Scheik Mohammed Emin stirbt bei einem Kurden-?berfall, sein Sohn trennt sich von den Reisegef?hrten, um die T?ter zu verfolgen. Im Pesthauch der Todeskarawane werden Kara Ben Nemsi und Halef von schwerer Krankheit befallen und erreichen Damaskus. Bei den Ruinen von Baalbek begegnen sie einem alten Widersacher.
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare
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The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1588–1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First Tetralogy".
Richard II
Richard II
William Shakespeare
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King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, and Henry V. It may not have been written as a stand-alone work.
10 Reisegeschichten
10 Reisegeschichten
Karl May
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Der Schut Durch das Land der Skipetaren Durch die Wüste Durchs wilde Kurdistan In den Schluchten des Balkan Von Bagdad nach Stambul Winnetou 1 Winnetou 2 Winnetou 3 Winnetou 4
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it.
Gothic Fiction Collection
Gothic Fiction Collection
Various Authors
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The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg St. John's Eve - Nikolai Gogol The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin Berenice - Edgar Allan Poe Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Nose - Nikolai Gogol The Minister's Black Veil - Nathaniel Hawthorne Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Ligeia - E. A. Poe The Fall of the House of Usher - E. A. Poe The Masque of the Red Death - E. A. Poe The Oval Portrait - E. A. Poe The Pit and the Pendulum - E. A. Poe The Black Cat - E. A. Poe The Tell-Tale Heart - E. A. Poe Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Double - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bront? Wuthering Heights - Emily Bront? Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer Villette - Charlotte Bront? The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne Bleak House - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Damned (Là-bas) - Joris-Karl Huysmans The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Trilby - George du Maurier Dracula - Bram Stoker The Beetle - Richard Marsh The Turn of the Screw - Henry James The Real Thing - Henry James The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker The Outsider - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Swiss Family Robinson: Or Adventures in a Desert Island
The Swiss Family Robinson: Or Adventures in a Desert Island
Johann David Wyss
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"Swiss Family Robinson" is the classic tale of a Swiss pastor, his wife and their four sons who find themselves shipwrecked on an isolated tropical island. Along with a couple of dogs, some livestock, pigeons and geese, "Swiss Family Robinson," is the story of a family's struggle to survive in a foreign land isolated from society. Everyday brings a new adventure and a new obstacle to overcome. Above all, "Swiss Family Robinson" is a classic tale of adventure that can be enjoyed by readers both young and old.