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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 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.
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Statement of Randolph Carter
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
The Picture in the House
The Picture in the House
H.P. Lovecraft
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A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man."
Poetry of the Gods
Poetry of the Gods
H.P. Lovecraft
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Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.P. Lovecraft in collaboration with writer Anna Helen Crofts. The story is very different from the vast majority of Lovecraft's other work and collaborations. It does, however, bear similar themes regarding dreams as a doorway to magic realms, and slumbering gods. The narrative follows the dream-voyage of Marcia, a young woman filled with weariness of the mundane world and all its woes. She resolves to ease her troubled soul by reading a magazine of poetry. As she does, a dream-state unfolds in which the Greek god Hermes appears and bears Marcia to the court of Zeus and the Olympians.
The Moon Bog
The Moon Bog
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921. The story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. In the story, the unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.
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.
The Blue Castle
The Blue Castle
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis from Dr. Trent prompts her to make a fresh start. For the first time, she does and says exactly what she feels. As she expands her limited horizons, Valancy undergoes a transformation, discovering a new world of love and happiness. One of Lucy Maud Montgomery's only novels intended for an adult audience, The Blue Castle is filled with humour and romance.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Celephais
Celephais
H.P. Lovecraft
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Celepha?s was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world. Finally knights guide him through medieval England to his ancestral estate, where he spent his boyhood, and then to Celepha?s. He became the king and chief god of the city, though his body washes up by his ancestors' tower, now owned by a parvenu. In The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Randolph Carter pays a visit to Kuranes, finding that the great dreamer has grown so homesick for his native Cornwall, he has dreamed parts of Celepha?s to resemble the land of his boyhood. Kuranes advises Carter, on a mission to find his own dream-city, to be careful what he wishes for—he might get it.
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".
Henry IV (Complete Plays)
Henry IV (Complete Plays)
William Shakespeare
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Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare's tetralogy that deals with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (2 plays), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. From the start it has been an extremely popular play both with the public and the critics. Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 and succeeded by Henry V.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
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Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses.
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.