Literature

Der tote Gast

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Heinrich Zschokke


Heinrich Zschokke war in der ersten Hälfte des 19ten Jahrhunderts ein beliebter und viel gelesener Autor, der heute zu Unrecht fast ver…

Faust I

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

Howards End

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E. M. Forster


The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of …

Bleak House

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Charles Dickens


Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to…

Le Cid

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Pierre Corneille


Des deux prétendants de Chimène, son favori semble être agréé par son père. Ce digne fils d'un viei…

Oliver Twist (version 4)

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Charles Dickens


Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

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Leo Tolstoy


The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …

Cousin Phillis

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…

Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2

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Thomas Hardy


Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…

Great Expectations (version 2)

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Charles Dickens


Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…

This Side of Paradise

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

David Copperfield

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Charles Dickens


"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2)

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Mark Twain


A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of…

Little Dorrit (Version 2)

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Charles Dickens


Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…

Cinco Minutos

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Jose de Alencar and José De Alencar


Cinco minutos é o primeiro romance do escritor brasileiro José de Alencar, nome proeminente do romantismo no país. Foi …

War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)

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Leo Tolstoy


”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a …

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

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Mary Shelley


A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…

The House of the Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …

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