Culture & Heritage
Le Mari de Charlotte
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Hector Malot
En Bretagne, puis en Bourgogne et à Paris. Voici Charlotte, son cousin Georges, et Emmanuel, ami de Georges.Monsieur de la Hér…
Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 1
Read by Christiane Jehanne
François-René de Chateaubriand
Ouvrage relatant, depuis l'enfance, la vie de CHATEAUBRIAND, avec l'Histoire de France , Bonaparte, Napoléon, la Restauration, etc...…
Oldtown Folks
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partia…
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
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Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin
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Albert Bushnell Hart
This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor, published May 15, 1918.Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th cen…
Life's Enthusiasms
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David Starr Jordan
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…
Contes du soleil et de la brume
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Anatole Le Braz
Anatole Le Braz fut un écrivain de talent, recueillant des contes, des traditions, des us et coutumes, des croyances, en Bretagne. Br…
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2
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Songling Pu
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai" is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly super…
William, An Englishman
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Cicely Hamilton
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during …
The Magic Mountain (Volume One)
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium hig…
Harrington
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Maria Edgeworth
Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins wi…
Java Head
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Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…
Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan
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William Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Ja…
The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
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Théophile Gautier
The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages
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Wilhelm Wägner
This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
Flor de Santidad. Historia milenaria
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Ramón Del Valle-Inclán and Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Esta historia milenaria cuenta la seducción de una ingenua pastora, Adega, por un peregrino a quien ella identifica con Dios y del qu…
Stories from the Adirondacks
Read by Roger Melin
Albert A. Young
A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of som…
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Arti…
Deutsche Hausmärchen
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Johann Wilhelm Wolf
Johann Wilhelm Wolf war Germanist und Schriftsteller, sein Schwager Wilhelm von Ploennies war Leutnant, Militärschriftsteller und Ü…