Literary Fiction
The Merry-Go-Round
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W. Somerset Maugham
Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is…
No More Parades
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Ford Madox Ford
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…
The Red and the Black
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Stendhal
It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…
Het Heilige Weten
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Louis Couperus
Het Heilige Weten is het vierde en laatste deel van de romancyclus "De boeken der kleine zielen".Het is 10 jaar na het derde deel,…
The Rescue
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Joseph Conrad
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
The Magic Mountain (Volume Two)
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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…
Un scrupule et Dualité
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Paul Bourget
Un scrupule, 1893, suivi de Dualité, 1900.L’histoire de Blanche, la « petite » sœur d’Aline, dans le Paris mondain et dem…
Die Psychologie der Erbtante
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Erich Mühsam
Eine Thantologie aus 25 Einzeldarstellungenzur Lösung der Unsterblichkeits-Frage.Margarete Beutler zugeeignet(Zusammenfassung - Unterti…
Sechs Novellen
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Jens Peter Jacobsen
Sechs Novellen, in denen Jens Peter Jacobsen die Menschen beschreibt. Ihr Leben, ihre Gefühle, Wünsche und Ängste. Mit gro&sz…
Lover or Friend
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…
Robert Kimberly
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Frank H. Spearman
The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …
Minnebrieven
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Multatuli
Op het eerste gezicht is Minnebrieven (gepubliceerd in 1861) een brievenroman, met als drie hoofdrolspelers Max en zijn vrouw Tine, en het j…
Het Late Leven
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Louis Couperus
'Het late leven' is het tweede boek in de romancyclus 'De boeken der kleine zielen', en gaat verder direct na het einde van het vorige boek,…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny
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Alexandre Dumas
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…
Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)
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Dorothy Richardson
"Backwater" is the second volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson con…
Lost Diaries
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Maurice Baring
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…
Antic Hay
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Aldous Huxley
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…
Whose Body? (Version 3 - dramatic reading)
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Dorothy L. Sayers
In Dorothy Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, our brilliant and eccentric hero must solve the case of the murder of Sir Reuben Levy - th…
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
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Joseph Conrad
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…