Published 1800 -1900
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…
Allerlei Gelehrte
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Hans Hoffmann
Humoresken von Hans Hoffmann. Im Anekdoten-ähnelnden Stil erzählt Hoffmann in diesem ruhigen Buch mit großer Menschenkenntni…
Our Street
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Written as an autobiographical sketch of a Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Our Street is a tongue-in-cheek look at English society and the characters who…
Moments With Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in …
Cecilia de Noël
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne
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Guy de Maupassant
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…
Joanna Traill, Spinster
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Annie E. Holdsworth
Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …
Las aventuras de Pinoquio
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Carlo Collodi
Las aventuras de Pinoquio o Pinocho (en italiano: Le avventure di Pinocchio) es una obra literaria escrita por el autor italiano Carlo Collo…
今戸心中 (Imado Shinjyuu)
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Ryūrō Hirotsu
吉里は、吉原に住む花魁です。彼女のなじみ客であった平田が、彼女と別れて故郷の岡山に帰ってしまいます。彼女はこのことを、大変悲しみました。彼女は、もう一人のよく来る客、善吉は冷たくあしらってきました。しかし、彼女は、善吉が彼女の為に、全財産を失ったことを知ります。そして、彼女は、彼…
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3
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George MacDonald
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …
Klaasje Zevenster, deel 1
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Jacob Van Lennep
Een groepje Leidse studenten viert een gezellige Sinterklaasavond in de jaren '20 van de 19e eeuw, als er onverwachts een pakketje aan de de…
Schnock
Read by Claus Misfeldt
Friedrich Hebbel
Hebbel schildert in seiner Kurzgeschichte die Umstände einer zufällig gemachten Reisebekanntschaft. - Summary by Claus Misfeldt
In League With Israel
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Annie Fellows Johnston
When Bethany Hallam travels to Chattanooga for the League Conference, she meets David Herschel, who challenges her thinking and changes her …
The Ralstons
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Francis Marion Crawford
Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her rich uncle's hand in assisting him to find a career. After his refusal, s…
Alice; or The Wages of Sin
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Frederic Werden Pangborn
This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm…
A Traveller from Altruria
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William Dean Howells
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. T…
A House Divided Against Itself
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Margaret O. Oliphant
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." So said Abraham Lincoln in 1858. Here we have the irascible Mr. Waring, an elderly …
Mizora: A Prophecy.
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Mary E Bradley Lane
After being exiled from her home and family, Vera Zarovich finds herself in Mizora, a civilization at the center of the Earth made up entire…
Self-Control: A Novel
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Mary Brunton
The author: "This little tale was begun at first merely for my own amusement. It is published that I may reconcile my conscience to the…
Wilk, psy i ludzie
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Adolf Dygasiński
Narrator, prywaty nauczyciel z Małowieży, przygarnia wilcze szczenię, potomka rzekomego wilkołaka, starając się go wychować w towarzystwie s…