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Satan's Diary
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…
Salammbô
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammb&…
The New Paris
This is an Alice in Wonderland-like story by German classical author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is taken from his Autobiography "Di…
The Make-Believe Man
Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man…
Somewhere in France
When Captain Henri Ravignac married Marie Gessler, he was mistakenly thinking she was French. But Marie is in fact German, and her command o…
Our Own Set
The Austrian nobility in Rome forms a very close circle, into which only those of high rank and wealth are admitted. They managed to get alo…
The Men of Zanzibar
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expa…
An Unfinished Story
A very congenial dinner party is ongoing. Among the distinguished guests are also one author and one painter, who have just been told that t…
Told in the Coffee House
In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are u…
The Little Gray Lady
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great…
The Man Who Found the Truth
An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so chara…
The Spy
Mr. Crosby is a high-ranking official known to be often entrusted with secret government missions. But when he finds himself in Valencia, th…
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and th…
Libussa
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation…
The Criminal from Lost Honour
"In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion…
A Wasted Day
This is a delightful little story about the most successful banker on Wall Street, who finds his philanthropic side when one of his former e…
The Lost House
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …
The Lion and the Unicorn
What if figures of animals had lives of their own? If the figures of a lion and a unicorn at the shop across the street could talk, what wou…
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illus…
Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives
This is a collection of six short stories, each of them illustrating that even a marriage which looks perfect from the outside can be sabota…