"The Warrior's Soul" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1917, it is a war tale of loyalty, murder and exile, set during Napoleon's retrea……続きを見る
The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a larg……続きを見る
Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden. This collection contains the follo……続きを見る
An enthralling novel of Gaspar's inspirational rise from obscurity to light. Remarkable for its irony, it marvellously presents man's capacity for self-deception. Attention-grabbing!
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Es war ein Glücksfall. Gustav Freytag, mit Julian Schmidt zusammen der literaturkritische Tribun des Realismus, an dem kein Autor dieser Jahre vorbeikam, fand öffentlich Gefallen an Louise von Franç……続きを見る
The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese ……続きを見る
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspectiv……続きを見る
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on th……続きを見る
A fairy tale of a girl who loved birds and was loved by them. She saves her country-the name of which is Country under the sunset(most probably the same country from another short story with the sam……続きを見る
The Tale by Joseph Conrad brings together in one collection four stories by Joseph Conrad. Set onboard a ship during an unnamed war, the title story is a harrowing account of guilt and responsibilit……続きを見る
Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.P. Lovecraft in collaboration with writer Anna Helen Crofts. The story is very different from the vast majority of Lovecraft's other ……続きを見る
Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by ……続きを見る
"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first publi……続きを見る
Diese Ausgabe von "Ein einfältig Herz" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) war ein französischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem als ……続きを見る
Découvrez ou redécouvrez l'histoire de Charles Bovary qui, après avoir suivi ses études dans un lycée de province, s'établit comme officier de santé et se marie à une riche veuve. À la mort de celle……続きを見る
Dans le Paris débridé des année folles, alors que le gouvernement est aux abois, on ne parle que d'un mystérieux malfaiteur, tout-puissant, "le Grand X". Un riche banquier et homme politique, Milion……続きを見る
Herbert de Renich, citoyen luxembourgeois, toujours amoureux d'Amalia, pourtant devenue la femme du terrible amiral allemand Von Treischke, se retrouve à bord du Vengeur, un sous marin extraordinair……続きを見る
North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine ……続きを見る
Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreamsーhis real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in cont……続きを見る
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capita……続きを見る
The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats c……続きを見る
Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts o……続きを見る
La figura dello iettatore appare figlia dell'Illuminismo napoletano ed emerge per la prima volta nel 1787 in un libello del giurista Nicola Valletta, intitolato Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente dett……続きを見る
Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men we……続きを見る
Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne. Voguer sur la mer de Chine pendant la saison des typhons ne l'inquiète pas vraiment. Quand, pendant la traversée, il voit l'aig……続きを見る
"The Judge's House" is a classic ghost story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the December 5, 1891, special Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic ……続きを見る
Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with ……続きを見る
