Astoria is a novel published in 1836 by Washington Irving, at the behest of John Jacob Astor, about the American West. William R Lighton an editor of Lewis and Clark's journals refers to Pierre Dori……続きを見る
Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev, is a Russian fiction classic and a nostalgic story of a man in his late twenties, torn between his much loved but barbaric homeland and a comfortable but unsatisfactory life……続きを見る
Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three comp……続きを見る
The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. The nar……続きを見る
Das Werk, das aus einer Vorrede und drei "Abhandlungen" besteht, gehört zu den einflussreichsten Schriften Nietzsches. Er legte hier keine Aphorismen vor wie in den meisten anderen seiner Werke, son……続きを見る
Le professeur Lidenbrock trouve un document dans lequel il apprend l'existence d'un volcan éteint dont la cheminée pourrait le conduire jusqu'au centre de la Terre. Accompagné de son neveu Axel et d……続きを見る
A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, i……続きを見る
The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking ……続きを見る
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont……続きを見る
Das Buch besteht aus vier Teilen. Der erste Teil erschien 1883, der zweite und dritte 1884, der vierte 1885 als Privatdruck. 1886 veröffentlichte Nietzsche die drei ersten Teile als "Also sprach Zar……続きを見る
nspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old - "You suppo……続きを見る
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in an……続きを見る
"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovec……続きを見る
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attem……続きを見る
The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his carg……続きを見る
Contenu: Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volée, Le Scarabée d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un c……続きを見る
The present ebook comprises the complete writings of William Shakespeare. It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gall……続きを見る
Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasye……続きを見る
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing. Her pen name was Astrea. Ernest A. Baker (1869-1941) was……続きを見る
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists t……続きを見る
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under ……続きを見る
The Death of Ivan Ilyich was first published in 1886. It is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It is one of Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction. This work stems in part from Tolstoy's anguished ……続きを見る
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the great……続きを見る
Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were……続きを見る
Khor et Kalinitch, paru dans une revue, rendit célèbre Tourgueniev. Ce premier texte donne le thème de l'ensemble des récits de ce recueil: la chasse, dans de superbes paysages de plaines, de bois, ……続きを見る
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It ……続きを見る
In der Nähe des Kap Hoorn am südlichen Ende von Südamerika befindet sich auf der argentinischen Insel Isla de los Estados (Staateninsel) ein Leuchtturm. Dieser wird von einer Besatzung betrieben, di……続きを見る
Der Roman ist vorgeblich ein Erlebnisbericht des französischen Professors Pierre Aronnax, Autor eines Werkes über "Die Geheimnisse der Meerestiefen". In den Jahren 1866 und 1867 häufen sich auf alle……続きを見る
A tale with the glamor of medieval romance, which centers about the mystery that five hundred years before Marco's day, the young prince of the kingdom of Samavia had walked away over the mountains,……続きを見る
Uno de los libros que describe mejor el pensamiento de tardío de Nietzsche. Fue el primer libro inédito que paso por las manos de Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche quien suprimió párrafos enteros y hasta ……続きを見る
