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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude F..

Madame De Mauves

Henry James

Madame de Mauves is a novella by Henry James, originally published in The Galaxy magazine in 1874. The story centers on the troubled marriage of a scrupulous American wife and a far from scrupulous Fr..

L'Ingénu

Voltaire

L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes reli..

All Around the Moon

Jules Verne

Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel which continues the trip to the Moon which was only partially described in the previous novel. It was la..

La favorita del Mahdi

La favorita del Mahdi is an adventure story written by Emilio Salgari, an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was mo..

Casanovas Heimfahrt

Arthur Schnitzler

Casanova ist 53 Jahre alt und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als in seine Heimatstadt Venedig, aus der er einst verbannt worden ist, zurückzukehren und macht sich voller Hoffnung, dieser Bann werde b..

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

On a trip to Spain in 1830, our narrator recounts his encounters with two strange characters: a thief named Don José Navarro and a beautiful Romani woman named Carmen...little does he know that soon, ..

Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is romance novel written by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Ridd is the s..