The unique boundaries of the short story have attracted a majority of the prominent writers in the German language since the genre attained its modern form and became wide...
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Selected Short Stories from the 19th Century
First published in 1930, the author provides a tour of the novel from its birth to his own time, including the works of Flaubert and Conrad.
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In spite of the amplified disclaimer: ""Note: This story is a fiction. Neither its characters nor the situations in which they are involved are intended to represent any p...
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Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from ...
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The idea of the superfluity of unma...
<p>Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future - until the purchase of a telesc...
A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde’s fascinating gothic tale.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only full-length...
John Steinbeck, from the very start of his career, evoked the landscape and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. The Library of A...
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous ...
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This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century’s great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience.
An unnamed ...
Miss Lonelyhearts is a male newspaper columnist writing an advice column for the lovelorn and lonesome. The job is a circulation stunt and the whole staff considers it a j...
On a blustery November day the King children and Sara, the Story Girl, come up with a great idea that will help them endure the dreary winter season. They will publish a m...
