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Tragedy

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Henrik Ibsen - Brand

Inflamed by what he saw as his Norwegian homeland's shocking betrayal of Denmark after the Prussian invasion of Danish territory, Ibsen wrote «Brand» as an indictment of human complacency and rigidity of mind....

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Tysons

Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, «The Tysons» is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair...

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Political Science

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Marie Sukloff - Life-Story of a Russian Exile

Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activist, Sukloff carried out an assassination plot against a Russian governor known...

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Literary Fiction

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May Sinclair - Romantic

As a simple story told, «The Romantic» is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she...

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Memoirs

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Arthur Ransome - Russia in 1919

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: «Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Knud Rasmussen - Eskimo Folk-Tales

Quote: «No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin; his childhood was spent in Greenland, and to Greenland he returned...

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Literary Fiction

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Anton Chekhov - Duel (version 2)

Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libertine Laevsky...

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood (version 2)

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels...

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Literary Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Shadow-Line

Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first...

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Literary Fiction

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Anton Chekhov - Steppe

Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Father Christopher, and the fun-loving servant Deniska. Along the way they meet an...

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Literary Fiction

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Anton Chekhov - My Life: The Story of a Provincial

A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a reputation as a lazy good-for-nothing. In reality, he is intensely sensitive...

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Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life

Literary Fiction

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Gertrude Christian Fosdick - Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life

Beryl Carrington is a naïve young American artist following her ideals to Paris, where she meets three young men, all also artists and all in love with her. Georges is French-American and a bit wild, with a French...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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