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In Moscow an unknown author approaches a publisher (the narrator), asking him to read and publish his manuscript. The narrator agrees to read it before the author returns three months later. At the heart of the story in the manuscript is a love triangle and...
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Published in 1888 to immediate popularity (it was the second-ever novel to sell over one million copies in the United States), Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The book’s...
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Published in 1867, Thérese Raquin is the novel which established Zola’s reputation as a writer who forensically explored the darker side of human nature. Thérese is a half Algerian orphan, brought up in provincial France by her aunt and married off to her sickly...
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Audiobook Vera written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss, both recovering from recent unhappiness, meet and quickly fall in love. However, over their new-found bliss looms the spectre of Vera, Wemyss’s first wife who died in mysterious...
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Audiobook Against Nature written by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Published in 1884, Against Nature (A rebours) concerns the attempts of its cultured and neurotic anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to escape contemporary Parisian life. At his rural retreat he is able to indulge...
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Audiobook The Enchanted April, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Two unhappily married women, Rose Arbuthnot and Lotty Wilkins, respond to an advertisement offering a month’s rental of a small medieval Italian castle. In order to defray the not inconsiderable...
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Audiobook The Confessions of Arsene Lupin written by Maurice Leblanc . Comprising 10 short stories, The Confessions of Arsene Lupin first appeared in 1913. Each story features the eponymous gentleman- burglar, who deploys his remarkable wit and skill to plot...
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Audiokniha Šaman, kterou napsal Noah Gordon. Někteří muži ze skotské lékařské dynastie Coleů jsou obdařeni schopností instinktivně vycítit, kdy se blíží smrt. Náleží k nim také Rob J. Cole, který se v druhé polovině 19. století připojil k prvním bělošským přistěhovalcům...
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Audiokniha Sophiina volba, kterou napsal William Styron. „Nikdy se nemohla vymanit z dusivého vědomí, že v jejím životě byla doba, kdy hrála roli účastnice na plánovaném zločinu. “
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Audiobook A Bridge in Time (EN), written by Elisabeth McNeill. The railway promises progress – but in Camptounfoot, change comes at a cost. In 1853, Scotland’s oldest village stands on the brink of transformation. When shy but determined Emma Jane Wylie loses...
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Audiobook Orlando, written by Virginia Woolf. Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation.
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Audiobook Tales of the Elders of Ireland, written by Oxford University Press. Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection of Fenian stories...
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Audiobook The Crystal Stopper, written by Maurice Leblanc. When Arsene Lupin and two of his criminal associates try to rob the villa of Deputy Daubrecq, things do not go according to plan and Lupin’s two partners are arrested and sentenced to death, leaving...
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Audiobook Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther is a novella written by Elizabeth von Arnim, a British-German author known for her witty and insightful novels. Published in 1907, the story revolves...
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Audiobook The Man Who Disappeared (America), written by Franz Kafka. Rhe first of Kafka’s three great novels, The Man Who Disappeared (America) follows the picaresque adventures of Karl Rossman, who is banished to America following a family scandal. Upon his...
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Audiobook This Side of Paradise written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact,...
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Often compared to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest tells the poignant story of a passionate and spontaneous young woman who becomes trapped in a dull and restrictive upper-class existence. Married at the tender age of 17 to Geert...
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Orphaned at the age of 10, Jim Burden moves to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. There he meets Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of an immigrant family from Bohemia, who have come to carve out a life for themselves in the harsh and bountiful Nebraskan landscape....
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