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Cover of Ein Brudermord
by Franz Kafka
Language: German
Release Date: August 30, 2017

Schmar, der Mörder, lauert seinem Opfer namens Wese auf dem kurzen Wegstück zwischen dessen Büro und Haus auf. Schmar spricht ihn an, er kennt ihn offensichtlich gut, dann ersticht er ihn mit einem Messer. Der Mörder ist sowohl während als auch nach der Tat in gehobener, fiebriger Stimmung. Der...
Cover of Die Maske des Roten Todes
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: German
Release Date: August 21, 2017

Ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass eine Krankheit (der Rote Tod, Red Death) die Hälfte der Untertanen dahinrafft, gibt Prinz Prospero, der sich in eine von ihm entworfene Abtei zurückgezogen hat und in Sicherheit wiegt, einen pompösen Maskenball. Prinz Prospero liebt das Außergewöhnliche, sein Geschmack...
Cover of Der Altertümler
by Walter Scott
Language: German
Release Date: September 10, 2017

Der Altertümler war bald an den wenigen Hütten, die um die Muschelklippe herumstanden, angelangt. Neben ihrem gewöhnlichen schmutzigen, unbehaglichen Aussehen hatten sie jetzt noch die trübseligen Zutaten von Trauerhäusern. Die Boote waren alle auf den Strand gezogen; und obwohl das Wetter schön...
Cover of Götzen-Dämmerung
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert ist ein 1889 veröffentlichtes Spätwerk Friedrich Nietzsches, in dem er wesentliche Aspekte seines bisherigen Denkens zusammenfasste. Mit ihm setzte er den Weg der Umwertung aller Werte weiter fort und bezog sich auf die „Götzen“...
Cover of The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture-eye",...
Cover of Odisseia
by Homero
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 9, 2017

Odisseia (em grego: Οδύσσεια, transl. Odýsseia) é um dos dois principais poemas épicos da Grécia Antiga, atribuídos a Homero. É uma sequência da Ilíada, outra obra creditada ao autor, e é um poema fundamental no cânone ocidental. Historicamente, é a segunda - a primeira...
Cover of Otello
by William Shakespeare
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 7, 2017

Otello è un moro, al servizio della repubblica veneta, al quale è stato affidato il compito di comandare l'esercito veneziano contro i turchi nell'isola di Cipro. All'inizio del dramma, Otello parte da Venezia in compagnia del luogotenente Cassio. Lo avrebbe seguito Desdemona, sua moglie, scortata...
Cover of Re Lear
by William Shakespeare
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 7, 2017

Re Lear (King Lear) è una tragedia in cinque atti, in versi e prosa, scritta nel 1605-1606 da William Shakespeare. La storia che ne fornisce l'intreccio principale affonda le radici nell'antica mitologia britannica. È un dramma a doppio intreccio (schema presente in molte opere...
Cover of Morella
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017

An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question of identity. Morella spends her time in bed reading and teaching her husband. Realizing her physical deterioration, her...
Cover of Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company in 1856. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was...
Cover of Retrato del Artista Adolescente
by James Joyce
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 9, 2017

Retrato del artista adolescente (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, en inglés) es una novela semiautobiográfica escrita por el escritor irlandés James Joyce, publicada en formato de serial en la revista The Egoist, entre 1914 y 1915, y como libro en el año 1916. Novela de aprendizaje,...
Cover of La Piel de Zapa
by Honoré de Balzac
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2017

La piel de zapa (en el original en francés: La peau de chagrin) es una novela de 1831 del escritor y dramaturgo francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). Ambientada en París a comienzos del siglo XIX, la obra cuenta la historia de un joven que recibe un pedazo de piel o cuero mágico que...
Cover of Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by the American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country"...
Cover of Musicians of the Past
by Romain Rolland
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017

Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
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