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It would be difficult to assign any good reason why the author of Ivanhoe, after using, in that work, all the art he possessed to remove the personages, action, and manners of the tale, to a distance from his own country, should choose for the scene of his next attempt the celebrated ruins of Melrose,...

The spirit of nationalism that swept over the small peoples of Europe in the early nineteenth century touched faraway Finland and started the Finns on the quest of the Finnish. There as elsewhere scholars who were also patriots found that the native tongue, lost to the educated and the well-to-do,...

Diese Sammlung besteht aus den drei Geschichten Grigia, Die Portugiesin und Tonka.

Das verzauberte Haus ist eine Erzählung von Robert Musil und gehört zu seinen eher selten gelesenen Werken.

Die Portugiesin ist der zweite Teil des Drei Frauen Zyklus von Robert Musil.

Grigia ist eine Erzählung von Robert Musil. Sie gehört zu dem Drei Frauen Zyklus.

A Norwegian brig is driven out of her course on the homeward voyage, and near the rockbound Norwegian Coast meets with the phantom ship of the "Flying Dutchman." Daland, the captain of the Norwegian vessel, enters into a compact with the "Flying Dutchman" whose identity, however,...

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness. As I lay and looked through the eastern window of my room, a faint streak of peach-colour, dividing a cloud that just rose above the low swell of the horizon, announced the approach of the sun. As...

THE narrative to which this note is introductory was found among the papers of the late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom they were bequeathed, I was requested to prepare it for publication. This turned out a very easy task, for the document proved of...

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...

Dans la nuit du 13 au 14 mai 1876, aux alentours de Riga, l'auberge de la Croix-Rompue devient le décor d'un meurtre aussi épouvantable qu'inexplicable. Poch, un employé de banque en possession d'une forte somme d'argent, est obligé de faire une étape imprévue à l'auberge; il y est retrouvé...

There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear. I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not then mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible which has made my career a series of quests for strange horrors in literature...

Scapin, le valet italien, est fourbe. Il est menteur, voleur, hypocrite et perfide. Mais, à sa façon, il est aussi fidèle et courageux. Il lutte en permanence contre les injustices de son temps, celle par exemple qui empêche les amoureux de se marier librement. Voilà pourquoi ses jeunes maîtres...

Dom Juan vient de quitter sa femme pour tenter d'enlever à son futur époux une jeune fiancée trop éprise de son prétendant pour que l'idée ne lui vienne pas de troubler leur bonheur. Puis il jette son dévolu sur de jeunes paysannes qu'il promet d'épouser. Sganarelle a beau timidement tenter...