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Excerpt: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?KASPAR! MAKAN!? The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon....

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The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public’s imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. Listen and you will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van Helsing, plus an array of madmen, psychiatrists, and fair maidens who cross paths with the fanged menace. (Summary by Paula)...

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Horror/Ghost stories

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The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. (Summary by Andy)...

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Fiction

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Excerpt: Chapter I; IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. ?My dear Mr. Bennet,? said his lady to him one day, ?have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?? Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. ?But it is,? returned she; ?for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.? Mr. Bennett made no answer. ?Do not you want to know who has taken it?? cried his wife impatiently. ?You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.? This was invitation enough....

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Table of Contents: I 1 -- I 3 -- II 6 -- III 8 -- IV 12 -- V 15 -- VI 18 -- VII 24 -- VIII 29 -- IX 34 -- X 39 -- XI 45 -- XII 49 -- XIII 51 -- XIV 55 -- XV 58...

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Excerpt: It is a very wholesome and regenerating change which a man undergoes when he ?comes to himself.? It is not only after periods of recklessness or infatuation, when he has played the spendthrift or the fool, that a man comes to comes to himself. He comes to himself after experiences of which he alone may be aware: when he has left off being wholly preoccupied with his own powers and interests and with every petty plan that centers in himself; when he has cleared his eyes to see the world as it is, and his own true place and function in it....

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Angelehnt an dänische, deutsche und griechische Sagen und historische Begebenheiten, dem Volksglauben verbunden und inspiriert von literarischen Strömungen seiner Zeit, schuf Andersen die bedeutsamsten Kunstmärchen des Biedermeier. Andersens Märchen sind nicht nur zeitlos; sie gehören mittlerweile zur Weltliteratur....

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Fairy tales

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Excerpt: I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now....

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Excerpt: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby (1922 ed.).

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This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fiction but I will include short stories, poems, one-act plays, as well. (Summary by Bellona Times)...

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Essay/Short nonfiction

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Wilhelm Tell ist das letzte fertiggestellte Drama Friedrich von Schillers. Er schloss es 1804 ab. Das Drama nimmt den Stoff des Schweizer Nationalmythos um Wilhelm Tell und den Rütlischwur auf. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia)...

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Literature, Play

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Anlässlich des 200. Jubiläums der Kinder- und Hausmärchen präsentiert eine Auswahl aus der ersten Auflage der Kinder- und Hausmärchen von 1812/15. Die erste Auflage der berühmten Märchensammlung unterscheidet sich in einigen Punkten von den bekannteren späteren Auflagen. Sie enthält Geschichten, die in den späteren Auflagen entschärft und verniedlicht wurden, um dem Geschmack des vorwiegend bürgerlichen Publikums entgegenzukommen. So wird Rapunzel hier noch schwanger und Hänsel und Gretel werden von ihrer Mutter im Wald verlassen, nicht von der Stiefmutter. Auch sind viele Märchen mit hugenottischem Hintergrund enthalten, z.B. Der gestiefelte Kater, der auf Charles Perrault zurückgeht und in späteren Auflagen nicht mehr enthalten ist. Die durch die Brüder Grimm kommentierten Erstausgabe ist Teil des Weltdokumentenerbes der UNESCO. (Zusammenfassung von Hokuspokus)...

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Fairy tales

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Excerpt: Book of Genesis; Chapter 1 -- In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: Be light made. And light was made. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day....

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Table of Contents: I Old Testament 1 -- 1 Book of Genesis, 3 -- 2 Book of Exodus, 67 -- 3 Book of Leviticus, 119 -- 4 Book of Numbers, 156 -- 5 Book of Deuteronomy, 209 -- 6 Book of Josue, 255 -- 7 Book of Judges, 286 -- 8 Book of Ruth, 318 -- 9 First Book of Samuel, 323 -- 10 Second Book of Samuel, 365 -- 11 Third Book of Kings, 400 -- 12 Fourth Book of Kings, 441 -- 13 First Book of Paralipomenon, 479 -- 14 Second Book of Paralipomenon, 516 -- 15 First Book of Esdras, 560 -- 16 Book of Nehemias, 574 -- 17 Book of Tobias, 593 -- 18 Book of Judith, 606 -- 19 Book of Esther, 623 -- 20 Book of Job, 639 -- 21 Book of Psalms, 675 -- 22 Book of Proverbs, 761 -- 23 Ecclesiastes, 791 -- 24 Book of Wisdom, 806 -- 25 Ecclesiasticus, 826 -- 26 Prophecy of Isaias, 883 -- 27 Prophecy of Jeremias, 947 -- 28 Lamentations of Jeremias, 1018 -- 29 Prophecy of Baruch, 1025...

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Excerpt: In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding....

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The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. Only one passenger cannot be awoken by the porter, no matter how loudly he knocks. At last, when the door is forced open, the occupant of the compartment is found dead - stabbed to the heart. The murderer must be found among the passengers... (Summary by Carolin)...

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Travel, Mystery

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Excerpt: ?The Tell-Tale Heart? by Edgar Allan Poe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk....

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This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer) You will not think, therefore, that the respectful Liberty we have taken with your Wondrous Tale... indicates any lack of Loyalty to our Lady Ayesha. Her beauties are beyond the reach of danger from Burlesque, nor does her form flit across our humble pages. (taken from the Dedication)...

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Humor, Fiction

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Excerpt: Sketches of Young Gentlemen by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: The Nibelungenlied, translated by Daniel B. Shumway.

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Excerpt: Plutarch?s Lives -- Volume Two. translated by Arthur Hugh Clough.

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Contents SERTORIUS ..................................................................................................................................... 5 EUMENES ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ................................................................................................................................... 52 POMPEY......................................................................................................................................... 89 COMPARISON OF POMPEY AND AGESILAUS .................................................................... 167 ALEXANDER ............................................................................................................................... 172 CAESAR........................................................................................................................................ 245 PHOCION ..................................................