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The Awakening & Other Short Stories
[en]
(1899)
by Kate Chopin Description: The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an aff... Categories: Short Fiction - Sexuality |
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The Brothers Karamazov
[en]
(1880)
by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Description: The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brot... Categories: Novels - Psychology |
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Beyond Good and Evil
[en]
(1886)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Description: Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich N... Categories: Non-Fiction - Philosophy |
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
[en]
(1884)
by Edwin Abbott Abbott Description: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarch... Categories: Novels - Philosophy - Science - Humor/Satire |
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Tao Te Ching
[en]
(-600)
by Laozi Description: The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese... Categories: Non-Fiction - Philosophy - Religion |
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The Antichrist
[en]
(1888)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Description: Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" might be more aptly named "The Antichristian," for it is an unmitigated attack on Christianity that Nietzsche makes within the text instead of an exposition o... Categories: Non-Fiction - Philosophy |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
[en]
(1885)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Description: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra, sometimes translated Thus Spake Zarathustra), subtitled A Book for All and None (Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), is a written work by German ... Categories: Non-Fiction - Philosophy |
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The Art of War
[en]
(-514)
by Sun Tzu Description: The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been pra... Categories: Non-Fiction - Philosophy - War |
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Crime and Punishment
[en]
(1866)
by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Description: The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice,... Categories: Novels - Psychology |
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Paradise Lost
[en]
(1667)
by John Milton Description: Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve... Categories: Poetry - Religion |
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At the Mountains of Madness
[en]
(1931)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Description: At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Storie... Categories: Novels - Horror |
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
[en]
(1927)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Description: Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in a quiet town near Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted th... Categories: Novels - Horror |
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The Call of Cthulhu
[en]
(1926)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Description: "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Love... Categories: Short Fiction - Horror |
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The Dunwich Horror
[en]
(1928)
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Description: In H.P. Lovecraft’s, "The Dunwich Horror", we are told the story of Wilbur Whateley, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by the mad Old Whateley as "Yog... Categories: Short Fiction - Horror |
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Dead Souls
[en]
(1842)
by Nikolai Gogol Description: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and... Categories: Novels |
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The Metamorphosis
[en]
(1912)
by Franz Kafka Description: The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a... Categories: Short Fiction - Horror |
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