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1. INDEX BY AUTHOR AUTHORTITLEDATE 1 Jane Austin Sense and Sensibility 1811 2 Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice 1813 3 J. M. Barrie Peter Pan 1911 4 L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1900 5 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 1847 6 Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights 1847 7 Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden 1911 8 Samuel Butler The Way of all Flesh 1903 9 Steven Crane The Red Badge of Courage 1895 10 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (…)
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INDEX OF THE 96 NOVELS ON THIS SITE
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"Through the South Seas with Jack London" by Martin Johnson
12 décembre 2018, par Martin JohnsonAt the peak of his writing career in 1906, after having written much of his most outstanding work, Jack London decided – very much encouraged by his wife Charmian London – to build the sturdy little 45-foot (13.7 meters) two-masted schooner The Snark and to embark with his small crew of 6, including himself and Charmian, on a trip around the world that was intended to last a full seven years.
One of the best-known writers in the world by this time, he had made it known through newspaper (…) -
"By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
28 novembre 2018, par Jack LondonA selection of tales by the author of Lost Face, The Hobo and the Fairy, The Heathen, A Piece of Steak and so many other masterful stories. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. THE PLAGUE SHIP (1897) – on a grossly-overcrowded passenger ship, a deadly epidemic of yellow fever breaks out that decimates passengers, officers and crewmen alike – so severely that mutineers take over the officer-less ship and uncontrolled violence breaks out, leaving the surviving passengers to drift aimlessly around the (…) -
"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
24 novembre 2018, par Jack LondonJack London’s masterpiece The Call of the Wild was an instantaneous world-wide success the minute it was published in 1903, selling over a million copies in the first year and a phenomenal, unheard-of 6 million copies overall in just a few years, making him the best-known contemporary writer in the world at the time.
It has remained one of the most-read works of American literature ever since.
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Lexical analysis of "The Magic Mountain" : more than 3,300 neologisms and an unparalleled number of different words (36,097) !
20 novembre 2018, par RayThomas Mann’s monumental (308,000 words, 984 pages) The Magic Mountain is to German literature what “Don Quixote” is to Spanish literature, what "War and Piece" is to Russian literature, and what "À la recherche du temps perdu" is to French literature – a reference and a model that remains at the top of the most illustrious literary works ever produced in the language.
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A selection of 3 of Nelson Algren’s best short stories
21 juillet 2018, par Nelson AlgrenNelson Algren (1909-1981), author notably of the novels Never Come Morning (1942), The Man With the Golden Arm (1949) and A Walk On the Wild Side (1956), of the essay Chicago, City on the Make (1951) and of the short-story anthology The Neon Wilderness (1947), had a special talent for the short-story format, where his fascination with the low, low side of street life in the America of the thirties and forties, his innate empathy with the dropouts and losers of those rough days, his (…)
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"The Universe Maker" (1953) by A. E. van Vogt
17 juillet 2018, par A. E. van VogtWe are in 1953 and Lieutenant Morton Cargill is on leave from the Korean War when he stumbles into a young woman who is also leaving the dive he has been binge-leavng in. The next thing he knows is that he’s running away from a car crash that the young acquaintance hasn’t survived. However, when he comes back the following year he’s unexpectedly confronted with another young woman whose photos prove his involvement in the tragic death of the first and very fleeting acquaintance. Then he’s (…)
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"The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt
13 juillet 2018, par A. E. van VogtA brilliant scientist has been condemned to death for suggesting that the collectivist social system of the government that’s on the verge of taking over control of the entire world needs to be seriously called into question, and when his close friend comes to deliver the verdict to him he finds that the scientist has succeeded in escaping — by switching bodies with him ! So he will be executed in his place unless he can not only find the escaped scientist but also solve the many mysteries (…)
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"The War Against the Rull" by A. E. van Vogt (1959)
12 juin 2018, par A. E. van VogtMankind’s bitter and long-lasting struggle against the very advanced and very redoubtable worm-like Rulls for control of the Milky Way galaxy is told in this composite novel in a series of dramatic episodes, consisting essentially of previously-published golden-age stories modified to fit into the new story line featuring almost exclusively Rulls, to the exclusion of the other form-changing aliens, the Yevds, featured in some of the earlier stories,. The later 1978 story The First Rull was (…)
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"Juggernaut" and other golden-age stories by A. E. van Vogt
22 mai 2018, par A. E. van Vogt1. JUGGERNAUT (1944) A wartime story inspired by the immense possibilities for both war and peace of new technological discoveries that were so rapidly reshaping the world in that crucial decade. (3,700 words)
2. THE SHIP OF DARKNESS (1948) When you do a time-travel jump into 3,000,000 A.D. you are going to have problems ! But things might just work out in the end . . . (6,600 words)
3. ROGUE SHIP (1950) IThe very wealthy and scientifically-minded hero learns that the spaceship that he (…)