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Chekhov
- 1. Overviews of all the stories
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2. Stories and anthologies
- “Easter Eve” and other Chekhov stories
- "An Enigmatic Nature" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "Anyuta" and other Chekhov stories
- "The Black Monk" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- "The Huntsman" and other Chekhov stories
- "The Lady with The Dog" and other great stories by Anton Chekhov
- "Ward No. 6" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
- Anton Chekhov’s funniest story: "From the Diary of a Violent-tempered Man" (1887)
Dickens
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1. The complete (15) novels
- "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) by Charles Dickens
- "Barnaby Rudge" (1841) by Charles Dickens
- "Bleak House" (1853) by Charles Dickens
- "David Copperfield" (1850) by Charles Dickens
- "Dombey and Son" (1846) by Charles Dickens
- "Great Expectations" (1861) by Charles Dickens
- "Hard Times" (1854) by Charles Dickens
- "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) - where Charles Dickens goes to America
- "Nicholas Nickleby" (1839) by Charles Dickens
- "Oliver Twist" (1838), by Charles Dickens
- "Our Mutual Friend" (1865), by Charles Dickens
- "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (1869) - the last work of Charles Dickens
- "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1841) by Charles Dickens
- "The Pickwick Papers" (1837) by Charles Dickens
- The 15 novels of Charles Dickens: synopses, comments and ratings
- “Little Dorrit” (1857) by Charles Dickens
- 2. Stories and essays
Great novels
Articles
Poetry
Articles
- "Sonnets From the Prison of Moabit" (1944-45) by Albrecht Haushofer - a modern triumph of the human spirit
- "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1859), translated by Edward Fitzgerald
- "Tintern Abbey" (1798) by William Wordsworth - the original and most authentic text
- "Twas the night before Christmas" (1823) by Clement Moore
- A selection of Tang Dynasty poems
- An anthology of famous French poems, with their English translations
- An anthology of great English poems
- The original Lyrical Ballads (1798) version of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- Thoughts on reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Memoirs
Articles
- "Children of Yesterday" - Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-45
- "Out of the Night" (1941) by Jan Valtin - an extraordinary memoir of life in the international Communist movement between the two World Wars
- "Typee" (1846) by Herman Melville - a fascinating account of life in a South Sea island before the spread of Western civilization
- Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)
- The Normandy Campaign - an eyewitness account
Essays
Articles
- "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling", by Mark Twain
- "I Love Awfully Bad Writing", by James Clarke
- "The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain
- A comparative study of the vocabulary of the greatest Western authors - and the winner is . . .
- German Literature - a personal survey
- The Great Baseball Scandal - how the Mob won the 1919 World Series, by Nelson Algren
- Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)
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Jack London
- 1. Overviews of all the stories & novels
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2. Anthologies
- "By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
- "Make Westing" and other stories by Jack London
- "The Pearls of Parlay" and other stories by Jack London
- "The Sunlanders" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
- "The White Man’s Way" and other Klondike stories by Jack London
- A selection of South Seas/Hawaii stories by Jack London
- Eleven of Jack London’s best Far North stories
- Jack London’s two war stories
- More of Jack London’s best Far North stories
- Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
- Two great boxing stories by Jack London: "A Piece of Steak" (1909) and "The Mexican" (1911)
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3. Stories
- "Before Adam" (1906) - a prehistoric adventure novella by Jack London
- "Lost Face" (1908) by Jack London: the clash of cultures in Russian Alaska
- "The Call of the Wild" (1903) by Jack London - the full text with e-books
- "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (1902) - an adventure novella by Jack London
- "The Game" (1905) - a boxing story by Jack London
- "The Heathen" (1909) - an unforgettable South Seas tale by Jack London
- "The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - a memorable Hobo story by Jack London
- "The Scarlet Plague" (1912): a powerful, end-of-the-civilized-world science-fiction novella by Jack London
- "The Shadow and the Flash" (1903): an early science-fiction story by Jack London
- An early science-fiction story by Jack London: "A Thousand Deaths" (1899)
- Jack London’s funniest story: "That Spot" (1908)
- The Abysmal Brute (1913) - a boxing novella by Jack London
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4. Novels
- "Burning Daylight" (1910) - Jack London’s last Klondike novel
- "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)
- "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London
- "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism
- "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London
- "The Sea Wolf" (1904) by Jack London
- "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London
- "White Fang" (1906) by Jack London
- 5. Memoirs
Archives
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Books/Cinema
- "La Marche de l’empereur", de Luc Jacquet
- "8 mm", by Joel Schumacher
- "Black Swan", ou la dialectique d’un parcours d’expression scénique
- "Disgrace", by J.M. Coetzee
- "Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises)", by Ernest Hemingway
- "L’Envol du Migrateur", d’Ismail Kadaré
- "La Chute (Der Untergang)", par Olivier Hirschbiegel
- "La Conversation de Bolzano", par Sandor Marai
- "Le Jour des Morts", par Cees Nooteboom
- "Le Loup Bleu", par Yasushi Inoué
- "Le Silence", par Orso Miret
- "Les Noces Funèbres" (Corpse Bride), de Tim Burton
- "Love and Garbage", by Ivan Klima
- "Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse", par Jean Potocki
- "Nouvelle Vie TM", de Pierre Bordage
- "Ocean’s Twelve", by Steven Soderbergh
- "Quiller KGB", by Adam Hall
- "Retour à Killybegs", par Sorj Chalandon
- "Runaway", by Alice Munro
- "The Art of Travel", by Alain de Botton
- "The Blind Assassin", by Margaret Atwood
- "The Matrix" by Larry and Andy Wachowski/Joe Silver
- "The Party", de Blake Edwards
- "The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus", edited by Brian Aldiss
- "Vertiges", par W.G. Sebald
- "Victor Segalen, les tribulations d’un poète en Chine", par Simon Leys
- Cyrano de Bergerac à la Comédie Française
- Le bûcher de Montségur, par Zoë Oldenburg
- Les Cowboys fringants au Zénith
- Les marionnettes de Salzbourg font leur Mozart à Paris
- Pepe Carvalho: a Spanish Hercule Poirot
- Some E.T.A. Hoffmann books
- Some George Eliot books
- Some Ismail Kadare books
- Some Mario Vargas Llosa books
- Some P.G. Wodehouse Books
- Some Thomas Hardy Books
- Some W.G. Sebald books
- The Irish Civil War
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Essays
- "La chanson de Roland", de Turold
- "S.M.O.G." by Bruce David
- "The Genealogy of Morals", by Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Three Uses of the Knife (on the nature and purpose of drama)", par David Mamet
- About "The Continental Dream: Will the French Shatter It?"
- Choses lues
- Cinéma Vérité in Europe : Rejecting U.S. Culture (+ trad.en Français)
- Cinéma Vérité in Europe: Rejecting US culture - Commentary
- Climat sécuritaire : quel avenir pour les jeunes, à part le soupçon ?
- Elément de discussion sur "Littérature et engagement"
- Extracts from the Minutes of the annual Smith-McWilliam picnics (1907-1945)
- Friedman and the War in Iraq in 2003
- Good Words
- Hamlet’s Conspiracy Theories
- Havana-Toronto Elementary Class Exchange
- How to improve your English diction (with useful sayings and proverbs)
- Interesting things read recently that I would like to share with you
- La mixité à l’école
- La pédagogie au cœur du malaise
- Le site et vous / About this site
- Les limites des mesures locales et quelques axes pour une vraie réflexion politique.
- Lexique de lecture
- Marcel Proust and the 4th Dimension
- My struggle to overcome the CBBS (Compulsive Book-Buyer’s Syndrome)
- Poetry Readings
- Quand les caméras sapent l’éducation
- Quand pédagogie rime avec alibi
- Shakespeare on Football
- The death penalty in the USA
- The US film industry and French protectionism
- Tragique et baroque dans "Romeo and Juliet", de William Shakespeare
- Violence et sécurité
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German Studies
- A German-English literary dictionary (with German-language definitions)
- German prefixes and suffixes - an overview
- Lexical analysis 2 of "The Magic Mountain" - the complete vocabulary
- Lexical analysis of "The Magic Mountain": more than 3300 neologisms and undefined words!
- Mes livres allemands - un survol personnel de la littérature de langue allemande
- The average number of meanings per word in German (and maybe English too)
- Un dictionnaire littéraire allemand-français (avec définitions en allemand)
- French poetry
Maupassant
- 1. Overviews of all the stories
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2. Stories and anthologies
- "An Outing in the Countryside" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "At the Spa" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "Boule de Suif" and other famous stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "La petite Roque" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "On the Water" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "Solitude" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "Suicides" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Burning Log" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- "The Night" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
- The adventures of the Marquise and the Baroness — three of Guy de Maupassant’s most amusing (and amoral) stories
A. E. van Vogt
- 1. Overviews of all the stories & novels
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2. Anthologies
- "Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology
- "Destination: Universe!" - A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
- Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt
- The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt
- The Silkie Stories (1964-1967) by A. E. van Vogt
- Three of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories: "Itself" (1963), "Lost: Fifty Suns" (1972) and "The Timed Clock" (1972)
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3. Stories
- "Black Destroyer" (1939) - the original text of A. E. van Vogt’s first published s-f story
- "Centaurus II" (1947) by A. E. van Vogt - a golden-age novelette never before republished
- "Discord in Scarlet" (1939) by A. E. van Vogt - the original text and graphics
- "Dormant" (1948) - a great golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt
- "Femworld" - a late (1979) tale by A. E. van Vogt
- "Haunted Atoms" (1951) - a rare golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt
- "Juggernaut" (1944) by A. E. van Vogt
- "M33 in Andromeda" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt
- "Not Only Dead Men" (1942) - the complete text of an early s-f story by A. E. van Vogt
- "Ride In, Killer!" (1951) - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt
- "Rogue Ship" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Beast" - an early van Vogt novella now available for the first time since 1943
- "The Cataaaaa" (1947) - one of A. E. van Vogt’s most original golden-age science-fiction stories
- "The Expendables" (1963) - a space-exploration saga by A. E. van Vogt
- "The First Rull" (1978) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Ghost" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story
- "The Perfect Day" (1981) by A. E. van Vogt - never before published in English
- "The Proxy Intelligence" (1968) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Replicators" (1965) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Sea Thing" (1940) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Ship of Darkness" (1948) - a golden-age s-f/fantasy story by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Star-Saint" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Ultra Man" (1966) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Weapon Shop" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished!
- "The Witch" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt
- "Vault of the Beast" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first s-f story
- "War of Nerves" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
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4. Novels
- "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel
- "The Book of Ptath" (1943) - A. E. van Vogt’s only fantasy novel
- "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt
- "The Mixed Men" novel (1952) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Shadow Men" (1950) - an outstanding golden-age sci-fi novel by A. E. van Vogt never before republished
- "The Voyage of The Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
- "The Weapon Makers" (1943) - the original version of A. E. van Vogt’s first "Weapon Shop" novel (never before republished)
- "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt - the novel
- "The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt
Stefan Zweig
Articles
- "Burning Secret" (1911) by Stefan Zweig
- "In the Snow" and other stories by Stefan Zweig
- "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
- "The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" - Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history
- "The Invisible Collection" and other stories by Stefan Zweig
- The complete (44) stories of Stefan Zweig - synopses, comments and ratings
Great stories
Articles
- "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
- "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka
- "Lalie’s Story", from Zola’s novel "L’Assommoir" (1877)
- "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann, an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave – or else!
- "The Bottle Imp" (1891) - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "The Golden Cup" (Der Pokal, 1812) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism
- "The Promenade (der Spaziergang)" (1917) by Robert Walser
- "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum
- "War" (1918): Luigi Pirandello’s memorable story about parenthood in wartime
- A selection of Nelson Algren’s best short stories
- Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)
Science fiction
Articles
- "A Matter of Size" (1934) by Harry Bates
- "Correspondence Course" (1945) by Raymond F. Jones
- "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner
- "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" (1940) by Harry Bates
- "He Who Shrank" (1936) by Henry Hasse
- "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn
- "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown
- "Skirmish (Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!)" (1950) by Clifford Simak
- "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
- "The Star Mouse" (1942) by Frederick Brown
- "The Twonky" (1942) by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (Lewis Padgett)
- "The Wishes We Make" (1943) by E. Mayne Hull
- "Uncommon Sense" (1945) by Hal Clement
- "When Time Was New" (1964) by Robert F. Young
- "Who Goes There?" (1938) - an iconic sci-fi story by John Campbell
- Kingsley Amis "SF-drink" stories
- The funniest golden-age s-f story: "The Proud Robot" (1943) by Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett)
- The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg