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Welcome to Prospero’s Isle, a site designed to make great works of world literature available in English in on-line and e-book formats, free of charge and above all free of publicity.
Centred on short fiction by the great writers whose works in this format have best passed the test of time in our opinion (Chekhov, Maupassant, Jack London and Stefan Zweig, as well as A.E. van Vogt in the science-fiction domain), the site also contains a great many outtstanding stories by other writers, as (...)

Total visits in January 2023: 39,782
Total visits over the past 12 months: 659,853 TEXTS MOST VISITED CUMULATIVELY AT END FEBRUARY 2023 Rank __________________Title_____________________________________ Total Visits Date Posted____ Previous Rank 1 "The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story 91,481 Oct. 2013 1 2 "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English 82,196 April 2018 (...)

Showing the number of stories, novels, poems, memoirs, essays and e-books for each of the 80 authors whose works are contained on this site.

The 246 e-books available for downloading on this site are listed here in alphabetical order by author and title.
They are all in the standard ePub format, used by all the leading e-book readers and applications, notably Kindle [1] and Kobo. N° AUTHOR_________________ TITLE_____________________________________________________________ GENRE_____ SECTION_______ 1 Nelson Algren A Selection of Nelson Aldren’s Best Short Stories anthology Stories 2 Nelson Algren The Great Baseball (...)