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• THE COMPLETE (522) STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV: SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS

• CHEKHOV STORIES ON THIS SITE
  • "An Unpleasantness" (1888) by Anton Chekhov
  • A selection of Chekhov’s captions to humorous drawings
  • "A Visit With Friends" by Anton Chekhov (1898)
  • "The Nightingale’s Benefit Performance" by Anton Chekhov (1883)
  • "Nothing To Be Done!" and other previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
  • "To Cure a Drinking Bout" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
  • "Lost Business" and other previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
  • Fourteen of the best previously-untranslated Chekhov stories
  • "Saintly Simplicity" (1885) by Anton Chekhov
  • "In Autumn" (1883), by Anton Chekhov
  • "The Sinner from Toledo" (1881) - a denunciation of religious extremism by Anton Chekhov
  • "A Living Calendar" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
  • "An Enigmatic Nature" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
  • "The Black Monk" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
  • "Anyuta" and other Chekhov stories
  • "The Huntsman" and other Chekhov stories
  • "Ward No. 6" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
  • "Easter Eve" and other great Chekhov stories
  • "The Lady with the Dog" and other great stories by Anton Chekhov
  • Anton Chekhov’s funniest story: "From the Diary of a Violent-tempered Man" (1887)
  • INDEX OF THE CHEKHOV STORIES ON THIS SITE

Dickens

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• THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS: SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS

• THE 15 NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS
  • "The Pickwick Papers" (1837) by Charles Dickens
  • "Oliver Twist" (1838), by Charles Dickens
  • "Nicholas Nickleby" (1839) by Charles Dickens
  • "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1841) by Charles Dickens
  • "Barnaby Rudge" (1841) by Charles Dickens
  • "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1844) - where Charles Dickens goes to America
  • "Dombey and Son" (1846) by Charles Dickens
  • "David Copperfield" (1850) by Charles Dickens
  • "Bleak House" (1853) by Charles Dickens
  • "Hard Times" (1854) by Charles Dickens
  • “Little Dorrit” (1857) by Charles Dickens
  • "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) by Charles Dickens
  • "Great Expectations" (1861) by Charles Dickens
  • "Our Mutual Friend" (1865), by Charles Dickens
  • "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (1869) - the last work of Charles Dickens
• STORIES AND ESSAYS BY CHARLES DICKENS
  • "The Five Sisters of York" and "The Baron of Grogzwig" — tales by Charles Dickens from his novel "Nicolas Nickleby"
  • "A Christmas Carol" (1843) by Charles Dickens
  • "In Memoriam to William Makepeace Thackeray" - by Charles Dickens
  • "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) - a great late story by Charles Dickens

Jack London

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• THE COMPLETE STORIES (205) AND NOVELS (15) OF JACK LONDON: SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS

• A SELECTION OF JACK LONDON STORIES
  • "A Klondike Wooing" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
  • "A Klondike Christmas" and other stories of the Far North, by Jack London
  • The Science-fiction stories of Jack London
  • "In the Time of Prince Charley" and other stories by Jack London
  • "Make Westing" and other stories by Jack London
  • "The Pearls of Parlay" and other stories by Jack London
  • More of Jack London’s best Far North stories
  • "The White Man’s Way" and other Klondike stories by Jack London
  • "Before Adam" (1906) - a prehistoric adventure novella by Jack London
  • Jack London’s boxing stories
  • "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (1902) - an adventure novella by Jack London
  • "The Sunlanders" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
  • "By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
  • "The Call of the Wild" (1903) by Jack London
  • Jack London’s two war stories
  • A selection of South Seas stories by Jack London
  • Twelve of Jack London’s best Far North stories
  • Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
  • Jack London’s funniest story: "That Spot" (1908)
  • "The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - a memorable Hobo story by Jack London
  • Index of the Jack London stories on this site
• A SELECTION OF JACK LONDON NOVELS
  • "The Sea Wolf" (1904) by Jack London
  • "White Fang" (1906) by Jack London
  • "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism
  • "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London
  • "Burning Daylight" (1910) - Jack London’s last Klondike novel
  • "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London
  • "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London
  • "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London (1915)
  • "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)
  • "The Little Lady of the Big House" by Jack London (1916)
• JACK LONDON MEMOIRS
  • "The Road" (1907) - Jack London’s vivid account of his hobo days
  • "Through the South Seas with Jack London" by Martin Johnson
  • Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)

Maupassant

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• THE COMPLETE (300) STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT: SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS

• A SELECTION OF MAUPASSANT STORIES
  • "The Window" and other Gallic stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "On a Spring Evening" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "A Christmas Tale (Conte de Noël)" by Guy de Maupassant
  • "The Thief" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "The Olive Grove" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "A Family Affair" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • Corsican stories by Maupassant
  • "Suicides" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "The Burning Log" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "At the Spa" 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
  • "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
  • "La petite Roque" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "An Outing in the Countryside" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "Boule de Suif" and other famous stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • Index of the Maupassant stories on this site

A. E. van Vogt

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• THE COMPLETE STORIES (104) AND NOVELS (34) OF A. E. VAN VOGT: SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS

• A SELECTION OF VAN VOGT STORIES
  • "Abdication" by A. E. van Vogt and E. M. Hull (1943)
  • "Not Only Dead Men" (1942): an early A. E. van Vogt story
  • "The Flight That Failed" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt and E. M. Hull
  • More of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories
  • Three of A. E. van Vogt’s best late-period stories: "Itself" (1963), "Lost: Fifty Suns" (1972) and "The Timed Clock" (1972)
  • "The Expendables" and other late-period stories by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Ghost" and other golden-age stories by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Ride In, Killer!" (1951) - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Perfect Day" (1981) by A. E. van Vogt - never before published in English
  • The Silkie Stories (1964-1967) 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 Weapon Shop" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "War of Nerves" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "M33 in Andromeda" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Discord in Scarlet" by A. E. van Vogt (1939)
  • "Black Destroyer" (1939) - the original text of A. E. van Vogt’s first published s-f story
  • The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt
  • Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Destination: Universe!" - A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
  • "Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology
  • "Dormant" (1948) - a great golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Vault of the Beast" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first s-f story
  • "The Sea Thing" (1940) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Centaurus II" (1947) by A. E. van Vogt - a golden-age novelette never before republished
  • "The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story
  • "The Beast" - an early van Vogt novella now available for the first time since 1943
  • "The Shadow Men" (1950) — an outstanding golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished
  • INDEX OF THE VAN VOGT STORIES ON THIS SITE
    • INDEX OF THE VAN VOGT STORIES ON THIS SITE
• A SELECTION OF VAN VOGT NOVELS
  • "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel
  • "The Weapon Makers" (1943) - the original version of A. E. van Vogt’s first "Weapon Shop" novel (never before republished)
  • "The Book of Ptath" (1943) - A. E. van Vogt’s only fantasy novel
  • "The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt
  • "The Voyage of The Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt – the “fix-up” novel
  • "The Mixed Men" novel (1952) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Universe Maker" (1953) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Mind Cage" (1957) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Winged Man" (1966), a novel by A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull
  • "Cosmic Encounter" (1980) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The War Against the Rull" by A. E. van Vogt (1959)

Stefan Zweig

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• THE COMPLETE (44) STORIES OF STEFAN ZWEIG: SYNOPSES, COMMENTS AND RATINGS

• A SELECTION OF STEFAN ZWEIG STORIES AND ESSAYS
  • "Scarlet Fever" by Stefan Zweig (1908)
  • "Twilight Story" by Stefan Zweig (1908)
  • "Unexpected Acquaintance with a Craft" by Stefan Zweig (1934)
  • "Springtime in the Prater (Praterfrühling)" by Stefan Zweig (1900)
  • "Forgotten Dreams" (1900), Stefan Zweig’s remarkable first published story
  • "The Love of Erika Ewald" (1904), an early masterpiece by Stefan Zweig
  • "The Debt Paid Late (1941)" – one of Stefan Zweig’s best stories now available on-line in English
  • "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" by Stefan Zweig (1925)
  • "Fear (Angst)" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
  • "The Fantastic Night (Phantastische Nacht)" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
  • "Amok" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
  • "Chess Story (Schachnovelle)" (1942) by Stefan Zweig
  • "Mendel the Book-dealer (Buchmendel)" (1929) by Stefan Zweig
  • "The Invisible Collection" (1925) and other stories by Stefan Zweig
  • "Burning Secret" (1911) by Stefan Zweig
  • "The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" – Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history (1940)
  • "Letter From an Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten)" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
  • "In the Snow" (1901) and other stories by Stefan Zweig
  • INDEX OF THE STEFAN ZWEIG TEXTS ON THIS SITE

Stories

Articles

• "Colonel Chabert" by Honoré de Balzac (1832)
• "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac (1831)
• "Mountain Cristal (Bergkristall)" by Adalbert Stifter (1853)
• "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (1899)
• "The Love Song of the Tomcat Murr" by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1821)
• "Twice-Told Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837)
• "Youth is Beautiful" by Hermann Hesse (1916)
• "Granite" (1853) by the Austrian writer and painter Adalbert Stifter
• "Immensee" (1849) by Theodor Sturm
• "Cards at Dawn" (Spiel im Morgengrauen), aka "Night Games", by Arthur Schnitzler (1926)
• "The Stone Heart " by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1817)
• "Gambler’s Luck" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1820)
• "Mozart’s Journey From Vienna to Prague" by Eduard Mörike (1855)
• “Caliph Stork” and 7 other fairy tales by Wilhelm Hauff (1826)
• "The Engagement in St. Domingo" by Heinrich von Kleist (1811)
• "The Story of the Good Kasperl and the Pretty Annerl" by Clemens Brentano (1817)
• "The Marquise of O..." by Heinrich von Kleist (1808)
• "Investigations of a Dog" (1922) by Franz Kafka
• "Literary Lapses" - 40 tales by Stephen Leacock (1910)
• "The Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
• "Casanova’s Homecoming" (1918) by Arthur Schnitzler
• "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" (1914) - 8 tales by Stephen Leacock
• "White Nights" (1848) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• "Lieutenant Gustl" (1900) by Arthur Schnitzler
• "The Cremona Violin (Rat Krespel)" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1818)
• "The District Doctor" (1848) by Ivan Turgenev
• "The Queen of Spades" (1834) by Alexander Pushkin
• "Counterparts" (1914) by James Joyce
• "The Sandman" (1816) by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• "The Burrow (Der Bau)" (1922) by Franz Kafka
• "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "A Report to an Academy" (1920) by Franz Kafka
• "Candide" (1759) by Voltaire
• "The Wonderful Story of Peter Schlemihl" by Adelbert von Chamisso (1814)
• "The Judgement (Das Urteil)" (1913), by Franz Kafka
• "The Marble Statue" (1819) by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
• "A Country Doctor" (1918) by Franz Kafka
• "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" - 12 Tales by Stephen Leacock (1912)
• "A Hunger Artist" (1922) by Franz Kafka
• "Don Juan" (1813), by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• "The Golden Pot" (1819) by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• "Little Zaches, called Zinnober" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1819)
• "The Metamorphosis" (1915) by Franz Kafka
• "Petersburg Tales" - 5 stories by Nikolai Gogol
• "A Simple Soul (Un cœur simple)" by Gustave Flaubert (1877)
• Herman Melville’s masterful story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853)
• "From the Life of a Good-for-nothing (Taugenichts)" (1826) — a Romantic classic by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
• "War" (1918): Luigi Pirandello’s memorable story about parenthood in wartime
• "The Promenade (Der Spaziergang)" (1917) by Robert Walser
• "The Bottle Imp" (1891) - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A selection of 3 of Nelson Algren’s best short stories
• "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka
• "The Mysterious Cup" (Der Pokal, 1812) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism
• "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
• INDEX OF ALL THE STORIES ON THIS SITE

Novels

Articles

• "Ivanhoe’ by Walter Scott (1819)
• "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence (1913)
• "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
• "The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler (1903)
• "The Red Badge of Courage" by Steven Crane (1895)
• "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy (1895)
• "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy (1891)
• "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy (1886)
• "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884)
• "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James (1881)
• "Washington Square" by Henry James (1880)
• "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy (1878)
• "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain (1876)
• "Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy (1874)
• "Middlemarch" by George Eliot (1872)
• "The Eustache Diamonds" by Anthony Trollope (1870)
• "The Last Chronicle of Barset" by Anthony Trollope (1867)
• "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot (1860)
• "Barchester Towers" by Anthony Trollope (1857)
• "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville (1850)
• "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
• "Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray (1848)
• "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë (1847)
• "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
• "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin (1813)
• "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austin (1811)
• "Tristam Shandy" by Laurence Sterne (1759)
• "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by Henry Fielding (1749)
• "Gulliver’s Travels" by Jonathan Swift (1729)
• "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe (1719)
• "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James (1898)
• "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe
• "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927) by B. Traven
• "The Death Ship" (1926) by B. Traven
• "The War of the Worlds" (1898) by H. G. Wells
• "Dead Souls" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol
• "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell (1949)

• THRILLERS
  • "Little Caesar" (1929) by W. R. Burnett
  • "Rogue Male" (1939) by Geoffrey Household
  • "The Most Dangerous Game" (1964) by Gavin Lyall
• INDEX OF THE NOVELS ON THIS SITE
  • INDEX OF ALL THE NOVELS ON THIS SITE

Youth literature

Articles

• "Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
• "Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Adventures" by Selma Lagerlöf (1906)
• "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
• "The Jungle Book and other stories" by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
• "Maid Marian" by Thomas Love Peacock (1822) – the original Robin Hood story
• "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll (1871)
• "Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie (1911)
• "Treasure Island" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) by Lewis Carroll
• "Nutcracker and the Mouse-King" (1816) – a fairy-tale for everyone by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• "Animal Farm" (1945) by George Orwell
• "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum
• Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)
• "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann, an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave – or else!

Sci-fi

Articles

• "The Time Machine" (1895) by H. G. Wells
• "Who Goes There?" (1938) - an iconic sci-fi story by John Campbell
• "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner
• "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn
• "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
• "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown
• "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" by Harry Bates (1940)
• "He Who Shrank" (1936) by Henry Hasse
• "The Star Mouse" (1942) by Frederick Brown
• "Correspondence Course" (1945) by Raymond F. Jones
• "The Twonky" (1942) by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (Lewis Padgett)
• "Uncommon Sense" (1945) by Hal Clement
• The funniest golden-age sci-fi story: "The Proud Robot" (1943) by Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett)
• "A Matter of Size" (1934) by Harry Bates
• "Skirmish (Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!)" (1950) by Clifford Simak
• "When Time Was New" (1964) by Robert F. Young
• "The Wishes We Make" (1943) by E. Mayne Hull
• The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg
• Two "Sci-fi drink" stories by Kingsley Amis

• INDEX OF THE SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES ON THIS SITE
  • INDEX OF THE SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES ON THIS SITE, by author

Memoirs

Articles

• "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)
• "Letter to Father" (1919) by Franz Kafka
• "Anabasis, or The Retreat of the Ten Thousand", by Xenophon
• "Commentaries on the Gallic War" by Julius Caesar
• "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) by George Orwell
• "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933) by George Orwell
• "Typee" (1846) by Herman Melville - a fascinating account of life in a South Sea island before the spread of Western civilization
• "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
• Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)

Poetry

Articles

• "Tobacco Shop (Tabacaria)" by Fernando Pessoa (1928)
• "Waiting for the Barbarians" (1904) by Constantin Cavafy
• An anthology of famous French poems, with their English translations
• A selection of Tang Dynasty poems
• The Lyrical Ballads (1798) version of Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" – the original and arguably most authentic text
• "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
• The Lyrical Ballads (1798) version of Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey" - the original and most authentic text
• Thoughts on reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", translated by Edward Fitzgerald
• An anthology of great English poems

Essays

Articles

• "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Étienne de la Boétie (1548)
• English is a wordy language!
• The Great Baseball Scandal - how the Mob won the 1919 World Series, by Nelson Algren
• A comparative study of the vocabulary of the greatest Western authors – and the winner is: THOMAS MANN
• Our selection of the world’s greatest novels
• More of the world’s greatest novels
• Interesting things read recently that I would like to share with you
• "I Love Awfully Bad Writing", by James Clarke
• "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling", by Mark Twain

German studies

Articles

• German prefixes and suffixes - an overview
• A comparative study of the vocabulary of the greatest Western authors – and the winner is: THOMAS MANN
• Lexical analysis of "The Magic Mountain": more than 3,300 neologisms and an unparalleled number of different words (36,097) !
• Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)
• German Literature – a personal survey
• The average number of meanings per word in German
• A 34,000-word German-English literary dictionary
• "The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain

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