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Marius the Epicurean

Walter Pater · English

Walter Pater’s philosophical historical novel of Roman culture, aesthetic experience, and spiritual searching.

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Grazia Deledda · Italian

Un romanzo di Grazia Deledda su memoria, desiderio, sradicamento e inquietudine interiore.

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Virginia Woolf · English

Virginia Woolf’s playful, time-spanning novel of identity, biography, gender, and literary history.

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Os Pobres

Raul Brandão · Portuguese

Um romance sombrio e lírico sobre miséria, consciência social, sofrimento e humanidade invisível.

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The Absentee

Maria Edgeworth · English

A sharp Anglo-Irish novel about estate duty, social ambition, inheritance, and national belonging.

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Winnetou

Karl May · German

Karl Mays berühmter Abenteuerroman um Freundschaft, Grenzland, Idealismus und den Apachen Winnetou.

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たけくらべ

Ichiyō Higuchi · Japanese

吉原近くの子どもたちの成長、淡い恋、階層の影を繊細に描く一葉の代表作。

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喻世明言

Feng Menglong · Chinese

明代白话短篇小说经典，写世情、人情、婚恋、命运与市井生活。

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金色夜叉

Ozaki Kōyō · Japanese

愛、金銭、裏切り、近代の欲望を劇的に描いた尾崎紅葉の人気長編。

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De Profundis

Oscar Wilde · English

A public-domain classic on prison writing, suffering, love, humiliation, art, and spiritual reckoning.

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The Metal Monster

A. Merritt · English

A public-domain classic on lost worlds, strange metallic intelligence, scientific romance, adventure, and cosmic mystery.

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The Purple Land

W. H. Hudson · English

A public-domain classic on South American travel, romance, political unrest, landscape, and freedom.

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The Reef

Edith Wharton · English

A public-domain classic on love, secrecy, social pressure, memory, and psychological realism.

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Der Büttnerbauer

Wilhelm von Polenz · German

Ein gemeinfreier Klassiker über Bauerntum, soziale Frage, Verschuldung, Dorfleben und realistischer Gesellschaftsroman.

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Der Wehrwolf

Hermann Löns · German

Ein gemeinfreier Klassiker über Dreißigjähriger Krieg, Bauern, Gewalt, Überleben, Heimat und Gemeinschaft.

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