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Gustav Frenssen · German
Ein gemeinfreier Klassiker über norddeutsches Leben, Familie, religiöse Suche, Landschaft und bäuerliche Welt.
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German
Literature
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Gustav Frenssen · German
Ein gemeinfreier Klassiker über norddeutsches Leben, Familie, religiöse Suche, Landschaft und bäuerliche Welt.

Spanish
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Leandro Fernández de Moratín · Spanish
Un clásico de dominio público sobre teatro, crítica literaria, vanidad, sátira, gusto y reforma ilustrada.

French
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Honoré de Balzac · French
Un classique du domaine public consacré à ambition provinciale, rivalités ecclésiastiques, réputation et comédie sociale.

French
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Honoré de Balzac · French
Un classique du domaine public consacré à médecine, village, réforme sociale, province, charité et mémoire napoléonienne.

Portuguese
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Camilo Castelo Branco · Portuguese
Um clássico em domínio público sobre prisão, sociedade, culpa, memória, observação humana e crônica autobiográfica.

Portuguese
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Basílio da Gama · Portuguese
Um clássico em domínio público sobre guerra guaranítica, natureza americana, império, missão e tragédia indígena.

Italian
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Giuseppe Antonio Borgese · Italian
Un classico di pubblico dominio su crisi morale, dopoguerra, ambizione, ideologia, coscienza moderna e borghesia.

German
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · German
Ein gemeinfreier Klassiker über Bildung, Wanderschaft, Entsagung, Arbeit, Gesellschaft und späte Goethezeit.

Japanese
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Arishima Takeo · Japanese
北海道開拓、貧困、労働、暴力、罪悪感、人間の孤独を描く近代日本文学の公版原文作品。

Japanese
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Arishima Takeo · Japanese
女性の自我、恋愛、社会的束縛、孤独、反抗、心理小説を描く近代日本文学の公版原文作品。

Japanese
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Tokuda Shūsei · Japanese
家庭生活、貧困、倦怠、夫婦関係、心理描写、自然主義文学を描く近代日本文学の公版原文作品。

English
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Thomas Hardy · English
A Hardy novel of inheritance, architecture, modern technology, divided faith, romance, and uncertainty.

English
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Thomas Love Peacock · English
A satirical country-house novel of eccentric talkers, reform schemes, politics, learning, and comic argument.

English
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Aphra Behn · English
Aphra Behn’s influential novella of slavery, colonial violence, honor, love, betrayal, and royal identity.

English
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E. W. Hornung · English
The first A. J. Raffles stories: gentleman burglary, friendship, sport, risk, disguise, and moral ambiguity.

English
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Margaret Cavendish · English
A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

English
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Wilkie Collins · English
A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

English
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Anthony Trollope · English
A Barsetshire novel of courtship, loyalty, ambition, family pressure, social position, and moral patience.

English
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William Congreve · English
A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

English
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George Chetwynd Griffith · English
An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

English
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Thomas Hardy · English
An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

English
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Robert Louis Stevenson · English
Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

French
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Germaine de Staël · French
Un grand roman européen sur l’Italie, le génie féminin, l’amour, l’exil, l’art et la société.

German
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Arthur Schnitzler · German
Ein brillantes Einakterspiel über Theater, Wirklichkeit, Revolution, Rollenspiel und gesellschaftliche Maske.