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World Literature in English

World Literature in English <i>updated 7/5/2009</i>
World Literature in English updated 7/5/2009
Item# ISBN 0931968658
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What do Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Machiavelli, Tasso, Luther, Ibsen, and Goethe have in common? They are all the same CD set with 1555 books.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our World Literature in English CD contains the full text of 1555 books in plain text format, organized for easy access.

"World literature" means works of prose and poetry originally written in languages other than English. All the texts on this CD are in English translation.

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Table of Contents

International

  • Best of the World's Classics, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Best Ghost Stories (Modern Library)
  • Best Short Stories, edited by Thomas Masson
  • Best Short Stories of 1920 edited by Edward O'Brien
  • The Book of the Epic by H.A. Buerber
  • Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, volume 3 by E. Cobham Brewer
  • Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed, from the Harvard Classics
  • The Continental Classics, Volume 18 -- Mystery Tales (including Dostoyevsky)
  • Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers, edited by Mrs. Valentine
  • Epic and Romance, essays on medieval literature by W.P. Ker
  • Essai sur la Littterature Merveilleuse des Noirs by F.V. Equilbecq, 1913
  • Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by John Ogilvie, 1762
  • Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories, edited by Dorothy Scarborough
  • Folk-Lore and Legends Scandinavian by W.W. Gibbings, 1890
  • The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred Twenty Asiatic Love Poems, translated by Edward Powys Mathers, 1920
  • Great Sea Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French
  • Handbook of Universal Literature by Anne Botta
  • A Hero and Some Other Folks by William Quayle
  • A History of Freedom of Thought by J.B. Bury
  • International Weekly Miscellany
  • Legends of the Middle Ages
  • Library of the World's Best Literature edited by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories edited by Julian Hawthorne
  • Myths and Legends of All Nations, translated by Logan Marshall
  • National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
  • Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook
  • One Hundred Best Books edited by John Cowper Powys
  • One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories, translated by Robert Douglas
  • The Palace of Pleasure, Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels, translated by William Painter
  • Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, from the Harvard Classics
  • Seeing Europe with Famous Authors
  • Short Stories of Various Types edited by Laura Freck
  • Standard Selections edited by Robert Fulton
  • Stories of Many Lands by Grace Greenwood
  • Studies in Literature by John Morly, 1907
  • Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time by James Gray
  • Tales from Many Sources, volume 5
  • The World's Best Poetry edted by Bliss Carman
  • The World's Greatest Books [summaries and author bios] edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, 1910
    • volume 1
      • ABOUT, EDMOND -- King of the Mountains
      • AINSWORTH, HARRISON -- Tower of London
      • ANDERSEN, HANS -- Improvisatore
      • APULEIUS -- The Golden Ass
      • ARABIAN NIGHTS -- AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
      • AUERBACH, BERTHOLD -- On the Height
      • AUSTEN, JANE -- Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma,   Persuasion
      • BALZAC, HONORE DE -- Eugenie Grandet, Old Goriot, Magic Skin, Quest of the Absolute
      • BECKFORD, WILLIAM -- History of the Caliph Vathek
      • BEHN, APHRA -- Oroonoko
      • BERGERAC, CYRANO DE -- Voyage to the Moon
      • BJOERNSON, BJOERNSTJERNE -- Arne, In God's Way
      • BLACK, WILLIAM -- Daughter of Heth
      • BLACKMORE, R.D. -- Lorna Doone
      • BOCCACCIO -- Decameron
    • volume 2
      • BORROW, GEORGE -- Lavengro, Romany Rye
      • BRADDON, M.E. -- Lady Audley's Secret
      • BRADLEY, EDWARD ("COTHBERT BEDE") -- Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
      • BRONTE, CHARLOTTE -- Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette
      • BRONTE, EMILY -- Wuthering Heights
      • BUCHANAN, ROBERT -- Shadow of the Sword
      • BUNYAN, JOHN -- Holy War, Pilgrim's Progress
      • BURNEY, FANNY -- Evelina
      • CARLETON, WILLIAM -- The Black Prophet
      • CARROLL, LEWIS -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
      • CERVANTES --  Don Quixote
      • CHAMISSO, ADALBERT VON -- Peter Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man
      • CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS RENE DE -- Atala
      • CHERBULIEZ, CHARLES VICTOR -- Samuel Brohl & Co.
      • COLLINS, WILKIE -- No Name, The Woman in White
      • CONWAY, HUGH -- Called Back
      • COOPER, FENIMORE -- Last of the Mohicans, The Spy
      • CRAIK, MRS. -- John Halifax, Gentleman
      • CROLY, GEORGE -- Salathiel, or Tarry Thou Till I Come
      • DANA, RICHARD HENRY -- Two Years before the Mast
    • volume 3
      • DAUDET, ALPHONSE --  Tartarin of Tarascon
      • DAY, THOMAS --   Sandford and Merton
      • DEFOE, DANIEL --  Robinson Crusoe,  Captain Singleton
      • DICKENS, CHARLES --  Barnaby Rudge, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby,  Oliver Twist, Old Curiosity Shop, Our Mutual Friend, Pickwick Papers, Tale of Two Cities
      • DISRAELI, BENJAMIN (Earl of Beaconsfield) -- Coningsby, Sybil or The Two Nations, Tancred or The New Crusade
      • DUMAS, ALEXANDRE -- Marguerite de Valois, Black Tulip, Corsican Brothers, Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After
    • volume 4
      • EBERS, GEORG --  An Egyptian Princess
      • EDGEWORTH, MARIE -- Belinda, Castle Rackrent
      • ELIOT, GEORGE -- Adam Bede, Felix Holt, Romola, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss
      • ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN -- Waterloo
      • FEUILLET, OCTAVE -- Romance of a Poor Young Man
      • FIELDING, HENRY -- Amelia, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
      • FLAMMARION, CAMILLE -- Urania
      • FOUQUE, DE LA MOTTE -- Undine
      • GABORIAU, EMILE -- File No. 113
      • GALT, JOHN -- Annals of the Parish
      • GASKELL, MRS. -- Cranford, Mary Barton
      • GODWIN, WILLIAM -- Caleb Williams
      • GOETHE -- Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister
      • GOLDSMITH, OLIVER -- Vicar of Wakefield
      • GONCOURT, EDMOND AND JULES DE -- Renee Mauperin
      • GRANT, JAMES -- Bothwell
    • volume 5
      • GRAY, MAXWELL -- Silence of Dean Maitland
      • GRIFFIN, GERALD -- The Collegians
      • HABBERTON, JOHN -- Helen's Babies
      • HALEVY, LUDOVIC -- Abbe Constantin
      • HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL -- The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables
      • HICHENS, ROBERT -- The Garden of Allah
      • HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL -- Elsie Venner
      • HUGHES, THOMAS -- Tom Brown's Schooldays, Tom Brown at Oxford
      • HUGO, VICTOR -- Les Miserables, Notre Dame de Paris, The Toilers of the Sea, The Man Who Laughs
      • INCHBALD, ELIZABETH -- A Simple Story
      • JAMES, G.P.R. -- Henry Masterton
      • JOHNSON, SAMUEL -- Rasselas
      • JOKAI, MAURICE -- Timar's Two Worlds
      • KERNAHAN, COULSON -- A Dead Man's Diary
      • KINGSLEY, CHARLES -- Alton Locke, Hereward the Wake, Hypatia, Two Years Ago, Water-Babies, Westward Ho!
      • KINGSLEY, HENRY -- Geoffry Hamlyn, Ravenshoe
    • volume 6
      • LE FANU, SHERIDAN -- Uncle Silas
      • LESAGE, RENE -- Gil Blas
      • LEVER, CHARLES -- Charles O'Malley, Tom Burke of Ours
      • LEWIS, M.G. -- Ambrosio, or the Monk
      • LINTON, MRS. LYNN -- Joshua Davidson
      • LOVER, SAMUEL -- Handy Andy
      • LYTTON, EDWARD BULWER -- Eugene Aram, Last Days of Pompeii, The Last of the Barons
      • MACKENZIE, HENRY -- Man of Feeling
      • MAISTRE, COUNT XAVIER DE -- A Journey Round my Room
      • MALORY, SIR THOMAS -- Morte d'Arthur
      • MANNING, ANNE -- Household of Sir Thomas More
      • MANZONI, ALESSANDRO -- The Betrothed
      • MARRYAT, CAPT -- Mr. Midshipman Easy, Peter Simple
      • MATURIN, CHARLES -- Melmoth the Wanderer
      • MENDOZA, DIEGO DE -- Lazarillo de Tonnes
      • MEREJOWSKI, DMITRI -- Death of the Gods
      • MERIMEE, PROSPER -- Carmen
      • MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL -- Our Village
      • MOIR, DAVID -- Mansie Wauch
      • MORIER, JAMES -- Hajji Baba
      • MURRAY, DAVID CHRISTIE -- Way of the World
      • NORRIS, FRANK -- The Pit
      • OHNET, GEORGES -- The Ironmaster
      • OUIDA -- Under Two Flags
      • PAYN, JAMES -- Lost Sir Massingberd
    • Volume 7
      • PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE -- Headlong Hall; Nightmare Abbey
      • PORTER, JANE -- Scottish Chiefs
      • PUSHKIN -- The Captain's Daughter
      • RABELAIS -- Gargantua and Pantagruel
      • READE, CHARLES -- Hard Cash; Never Too Late to Mend; The Cloister and the Hearth
      • RICHARDSON, SAMUEL -- Pamela; Clarissa Harlowe; Sir Charles Grandison
      • RICHTER, JEAN PAUL -- Hesperus; Titan
      • ROSEGGER, PETER -- Papers of the Forest Schoolmaster
      • ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES -- New Heloise
      • SAINT PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE -- Paul and Virginia
      • SAND, GEORGE -- Consuelo, Mauprat
      • SCOTT, MICHAEL -- Tom Cringle's Log
      • SCOTT, SIR WALTER -- Antiquary; Guy Mannering; Heart of Midlothian; Ivanhoe; Kenilworth; Old Mortality;  Peveril of the Peak
    • Volume 8
      • SCOTT, SIR WALTER -- Quentin Durward; Rob Roy; Talisman
      • SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -- Frankenstein
      • SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP -- Arcadia
      • SMOLLET, TOBIAS -- Roderick Random; Peregrine Pickle
      • STAEL, MME. DE -- Corinne
      • STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE) -- Chartreuse of Parma
      • STERNE, LAURENCE -- Tristram Shandy
      • STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
      • SUE, EUGENE -- Mysteries of Paris
      • SWIFT, JONATHAN -- Gulliver's Travels
      • THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE -- Newcomes; Virginians; Vanity Fair
      • TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N. -- Anna Karenina
      • TROLLOPE, ANTHONY -- The Warden; Barchester Towers
      • TURGENEV, IVAN -- Fathers and Sons; A Nest of Nobles; Smoke
      • VERNE, JULES -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
      • WALPOLE, HORACE -- Castle of Otranto
      • ZOLA, EMILE -- Drink
    • Volume 9
      • ABELARD AND HELOISE -- Love-Letters
      • AMIEL, H.F. -- Fragments of an Intimate Diary
      • AUGUSTINE, SAINT -- Confessions
      • BOSWELL, JAMES -- Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
      • BREWSTER, SIR DAVID -- Life of Sir Isaac Newton
      • BUNYAN, JOHN -- Grace Abounding
      • CARLYLE, ALEXANDER -- Autobiography
      • CARLYLE, THOMAS -- Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell; Life of Schiller
      • CELLINI, BENVENUTO -- Autobiography
      • CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS RENE DE -- Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
      • CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF -- Letters to His Son
      • CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS -- Letters
      • COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR -- Biographia Literaria
      • COWPER, WILLIAM --   Letters
      • DE QUINCEY, THOMAS -- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
      • DUMAS, ALEXANDRE -- Memoirs
      • EVELYN, JOHN -- Diary
      • FORSTER, JOHN -- Life of Goldsmith
      • FOX, GEORGE -- Journal
      • FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN -- Autobiography
      • GASKELL, MRS. -- The Life of Charlotte Bronte
      • GIBBON, EDWARD -- Memoirs
      • GOETHE, J.W. VON -- Letters to Zelter; Poetry and Truth; Conversations with Eckermann
      • GRAY, THOMAS -- Letters
      • HAMILTON, ANTONY -- Memoirs of the Count De Grammont
      • HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL -- Our Old Home
    • Volume 10
      • HUGO, VICTOR -- Deeds and Words
      • HUME, MARTIN -- Courtships of Elizabeth, Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots
      • IRVING, WASHINGTON -- Life of Christopher Columbus, Life of George Washington
      • JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS -- Autobiography
      • LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON -- Life of Sir Walter Scott, Life of Robert Burns
      • LUTHER, MARTIN -- Table Talk
      • MIRABEAU, COMTE DE -- Memoirs
      • MOORE, THOMAS -- Life of Byron
      • MORISON, J.A.C. -- Life of St. Bernard
      • MORLEY, JOHN -- Life of Cobden
      • PEPYS, SAMUEL -- Diary
      • PLINY THE YOUNGER -- Letters
      • RICHELIEU, CARDINAL -- Political Testament
      • ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES -- Confessions
      • ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANCOIS DUC de LA -- Memoirs
      • SEVIGNE, Mme. de -- Letters
      • SOUTHEY, ROBERT -- Life of Nelson
      • STAAL, Mme. de -- Memoirs
      • STANHOPE, EARL -- Life of Pitt
      • STANLEY, A.P. -- Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D.
      • STRICKLAND, AGNES -- Life of Queen Elizabeth
      • SWIFT, JONATHAN -- Journal to Stella
      • TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N. -- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; My Confession
      • VILLARI, PASQUALE -- Life of Girolamo Savanarola
      • WESLEY, JOHN -- Journal
      • WOOLMAN, JOHN -- Journal
    • volume 11 -- Ancient and Medieval History
      • MASPERO, GASTON -- Dawn of Civilization, Struggle of the Nations, Passing of the Empires
      • JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS -- Antiquities of the Jews, Wars of the Jews
      • MILMAN, HENRY -- History of the Jews
      • HERODOTUS -- History
      • THUCYDIDES -- Peloponnesian War
      • XENOPHON -- Anabasis
      • GROTE, GEORGE -- History of Greece
      • SCHLIEMANN, HEINRICH -- Troy and Its Remains
      • CAESAR, JULIUS -- Commentaries on the Gallic War
      • TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS -- Annals
      • SALLUST, CATOS CRISPUS -- Conspiracy of Catiline
      • GIBBON, EDWARD -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
      • MOMMSEN, THEODOR -- History of Rome
      • GIBBON, EDWARD -- The Holy Roman Empire
      • GUIZOT, F.P.G. -- History of Civilization in Europe
      • HALLAM, HENRY -- View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages
      • LANE-POOLE, STANLEY -- Egypt in the Middle Ages
      • HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL -- Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
      • FREEMAN, E.A. -- Norman Conquest of England
      • FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY -- History of England
    • volume 12 -- Modern History
      • ELIOT, SAMUEL -- History of the United Stales
      • PRESCOTT, W.H. -- History of the Conquest of Mexico, History of the Conquest of Peru
      • EDWARD HYDE, E. OF CLARENDON -- History of the Rebellion [England]
      • MACAULAY, LORD -- History of England
      • BUCKLE, HENRY -- History of Civilization in England
      • BAGEHOT, WALTER -- English Constitution
      • VOLTAIRE -- Age of Louis XIV
      • TOCQUEVILLE, DE -- Old Regime
      • MIGNET, FRANCOIS -- History of the French Revolution
      • CARLYLE, THOMAS -- History of the French Revolution
      • LAMARTINE, A.M.L. DE -- History of the Girondists
      • TAINE, H.A. -- Modern Regime
      • CARLYLE, THOMAS -- Frederick the Great
      • FINLAY, GEORGE -- History of Greece
      • MOTLEY, J.L. -- Rise of the Dutch Republic, History of the United Netherlands
      • ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART -- History of India
      • VOLTAIRE -- Russia under Peter the Great
      • PRESCOTT, W.H. -- Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
      • VOLTAIRE -- History of Charles XII
      • MILMAN, HENRY -- History of Latin Christianity
      • VON RANKE, LEOPOLD -- History of the Popes
    • volume 13 -- Religion, Philosophy
      •   APOCRYPHA
      • AUGUSTINE, ST. -- City of God
      • BAXTER, RICHARD -- Saints' Everlasting Rest
      • BOOK OF THE DEAD
      • BRAHMANISM, BOOKS OF
      • BROWNE, SIR THOMAS -- Religio Medici
      • CALVIN, JOHN -- Institution of the Christian Religion
      • COLERIDGE, S.T. -- Aids to Reflection
      • CONFUCIANISM
      • FENELON -- Existence of God
      • GALILEO GALILEI -- Authority of Scripture
      • HEGEL, G.W.F. -- Philosophy of Religion
      • HINDUISM, BOOKS OF
      • KEMPIS, THOMAS A -- Imitation of Christ
      • KORAN
      • NEWMAN, CARDINAL -- Apologia pro Vita Sua
      • PAINE, THOMAS -- Age of Reason
      • PASCAL, BLAISE -- Letters to a Provincial
      • PENN, WILLIAM -- Some Fruits of Solitude
      • RENAN, ERNEST -- Life of Jesus
      • SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL -- Heaven and Hell
      • TALMUD
      • ZOROASTRIANISM
      • ARISTOTLE -- Ethics
      • AURELIUS, MARCUS -- Discourses with Himself
      • BACON, FRANCIS -- Advancement of Learning
      • BERKELEY, GEORGE -- Principles of Human Knowledge
      • DESCARTES -- Discourse on Method
      • EMERSON, RALPH WALDO -- Nature
      • EPICTETUS --  Discourses and Encheiridion
    • volume 14
      • HEGEL, G.W.F.  --  The Philosophy of History
      • HUME, DAVID --  Essays, Moral and Political
      • KANT, IMMANUEL--  The Critique of Pure Reason;  The Critique of Practical Reason
      • LEWES, GEORGE HENRY --  A History of Philosophy

        •  LOCKE, JOHN -- Concerning the Human Understanding
      • MONTAIGNE -- Essays

        • PLATO --  The Apology, or Defence of Socrates,  The Republic
        SCHOPENHAUER -- The World as Will and Idea
      • SENECA, L. ANNAEUS -- On Benefits
      •  SPENCER, HERBERT -- Education, Principles of Biology, Principles of Sociology
      • SPINOZA, BENEDICT DE -- Ethics
      • BELLAMY, EDWARD -- Looking Backward
      • BENTHAM, JEREMY -- Principles of Morals and Legislation
      • BLOCH, JEAN -- The Future of War
      • BURKE, EDMUND -- Reflections on the Revolution in France
      • COMTE, AUGUSTE -- A Course of Positive Philosophy
      • GEORGE, HENRY -- Progress and Poverty
      • HOBBES, THOMAS --  The Leviathan
      •  MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO --  The Prince
      •  MALTHUS, T.R. --  On the Principle of Population
      •  MARX, KARL -- Capital: A Critical Analysis
      •  MILL, JOHN STUART --  Principles of Political Economy
      •  MONTESQUIEU --  The Spirit of Laws
      •  MORE, SIR THOMAS -- Utopia Nowhere Land
      •  PAINE, THOMAS --  The Rights of Man
      •  ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES --  The Social Contract
      •  SMITH, ADAM --  Wealth of Nations
    • volume 19
      •  BAKER, SIR SAMUEL   -- Albert N'yanza
      • BORROW, GEORGE --  Wild Wales;  Bible in Spain
      • BOSWELL, JAMES -- Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
      • BRUCE, JAMES --  Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
      • BURCKHARDT, JOHN LEWIS -- Travels in Nubia
      • BURTON, SIR RICHARD --  Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
      • BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM --  Great Lone Land; Wild North Land
      • COOK, JAMES -- Voyages Round the World
      • DAMPIER, WILLIAM --  New Voyage Round the World
      •  DARWIN, CHARLES -- Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle
      •  DUBOIS, FELIX -- Timbuctoo the Mysterious
      • HAKLUYT, RICHARD -- Principal Navigations
      •  KINGLAKE, A. W. --  Eothen
      •  LAYARD, AUSTEN HENRY -- Nineveh and Its Remains
      •  LINNAEUS, CAROLUS -- Tour in Lapland
      •  LIVINGSTONE, DAVID --  Missionary Travels and Researches
      •  LOTI, PIERRE --  Desert
      •  MANDEVILLE, SIR JOHN --  Voyage and Travel
      •  PARK, MUNGO --  Travels in the Interior of Africa
      •  POLO, MARCO --  Travels
      •  SAINT PIERRE, BERNADIN DE -- Voyage to the Isle of France
      •  SPEKE, JOHN HANNING --  Discovery of the Source of the Nile
      •  STERNE, LAURENCE --  Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
      •  VOLTAIRE -- Letters on the English
      •  WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL --  Travels on the Amazon
      •  WARBURTON, ELIOT --  Crescent and the Cross
      •  WATERTON, CHARLES --  Wanderings in South America
      •  YOUNG, ARTHUR --  Travels in France

    Arabic and Persian

    Richard Burton (1821-1890)

    Andrew Lang (editor) (1844-1912)

    John Payne (1842-1916)

  • The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by John Payne (first 4 of 9 volumes)

    • Armenian

    Austrian

    Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)

    Babylonian and Assyrian

    Belgian

    Camille Lemonier

    Brazilian

    Isaac Goldberg

    Chinese

    Danish

    Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)

    Johannes Ewald

    Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885)


     

    Jonas Lie

    Dutch

    A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint

    Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)

    Egyptian

    Finnish

    French

    Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

    Collections and Criticism

    Edmond About (1828-1885)

    Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

    about the Human Comedie about Balzac

    Rene Bazin (1853-1932)

    Hilaire Belloc

    Therese Bentzon (pseudonym of Marie Therese Blanc) (1840-1907)

    Charles de Bernard (1804-1850)

    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Paul Bourget (1852-1935)

    Sebastian Brant (1458-1521)

    Albert Cim (Cimochowski) (1845-1924)

    Jules Claretie (1840-1913)

    Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)

    Madame Cottin

    Henri de Croy

    Berenger de la Tour d'Albenas

    Georges Darien

    Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

    Ernest Daudet

    Joseph de Maistre

    Rene Descartes

    Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

    Gustave Droz (1832-1895)

    Viollet le Duc

    Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870)

    Alexandre Dumas, fils

    Gustave Flaubert (1804-1876)

    about Flaubert

    Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole Thibault) (1844-1924)

    Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)

    Ro. Garnier

    Jules de Gastyne (1847-1920)

    Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)

    Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830 - 1870)

    Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

    Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908)

    Louis Hemon

    Alfred Hennequin (1842-1887)

    Jose-Maria de Heredia (1842-1905)

    Ernest d'Hervilly (1839-1911)

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

    Jorris Karl Huysmans (1848-1907)

    Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693)

    La Fontaine (1621-1695)

    Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)

    Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864)

    Georgette Leblanc

    Maurice Leblanc

    Jules Lermina (1839-1915)

    Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)

    Pierre Loti (1850-1923)

    Hector Malot (1830-1907)

    Pierre Calet Chamlain de Marivaux (1688-1763)

    Philippe de Masa (1831-1911)

    Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

    Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)

    Moliere (pseudonumn of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)

    about Moliere

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

    Henri Murger

    Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)

    Pierre Nicole

    G. le Notre (1855-1935)

    Ph. Nournay

    Georges Ohnet (1848-1918)

    Charles Perrault (1628-1703)

    Abbe Prevost (1697-1763)

    Marcell Proust (1871-1922)

    Francois Rabelais (1483-1553)

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux

    Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)

    Ernest Renan (1823-1892)

    Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

    Edmond Rostand (1869-1918)

    Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

    J.B.H. de Saint Pierre

    George Sand (pseudonym of Lucile Amandine Aurore Dupin, the Baronne Dudevant) (1804-1876)

    Emile Souvestre (1806-1854)

    Eugene Sue (1804-1857)

    Andre Theuriet (1833-1907)

    Leon de Tinseau (1844-1921)

    Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

    Mario Uchard

    Louis Ulbach (1822-1889)

    Octave Uzanne (1852-1931)

    Marguerite, Queen consort of Henry IV, King of France (1553-1615)

    Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747), bio at Widipedia

    Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

    Jules Verne (1828-1905)

    Max du Veuzit and Robert Nunes

    Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863)

    Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

    Emile Zola (1840-1902)

    About Emile Zola:

     

    German and Austrian

    Anonymous

    Collections and Criticism

  • An Anthology of German Literature edited by Calvin Thomas
  • A Book of German Lyrics, in German, edited by Frederick Burns
  • Folk-Lore and Legends -- Germany
  • German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax
  • The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur Renz
  • Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages (1 book)
  • The German Classics of the 19th and 20th Centuries,
  • volume 1 -- Poems and Dramas
  • volume 2 -- Goethe
  • volume 3 -- Schiller
  • volume 4 -- Jean Paul, Humboldt, August Schlegel, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Holderlin, Tieck, Kleist
  • volume 5 -- Romantic Philosophers
  • volume 6 -- Heine, Grillparzer, Beethoven
  • volume 7 -- Hegel et al.
  • volume 8 -- Auerbach et al.
  • volume 9 -- Friedrich Hebbel, Otto Ludwig
  • volume 10 -- Bismarck, Moltke, Lassalle
  • volume 12 -- Freytag, Fontane
  • German Romantics: Peter Schlemihl by Adelbertb Chamiso, The Story Without an End by Carode, Hymns to Night by Novalis (1 book)
  • German Stories volume 1
  • The Fury by Paul Heyse
  • The Philosopher's Pendulum by Rudolph Lindau
  • The Bookbinder of Hort by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • The Egyptian Fire-Eater by Rudolph Baumbach
  • Adventures of a New Year's Eve by Heinrich Zschokke
  • German Stories volume 2
  • Christian Gellert's Last Christmas by Berthold Auerbach
  • A Ghetto Violet by Leopold Kompert
  • The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff
  • Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Stories of Siegfried Told to Children by Mary macGregor
  • Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 by Edward Ziegler Davis
  • Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Brain

    • Bertold Auerbach

    Georg Ebers, in English (1837-1898)

    Frederick Engels (1820-1895), bio at Wikipedia

    Fredrich de la Motte-Fouque

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

    Autobiography
    Egmont, a tragedy in five acts
    Erotica Romana
    Faust Hermann and Dorothea
    Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Anna Swanwick
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    Poems, translated to English by Edgar Alfred Bowring

    about Goethe

    Augusta Groner (1850-1929)

    Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), bio at Wikipedia

    Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), bio at Wikipedia

    E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)

    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), bio at Wikipedia

    Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831)

    Leopold Kompert

    August von Kotzebue (1761-1819), bio at Wikipedia

    Gottfried Leibniz 1646-1716), bio at Wikipedia

    Martin Luther (1483-1546)

    Karl Marx (1818-1883), bio at Wikipedia

    Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)

    Louise Muhlbach (1814-1873)

    F. Max Muller

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Max Nordau

    Rudolph Erich Raspe

    Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), bio at Wikipedia

    Wilhelm Ruland

    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895)

    Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

    August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)

    Arthur Schopenauer

    Tieck

    Richard Wagner

    Greek


     

    Collections and Criticism

    Mythology and Legends

    Aeschylus

    Anacreon

    Apollonius of Rhodes, third century BC

    Aristophanes

    Aristotle

    Demetrios Bikelos (modern)

    Demosthenes

    Epictetus

    Euripides (480-406 BC)

    Hesiod

    Homer (see also, Hesiod for Homerica)

    Longus

    Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-180)

    Lycias

    Pindar

    Plato, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett

    by unknown imitators of Plato

    Plutarch

    • Morals, Ethical Essays, translated by Arhtur Shilleto
    • Essays and Miscellaneous Writings, in English, includes:
      • Philosophical Essays
        • That it is not possible to live pleasurably accoridng to the doctrine of Epicurus
        • That a philosopher ought chiefly to converse with great men
        • Sentiments concerning nature, with which philosophers were delighted
        • Abstract of a disourse showing that the stoics speak greater improabilities than the poets
        • Symposiacs
        • Common conceptions against the stoics
        • Contradictions of the stoics
        • The eating of flesh
        • Concerning fate
        • Against Colotes, the disciple and favorite of Epicurus
        • Platonic questions
      • Literary Essays
        • The life and poetry of Homer
        • The banquet of the seven wise men
        • How a young man ought to hear poems
        • Abstract of a comparison between Aristophanes and Menander
        • The malice of Herodotus
    • Lives or Parallel Lives, translated by A.H. Clough, includes 50 biographies, 23 Greek, 23 Roman, 2 others:
      • Theseus
      • Romulus
      • Lycurgus
      • Numa Pompilius
      • Solon
      • Poplicola
      • Themistocles
      • Camillus
      • Pericles
      • Fabius
      • Alcibiades
      • Coriolanus
      • Timoleon
      • Aemilius Paulus
      • Pelopidas
      • Marcellus
      • Aristides
      • Marcus Cato
      • Philopoemen
      • Flamininus
      • Pyrrhus
      • Caius Marius
      • Lysander
      • Sylla
      • Cimon
      • Lucullus
      • Nicias
      • Crassus
      • Sertorius
      • Eumenes
      • Agesilaus
      • Pompey
      • Alexander
      • Caesar
      • Phocion
      • Cato the Younger
      • Agis
      • Cleomenes
      • Tiberius Gracchus
      • Caius Gracchus
      • Demosthenes
      • Cicero
      • Demetrius
      • Antony
      • Dion
      • Marcus Brutus
      • Aratus
      • Artaxerxes
      • Galba
      • Otho

    Quintus of Smyrna

    Sappho

    Sophocles

    Theocritus

    Xenophon

    Hawaiian


     

    Hungarian


     

    Maurice Jokai

    Icelandic

    Indian

    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

    Hinduism

    Buddhism

    Italian

    Collections and Criticism and Anonymous

    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

  • Divine Comedy In English translation:
  • translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy
  • translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
  • translated by Charles Eliot Norton
  • Hell
  • Purgatory
  • Paradise
  • about Dante
  • Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler
  • Dante: The Central Man of All the World by John Slattery

    • Edmondo de Amicis

    Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

    Giambattista Basile

    Ambrogio Bazzero

    Giambattista Bazzoni

    Giovanni Berchet

    Vittorio Bersezio

    Paolo Bettoni

    Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1350)

    Giordano Bruno

    Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1567)

    Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)

    Jacques Casanova de Seingault (1725-1798)

    Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)

    Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729)

    Giacomo Leopardi

    Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

    Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

    Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), bio at Wikipedia

    Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

    Giorgio Vasari

    • Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

    Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

    Japanese

    Latin/Roman

    General

    Lucius Apuleius

    Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor

    Cassiodorus

    Catullus

    Julius Caesar

    Cicero

    Cassius Dio

    Horace

    Longinus

    Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

    Titus Lucretius Carus

    Thomas Macaulay, translator to English

    Ovid

    Petronius Arbiter

    Phaedrus

    Pliny the Younger

    Prudentius

    Sallust

    L. Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

    Tacitus

    Terence

    Tibullus

    Virgil (70-19 BC)

    Lithuanian

    Eliza Orzeszkowa

    Mexican

    Frances Calderon de la Barca

    Native American

    Norwegian

    Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832 - 1910)

    Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)

    Philippines

    Polish

    Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

    Romanian

    Russian

    Collections and About Russian Literature

    Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919)

    Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

    Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816)

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (1821-1881)

  • The Brothers Karamazov, translated by Constance Garnett
  • Crime and Punishment, translated to English by Constance Garnett
  • The Gambler, translated to English by C. J. Hogarth
  • The Grand Inquisitor (short)
  • The Idiot, translated to English by Eva Martin
  • Notes from the Underground, in English
  • Poor Folk, translated by C. J. Hogarth
  • The Possessed (in html format)

    • Nikolai Gogol  (1809-1852)

  • Dead Souls, translated to English by D.J. Hogarth
  • The Inspector General, translated to English by Thomas Seltzer
  • St. John's Eve (short)
  • Taras Bulba and Other Stories, in English
  • Taras Bulba
  • St. John's Eve
  • The Cloak
  • How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
  • The Mysterious Portrait
  • The Calash

    • Ivan Goncharov

    Maxim Gorky

    Peter Kropotkin

    Alexandra Kuprin

    Lermontov


    Nicholas Nekrassov (1821-1877)

    Alexander Ostrovsky  (1823-1886)

    Boris Pilnyak (Boris Vogau)

    Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

    Feodor Sologub

    Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

  • Anna Karenina, translated to English by Constance Garnett


    • Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

    South African

    Arthur Shearly Cripps

    Olive Schreiner

    Spanish

    Anonymous

    Jaime Balmes

    Pio Baroja

    Emilia Pardo Bazan (1852-1921)

    Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)


    Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870)

    Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

    Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928)

    Swedish Literature

    August Strindberg (1849-1912)

    Esaias Tegne'r


     

    Swiss

    An Account of the Romansh Language, 1775, by Joseph Planta

    Johanna Spyri (1827-1901)

    Johann David Wyss (1743-1818)

    Turkish

    Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi