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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.

Young Goodman Brown was written in the year 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

David Swan was written in the year 1837 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

A classic detective story, the second one in the "Monsieur Lecoq" series.

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty

Ein Verteidiger was written in the year 1900 by Dietrich Theden. This book is one of the most popular novels of Dietrich Theden, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

The Daughter of Brahma was written in the year 1912 by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie. This book is one of the most popular novels of Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Excerpt:When Peter Moore entered the static-room, picked his way swiftly and unnoticingly across the littered floor, and jerked open the frosted glass door of the chief operator's office, the assembled operators followed him with glances of admiration and concern. No one ever entered the Chief's office in that fashion. One waited until called upon.

An ancient feud between two frontier families is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. In the grip of their relentless code of loyalty, they fight a war in Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, neither side seeing the futility of the conflict. Surrounded by this volatile environment, young Jean finds himself hopelessly in love with a girl from whom he is separated by an impassable barrier.

Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872.

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set in the jungle--in a room in Challenger's house. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to affect his writing.

Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend, an unnamed narrator who agrees to visit his old friend. Legrand pulls the other two into an adventure after deciphering a secret message that will lead to a buried treasure.

Posdnyschew, Mörder seiner Frau, frühzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervösem Gebaren, hört auf einer längeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden über Liebe als Grundbedingung für eine glückliche Ehe diskutieren – eine Ansicht, die vor allem von einer nicht mehr jungen, häßlichen, rauchenden Dame vertreten wird. Ein alter Kaufmann dagegen vertritt rigoros patriarchalische, antiquiert anmutende Ansichten. Endlich, nachdem die meisten ausgestiegen sind, erzählt Posdnyschew seine Geschichte: Als junger Mann, nach Jahren des Alleineseins beschließt er zu heiraten. Obwohl er körperliche Begehrlichkeiten als „tierisch“ ablehnt, ist er von der Sinnlichkeit seiner Frau angezogen und fasziniert, sie bekommen fünf Kinder. Seine Gattin – sie ist eine nun dreißigjährige Schönheit – erfährt, dass sie aus gesundheitlichen Gründen keine Kinder mehr bekommen darf, damit ist jede körperliche Beziehung zu Ende. Sie widmet sich nun ihren persönlichen Neigungen, besonders dem Klavierspiel. Posdnyschew argwöhnt, dass sie nach einer neuen Liebe Ausschau hält, und er vergeht vor Eifersucht, wenn sie in dem gemeinsamen Haus mit einem Geiger musiziert (die „Kreutzersonate“). So kommt es zur Zuspitzung des Ehekonflikts, er tötet die vermeintliche Ehebrecherin.

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar was written in the year 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Allan Poe, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Rudin was written in the year 1857 by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. This book is one of the most popular novels of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Armance was written in the year 1928 by Stendhal. This book is one of the most popular novels of Stendhal, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.