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THE IDIOT – Fyodor Dostoyevsky / eBook & Audiobook
“The Idiot” is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Initially published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger, 1868-1869, the author writes its entirety in Europe in a time of deep poverty, desperation and nostalgia for his home country. The Idiot, as an introspective and psychographic work that realistically embodies the personal turbulences and existential explorations of the author, is highly experiential and investigates matters of spirituality as well as philosophy…..
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translator: Eva Martin
Publisher: OpenRightsLibrary
Date of first publication: 1868-1869
Size: 780 p. / 4 Mb
Licenses: Public Domain (Life+70 years), Pr. Gutenberg License
Format: Online Pdf, AudioBook
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – Jane Austen / eBook
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential….
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: eBooks@Adelaide
Size: 469 p. / 3.79 Mb
License: Public Domain (Life+70 years)
Format: Online Pdf, ePUB, KindleMobi, AudioBook
THE UGLY DUCKLING – Hans Christian Andersen / eBook & text
The Ugly Duckling (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a children’s tale by Danish poet and writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The Ugly Duckling was first published in 1843. The story tells of a swan born into a family of ducks and the other farm’s animals believe that doesn’t belong with them. Wherever he goes the Ugly Duckling, encounters animals that shun him because is different…
THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS – Edgar Allan Poe / eBook
Poe, in 1845, finally won popular recognition as a poet. The Raven and Other Poems, published late in that year, was the last of Poe’s volumes of verse to appear during his lifetime, but the first to enjoy considerable success. In the four years of his life that remained he published, in periodicals, poems as good as anything in the volume of 1845….
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction: Thomas Ollive Mabbott
Publication: Columbia University Press, 1942
Size: 152 p. / 16.1 mb
License: Public Domain (Life+70 years)
Digitization: Google
Format: Online Pdf
THE RAVEN – Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated by Gustave Doré) / eBook
“The Raven” is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man’s slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore….
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Comment: Edmund Clarence Stedman
Illustrator: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1884
Size: 76 p. / 41 mb
License: Public Domain (Life+70 years)
Format: Online Pdf
ANIMAL FARM – George Orwell / eBook & Audiobook
“Animal Farm” is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War…..
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: eBooks@Adelaide
Date of first publication: 17 August 1945
Size: 107 p. / 732 Kb
License: Public Domain (Life+70 years)
Format: Online Pdf, AudioBook, ePUB, KindleAzw3
LENORE – Edgar Allan Poe / text & ebook
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Baltimore in 1811. He graduated at the University of Virginia in 1826 and having spent a year in Europe, he returned to America, and was for a number of years editor of different magazines, among which was the “Broadway Journal.” The poem of Lenore was always his favorite, and above his desk always hung the romantic picture of his loved and lost Lenore…
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction: Henry “Hy” Sandham
Publication: Estes and Lauriat, Boston, 1886
Size: 24 p. / 1.70 mb
License: Public Domain (Life+70 years)
Format: Online Pdf
HAMLET – William Shakespeare / eBook
“Hamlet”, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother’s widow….
ROMEO AND JULIET – William Shakespeare / eBook & Audiobook
“Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays…..
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN – Mark Twain / eBook
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism….
