World Literature (non-English; whenever possible including both the original and English translation)

Copyright © 2001 Richard Seltzer

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Table of Contents of the World Literature CD

This World Literature 2-CD set, with 3565 books, isavailable for $49 at our online store.


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)

  • Argentinian


    Armenian


    Assyrian and Babylonian


    Belgian


    Hendrik (Henri) Conscience (1812-1883)


    Georges Eekhoud


    Camille Lemonier


    Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)


    Brazilian

    Isaac Goldberg


    Chinese


    Danish

    Books in the Danish Language

    Herman Bang (1857-1912)

    Richard Kaufmann

    Chris K.F. Molbech

    Danish books translated to English

    Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)

    Carl Ewald

    Johannes Ewald

    Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885)

    Jonas Lie


    Dutch


    A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint


    Eduard Douwes Dekker (AKA Multatuli)


    Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)


    Heinrich Heine


    Captain John Gabriel Stedman


    L. Schipper


    Egyptian


    Estonian


    Finnish


    Books in the Finnish Language

    Anonymous

    Alfhild Agrell (1849-1923

    Juhani Aho (1861-1921)

    Jacob Ahrenberg (1847-1914)

    Aina (1856-1928)

    Santeri Alkio (1862-1920)

    Kotimainen Alkuteos

    Erik Bogh

    Fredika Bremer (1801-1865)

    J. W. Calammius (1838-1891)

    Minna Canth (1844-1897)

    Elizabeth Charles

    Holger Drachmann (1846-1908)

    Barta Edelfelt (1837-1923)

    Betty Elfving (1837-1923)

    Kristian Elster (1841-1881)

    J.H. Erkko (1849-1906)

    Pekka Ervast (1875-1934)

    Gustaf Erik Euren (1818-1872)

    Maikki Friberg (1861-1927)

    Ellen Fries (1855-1900)

    Maria Furuhjelm (1846-1916)

    Bernhard Frederick Godenhjelm (1840-1912)

    Alexandra Grippenberg (1857-1913)

    K.J. Gummerus (1840-1898)

    Sofia Theolinden Hahnsson (1838-1919)

    Pretari Hannikainen

    Beatrice Harraden

    Alfred von Hedenstrom

    Helvi Herlevi (1898-1927)

    Kaarle August Hilden

    Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836-1916)

    Augusti Hogmen

    Sulo M. Hytonen

    Alfred Emil Ingman (1860-1917)

    Kaapro Jaaskelainen

    Evald Ferdinand Jahnsson (1844-1897)

    Kristofer Janson

    Lydia Jannsen

    Arvid Jarnefelt (1861-1932)

    Kirjala Joho (1878-1919)

    Valter Juva (1865-1922)

    Uuno Kaslas (1901-1933)

    Vaino Kataja (1867-1914)

    Kauppis-Heikki (1862-1920)

    Anni Kepplerus (1849-1899)

    Robert Kiljander (1848-1924)

    Hilja Kilpi (1844-1927)

    Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872)

    V.a. Koskenniemii

    Aarni Kouta (1884-1924)

    Kaarlo Kramsun (1855-1895)

    Julius Krohn (1835-1888)

    Matti Kurikka (1863-1915)

    Eduard Laboulaye (1811-1883)

    Osmo Lajiila

    Maiju Lassila (1868-1918)

    Joel Lehtonen (1881-1934)

    Eino Leino (1878-1926)

    Kasimir Leino (1866-1919)

    Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (1833-1908)

    Jonas Lie

    Johanna Linnankoski (1869-1913)

    Stefan Lofving

    Elias Lonnrot (1802-1884)

    Antii Makinen (1857-1936)

    Aino Malmberg (1865-1933)

    Enenie Marlitt

    Gustaf Henrik Mellin

    E. Nervander

    Alli Nissinen (1866-1926)

    Hanna Ongelin (1848-1893)

    Pietari Paivarinta (1827-1913)

    Teuvo Pakkala (1862-1925)

    Rietrik Polen (1823-1884)

    Elise Polko (1822-1899)

    Anders Ramsay (1832-1910)

    Mayne Reid (1818-1883)

    Joho Reijonen (1855-1924)

    Fritz Reuter (1810-1874)

    Mathilda Roos (1852-1908)

    Tekla Roschier (1870-1928)

    Auringon Noristesse

    Fredricka Runeberg (1867-1879)

    Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877)

    Viktor Rydberg

    Marja Salmela (1875-1924)

    Gustav Schroder (1824-1912)

    Juhani Siljo (1888-1918)

    Eero Sissala

    Wilho Soini

    Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928)

    Samuli Suomalainen

    Bertha Von Suttner (1843-1914)

    Kunno a. Talvioja (1865-1933)

    Karl August Tavastetjerna (1860-1898)

    Kaarlo Hemmo Tiihonen

    Otto Tiuppa

    Zacharias Topelius (1819-1898)

    J. Waananen

    Saara Wacklin

    Josef Julius Wecksell (1838-1907)

    Kyosti Wilkuna (1879-1922)

    Elviira Wilman-Floranta (1875-1927)

    Yrjo Sakari Yryo-Koskinen (1830-1903)

    Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848)


    French


    Medieval and Renaissance French Literature


    Collections, Criticism, Periodicals, and Books about the French Language


    Anonymous


    Edmond About (1828-1885)


    Amadee Achard


    Paul Adam


    Lucie des Ages


    Jean Aicard


    Gustave Aimard


    Alphonse Allais


    Madame Louise d'Alq


    Claude Anet


    A. Antoine (1776-1836)


    Guillaume Apollinaire (1898-1902)


    Henri Ardel


    Alfred Assollant (1827-1886)


    Marie-Catherine Barrone d'Aulnoy (1651?-1705)


    Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889)


    Raymond Auzias-Turenne


    Theodore Aynard


    Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

    about the Human Comedie about Balzac

    Theodore de Banville (1823-1891)


    Henri Barbusse (1874-1935)


    Maurice Barres


    Marie Bashkirtseff


    Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)


    Rene Bazin (1853-1932)


    Pierre-Augustin Caropn de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), bio at Wikipedia


    H. Beauregard (Canadian)


    Hilaire Belloc


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


    Emile Bergerat


    Henri Bergson


    Hector Berlioz


    Charles de Bernard (1804-1850)


    Hector Bernier


    Joseph Bertrand (1799-1854)


    Lucien Biart


    Georges Bizet


    Leon Boillot


    Fortune de Boisgobey (1821-1891)


    Boileau (1636-1711)


    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Oeuvres de Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Pierre-Marie-Joseph Bonnefoux


    Louis Antoine de Bougainville


    Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant


    J.N. Bouilly


    Paul Bourget (1852-1935)


    Guyon Guerin de Bouscal (?-1657)


    Alexis Bouvier (1836-1892


    Rene Boylesve


    Brillat-Savarin


    Sebastian Brant (1458-1521)


    David Brossard


    Auguste Brougnes


    G. Bruno


    Ch. Buet


    Berthe de Buxy (1863-1921)


    Ernest Capendu (1826-1868)


    Eugene Cardeuc


    Madame Z. Carraud


    J.-B. Caouette


    Jean Castel


    Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)


    Guy Chantepleure


    Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805)


    Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand


    Henri de la Chaume


    H. de Chavannes de la Giraudiere


    Eugene Chavette (1827-1902)


    Andre Chenier


    Victor Cherbuliez (1829-1899)


    Emile Chevalier


    Albert Cim (Cimochowski) (1845-1924)


    Jules Claretie (1840-1913)


    Louise Colet


    Marie-Aimery de Cominges (AKA Ginko et Biloba)


    Mercier de Compiegne


    Auguste Comte (1798-1857) brief bio in Wikipedia


    Laure Conan (1845-1924)


    Benjamin Constant (1767-1840)


    Francois Coppee (1842-1908)


    Edouard Corbiere (1793-1875)


    Tristan Corbiere


    Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)


    Madame Cottin (1770-1807)


    Henri de Croy


    Berenger de la Tour d'Albenas


    Georges Darien


    Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)


    Ernest Daudet


    H. de la Bauchere


    M.E.J. Delecluze


    M. Delly


    Albert Delpit


    M.E. de la Coste


    Le Comte de Marsey


    Joseph de Maistre


    Jacques de Morgan


    Comtesse de Noailles


    Rene Descartes


    R.-L. Desdunes


    Nicolas-Marc (Le Sieur) Desfontaines (?-1652)


    Fernand Desnoyer


    Madame de Souza


    Denis Diderot (1713-1784)


    Dorothee Duchesse de Dino (1793-1862)


    Ernest Doin (1809-1891)


    Roger Dombre


    Gustave Droz (1832-1895)


    Viollet le Duc


    Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870)

    Works in English translation Works in French


    Alexandre Dumas, fils

    Works in English translation Works in French


    Madame Dura


    Charles des Ecores


    Erckmann-Chatrian (1822-1899)


    Fagan (1702-1755)


    G. le Faure et H. de Graffigny


    Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon (1651-1715)


    Octave Feuillet (1821-1890)


    Paul Feval (1816-1887)


    Raymond-Aymery-Philippe-Joseph de Montesquiou, duc de Fezensac (1784-1867)


    Joseph Fievee


    Paul Flat


    Gustave Flaubert (1804-1876)

    about Flaubert


    Dolent Fortune


    Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron (1706-1760)


    Victor Fourbel


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


    Hector France (1837-1908)


    Jacques Fricasse

    Louise Fusil


    Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)


    Ro. Garnier


    Jules de Gastyne (1847-1920)


    Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)


    Judith Gauthier


    Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)


    Sophie Gay


    Andre Gill (1840-1885)


    P. de la Gironiere


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


    Charles Gounod


    Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915)


    Henry Greville


    Francois Guizot (1787-1874)

  • History of France

  • M. Guizot


    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)


    Le Comte de Villiers d'Isle-Adam (1838-1889)


    E.M. Itard


    Francis Jammes (1868-1938)


    Jules Janin


    Alfred Jarry


    Tristan Klingsor


    Charles Paul de Kock


    Barbara Juliane, Freifau von Krudener (1764-1824)


    Jean de la Bruyere


    Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693)


    La Fontaine (1621-1695)


    Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest (1853-1902)


    F. Laharpe


    Olivier de La Marche


    Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)


    Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864)


    Gabriel de la Landelle


    Leonce de Larmandie


    Marquse de la Tour du Pin


    Jean-Baptiste Mosneron de Launay


    Le Comte de Lautreamont (1846-1870)


    Gaston Lavalley


    Emile de Laveleye


    Georgette Leblanc


    Maurice Leblanc


    Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)


    Jules Lemaitre


    Camille Lemonnier


    Andre Lemoyne (1822-1907)


    L. Pamphile Lenay (Canadian)


    Madame Leprohon (Canadian)


    Jules Lermina (1839-1915)


    Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)


    Marc Lescarbot


    Maurice Level


    Eliphas Levi


    Pierre Loti (1850-1923)


    Eugene Loudun


    Pierre Louys (1870-1925)


    Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)


    Hector Malot (1830-1907)


    Auguste Maquet (1813-1886)


    Jeanne Marcel


    Paul Margueritte (1860-1918)


    Pierre Calet Chamlain de Marivaux (1688-1763)


    Raoul Marquis (AKA Henry de Graffigny) (1863-1934)


    Mademoiselle Mars (1779-1847) [de la Comedie Francaise]


    d'Auvergne Martial (? - 1508)


    M. Maryan (Marie Rosalie Viginie Cadiou) (1847-1927)


    Philippe de Masa (1831-1911)


    Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)


    C. Meillac


    M. et Mme. Mercier-Thoinnet


    Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)


    Stuart Merrill, American poet who wrote primarily in French (1863-1915)


    Jean de Meung


    J. Michelet


    M. Michelet


    Honore-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791


    Octave Mirbeau


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

    about Moliere

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)


    Le Comte Charles de Montblanc


    Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)


    Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832)


    Henri Murger


    Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)



     

    Paul de Musset (1804-1880)


    Ernest Myrand


    Gerard de Nerval


    Nicholas Francois de Neufchateau


    Pierre Nicole


    Charles Nodier (1780-1844)


    G. le Notre (1855-1935)


    Ph. Nournay


    Georges Ohnet (1848-1918)


    Evariste Parny (1753-1814)


    Isaac de La Peyrere (1594-1676)


    Charles Perrault (1628-1703)


    Edmond Perrier


    Christine de Pisan


    Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)


    L.A. Pitou


    Claude de la Poege


    Abbe Prevost (1697-1763)


    Madame E. de Pressense (1826-1901)


    Marcell Proust (1871-1922)


    Sully Prudhomme


    Antoine Quartier


    Marie Quinton


    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)


    Jules Renard


    Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806)


    Adolphe Rette


    Arthur Rimbaud


    Maximlien Robespierre (1758-1794)


    Mlle. E. Roche


    Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)


    J.-H. Rosny


    Edmond Rostand (1869-1918)


    Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)


    Raymond Roussel


    Lyon des Roys


    Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)


    J.B.H. de Saint Pierre


    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)

  • Portraits Litteraires

  • Ida Saint-Elme (1788-1845)


    Camille Saint-Saens


    Pierre Sale (1856?-1921?)


    Albert-Henri de Sallengre (1694-1723)


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

    Books in English

    Books by George Sand Books about George Sand

    Books in French

    Books by George Sand Books About George Sand

    Maurice Sand (son of George Sand) (1828-1889)


    Jules Sandeau


    Victorien Sardou (1831-1908)


    Paul Scaron (1610-1660)


    Etienne Pivert de Seancour (1770-1846)


    Paul Sebillot (1846-1918)


    Charles Secretan (1815-1895)


    M. le General Comte de Segur


    La Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)


    Sophie de Senneterre, Madame de Renneville (1772-1822)


    William Shakespeare in French, translated by M. Guizot


    Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)


    Madame Andree Sisson (1859-1914) (AKA Roger Dombre)


    Emile Souvestre (1806-1854)


    Madame la Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)


    Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783-1842)


    Daniel Stern (pseudonym of Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicometesse de Flavigny) (1805-1876)


    Eugene Sue (1804-1857)


    Prince de Talleyrand


    Jules Paul Tardival (1851-1905) (Canadian)


    Jules Tellier


    Pierre Alexis (Le Vicomte) Ponson du Terrail


    Andre Theuriet (1833-1907)


    Leon de Tinseau (1844-1921)


    Victor Tissot (1845-1917)


    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) brief bio at Wikipedia


    Gustave Toudouze (1847-1904)


    Charls Turgeon (1855-1934)


    Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot


    Mario Uchard


    Louis Ulbach (1822-1889)


    Octave Uzanne (1852-1931)


    Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549) = La Reine Margot in the Dumas novel with that title volume 1, volume 2


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


    Albert Vandal (1853-1910)


    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)


    Francois Villon (1431-1463?)


    Denon Vivant (1747-1825)


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


    Marguerite-Josephine Weimer


    Wilhelmine, Margravine, consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth (1709-1758)


    Pierre Zaccone (1817-1895)


    Emile Zola (1840-1902)

    About Emile Zola:

     

    German and Austrian


    Anonymous

    Collections and Criticism

  • 500 Ratsel und Ratselscherze fur Jung und alt edited by Jos. Frick
  • An Anthology of German Literature edited by Calvin Thomas
  • A Book of German Lyrics, in German, edited by Frederick Burns
  • Deutsche Literaturgeschichte by Alfred Henschke
  • Deutsche Lyrik seit Liliencron edited by Hans Bethge
  • Estnische Marchen edited by Friedrich Kreutzwals
  • Folk-Lore and Legends -- Germany
  • Gems (?) of German Thought compiled by William Archer, 1917
  • 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
  • volume 20 -- Wassermann, Kellermann, Halbe, Hofmansthal, Schnitzler, Wedekind, Hardt
  • 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
  • Tales from the German translated by John Oxenford and C.a. Feiling, 1844
  • Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 by Edward Ziegler Davis
  • Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Brain

  • Willibald Alexis (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)


    Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889)


    Ernst Arndt (1769-1860)


    Margaret Arndt


    Bertold Auerbach


    Hugo Ball (1886-1927)


    August Bebel (1840-1913)


    Ludwig Bechstein


    Eduard Bernstein


    Waldemar Bonsels


    Ida Boy-Ed (1852-1928)


    Sebastian Brant (1458-1521)


    Lily Braun


    Clemens Brentano (1778-1842)


    A.V. Brochow


    Georg Buchner (1813-1837)


    Ludwig Buchner


    Wilhelm Busch


    A. Buttner


    Adelbert Cammerer


    Adelbert von Chamisso


    Felix Dahn (1834-1912)


    Udo Dammer


    Dante (1265-1321) in German Translation

  • Die Goetliche Komoedie

  • Max Dauthendey


    Georg Ebers, in English (1837-1898)


    Queen Elisabeth of Roumania (Carmen Sylva)


    George Engel


    Frederick Engels (1820-1895), bio at Wikipedia


    Otto Ernst (1862-1926)


    Karl Ettlinger (1882-1939)


    Johann Gottlieb Fichte


    Theodore Fontane


    Fredrich de la Motte-Fouque


    Ida Frohnmeyer


    Emil Frommel (1828-1896)


    Christian Gellert (1715-1769)


    Friedrich Gerstacker


    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

    Die Aufgeregten, play
    Autobiography, in English
    Belagerung von Mainz
    Briefe aus der Sweiz
    Briefe Schillers und Goethes an A.W. Schlegel, 1846
    Egmont, a tragedy in five acts Faust Die Geschwister
    Goetz von Berlichingen
    Hermann and Dorothea Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Anna Swanwick
    Iphigenie in Tauris, in German

    Italienische Reise

    Kampagne in Frankreich
    Die Laune des Verliebten
    De Leiden des Jungen Werther or The Sorrows of Young Werther Die Mitschuldigen
    Die Naturliche Tocher
    Novelle, in German
    Poems, translated to English by Edgar Alfred Bowring
    Prometheus, play
    Reineke Fuchs
    Roemische Elegien Satyros, in German
    Torquato Tasso, play, in German

    Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
    Venetische Epigramme
    Wahlverwandschaften
    West-oestlicher Divan
    Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, in German

    Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, in German about Goethe


    Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (1871-1935) (AKA Parabellum)


    Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), bio at Wikipedia


    Augusta Groner (1850-1929)


    Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), bio at Wikipedia


    Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall


    Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), bio at Wikipedia


    Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)


    J.C. Heer


    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


    Hermann Heiberg (1840-1910)


    W. Heimburg (1850-1912)


    Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)


    Rudolf Herzog


    Paul Heyse (1830-1914)


    Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)


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


    Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894)


    Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)


    Alexander von Humboldt


    August Wilhelm Iffland (1759-1814) bio at Wikipedia


    Franz Kafka (1883-1924), bio at Wikipedia


    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), bio at Wikipedia


    Gottfried Keller (1819-1890)


    Georg Kershenstein


    Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)


    Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831)


    Leopold Kompert


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


    Dorothea von Kurland


    Gottfried Leibniz 1646-1716), bio at Wikipedia


    Jacob Lenz (1751-1792)


    Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)


    Otto Zur Linde


    Alexander Lipschultz


    Hermann Lons (1866-1914)


    Martin Luther (1483-1546)


    Franziska Mann


    Heinrich Masnn


    Karl Marx (1818-1883), bio at Wikipedia


    Erich von Mendelssohn


    Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898)


    Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932)


    Eduard Moerike (1804-1875)


    Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)


    Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)


    Louise Muhlbach (1814-1873)


    F. Max Muller


    Johann Karl August Musaus (1735-1787)


    Friedrich Nietzsche


    Max Nordau (1849-1923)


    Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772-1801)


    Jean Paul (1763-1825)


    Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910)


    Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836)



     

    Rudolph Erich Raspe


    Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), bio at Wikipedia


    Christian Reuter


    Emmy von Rhoden (1829-1885)


    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)


    Friedrich Ruckert (1788-1866)


    Wilhelm Ruland


    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895)


    Hugo Salus (1866-1929)


    Agnes Sapper


    Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826-1886)


    Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)


    August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)


    Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)


    Arthur Schopenauer


    Adolf Schwayer


    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (in German translation)


    Richard Showronnek


    Johanna Spyri


    Rudolf Steiner


    Heinrich Steinhausen


    Sigmund Stern


    Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868)


    Theodore Storm (1817-1888)


    Clara Sudermann


    Gerard van Swieten


    Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853)


    Georg Trakl


    Goswin Uphues


    Carl Franz van der Velde (1779-1824)


    Heinrich Vogeler


    Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen [AKA "The Red Baron"]


    Richard Wagner


    Robert Walser


    Jacob Wassermann (1873-1934)


    Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)


    Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)


    Fedor von Zobeltitz


    Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771-1848)


    Greek



     

    Collections and Criticism


    Mythology and Legends


    Aeschylus


    Anacreon


    Apollonius of Rhodes, third century BC


    Aristophanes


    Aristotle


    Konstantinos Christomanos (1867-1911)


    Christos Christovasilis (1862?-1937)


    Demosthenes


    Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos (1864-1922)


    Argyris Eftaliotis (1849-1923)


    Epictetus


    Euripides (480-406 BC)


    Hesiod


    Homer (see also, Hesiod for Homerica)


    Andreas Karkavitsas (1865-1922)


    Ioannis Kondylakis (1861-1920)


    Kostas Krystallis (1868-1894)


    Longus


    Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-180)


    Lycias


    Pavlos Nirvanas (1866-1937)


    Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851-1911)


    Pindar


    Plato, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett

    by unknown imitators of Plato

    Plutarch


    Quintus of Smyrna


    Emmanuel Rhoides (1835-1904)


    Sappho


    Sophocles


    Theocritus


    Aristotelis Valaoritis (1824-1879)


    Demetrios Vikelas (1835-1908)


    Ioannis Vilaris (1771-1823)


    Xenophon


    Hawaiian



     


    Hungarian



     

    Maurice Jokai (1825-1904)

    Kalman Mikszath (1847-1910)


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    Anonymous

    Jon Olafsson (1850-1916)

    Magnus Grunsson (1825-1860)

    Ingimundur Sveinsson (1873-1926)

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    Indian


    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

    Hinduism

    Buddhism


    International


    Italian


    Collections and Criticism and Anonymous


    Giusseppe Cesare Abba


    Camillo Agrippa (16th century)


    Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803)


    Gabriele D'Annunzio


    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

  • In Italian, La Divina Commedia
  • 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
  • In German translation, Die Goetliche Komoedie
  • Il Convivo: The Banquet, translated by Elizabeth Sayer
  • about Dante
  • Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler
  • Dante: The Central Man of All the World by John Slattery
  • Il Comento Alla Divina Commedia e gli Altri Scritti Intorno a Dante by Boccaccio

  • Jacopo Alighieri (14th century)


    Edmondo de Amicis


    Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)


    Cletto Arrighi


    Avancinio Avancini


    Cesare Balbo (1789-1853)


    I. Bambini


    Eugenio Barbarich


    Anton Giulio Barrili (1836-1908)


    Giambattista Basile


    Ambrogio Bazzero


    Giambattista Bazzoni


    Giovanni Berchet


    Vittorio Bersezio


    Paolo Bettoni


    Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1350)


    Alberto Boccardi


    Arrigo Boito


    Giordano Bruno


    Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1567)


    E.A. Butti


    Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)


    Cesare Cantu (1804-1895)


    Luigi Capuana


    Jacques Casanova de Seingault (1725-1798)


    Erico Castelnuovo (1839-1915)


    Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380


    Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)


    Napoleone Colajanni (1847-1921)


    La Marchesa Colombi


    Cordelia


    Lewis Cornaro (1475-1566)


    Federico De Roberto (1861-1927)


    Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860-1934)


    Salvatore Farina


    Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911)


    Ferdinando Fontana (1850-1919)


    F. Frezzi


    Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)


    Anna Vertua Gentile


    A. Ghislanzoni


    Giusseppe Giacosa (1847-1906)


    Carlo Gozzi


    Augusto Graziani


    Luigi Gualdo


    Guelfo Guelfi


    F.D. Guerrazzi


    Tommasina Guidi


    Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729)


    Carolina Inverizio


    Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306)


    Giacomo Leopardi


    Gian Pietro Lucini (1867-1914)


    Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)


    Emilio de Marchi


    F.T. Marinetti


    Alberto Mario (1825-1883)


    Memini


    Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)


    Camillo Agrippa Milanese


    Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola (1470-1533)


    Cesare Monteverde


    Virginia Mulazzi


    Neera (1846-1918)


    Gaetano Negri


    Alfredo Oriani


    Silvio Pellico


    Emma Perodi (1850-1918)


    Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)


    Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina (1815-1890)


    Giulio Piccini


    Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), bio at Wikipedia


    Giambattista della Porta (1535? - 1615)


    Ernesto Pozzi (1843 - ?)


    Emilio Praga (1839-1875)


    Mario Rapisardi


    F. de Roberto


    Giuseppe Rovani (1818-1874)


    Gerolamo Rovetta (1854-1910)


    Emilio Salgari


    Gaetano Sangiorgio


    Gaetano Sanvittore


    Matilde Serao


    Ettore Socci


    Bruno Sperani (1839-1923)


    I.U. Tarchetti


    Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)


    Enrico Treitschke


    Paolo Valera


    Giorgio Vasari


    Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)


    Luciano Zuccoli (1868-1929)


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    Lucius Apuleius


    Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor


    Ausonius


    Cassiodorus


    Catullus


    Julius Caesar


    Cicero


    Cassius Dio


    Aulus Gellius


    Horace


    Livy


    Longinus


    Marcus Annaeus Lucanus


    Titus Lucretius Carus


    Thomas Macaulay, translator to English


    Nepos


    Ovid


    A. Persius Flaccus


    Petronius Arbiter


    Phaedrus


    Plautus


    Pliny the Younger


    Sextus Propertius


    Prudentius


    M. Fabius Quintilianus


    Sallust


    L. Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)


    Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus


    Tacitus


    Terence


    Tibullus


    Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC)


    Virgil (70-19 BC)


    Lithuanian

    Eliza Orzeszkowa


    Mexican

    Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834-1893)


    Frances Calderon de la Barca


    Native American


    New Zealand


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    Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

    Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845)

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    Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)


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    Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)


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    As Farpas: Cronica Mensal da Politica, Das Letras e dos Costumes, by Ramalho Ortigao and Eca de Queiroz

    Nocoloa Tolentino de Almeida (1740-1811)

    Guilherme d'Azevedo

    Goncalo Anes Bandarra (1500-1556

    Alberto Braga

    Theophilo Braga

    Camillo Castello Branco

    Raul Brandao

    Antonio Feliciano de Castilho

    Urbano de Castro

    F. Adolpho Coelho

    Trindade Coelho (1861-1908)

    Julio Diniz (1839-1871) ( = Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho)

    Elsie Spicer Eells

    Florabella Espanca

    Antonio Feijo

    Francisco de Paula de Figueiredo

    Faustino da Fonseca

    Mello Freitas

    Duarte Galvao

    Almeida Garrett (1799-1854)

    Augusta Gil

    Tomas Antonio Gonzaga (1744-1810?)

    Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877)

    Guerra Junqueiro(1850-1923)

    Gomes Leal

    Jose da Silva Mendes Leal

    Magalhaes Lina

    Fernao Lopes

    Francisco Luiz Coritinho de Miranda

    Antonio Nobre (1867-1900)

    Claudio Jose Nunes

    Bulhao Pato

    Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

    Ruy de Pina

    Serpa Pinto

    Jose Mario Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900)

    Anthero de Quental

    Francisco de Souza

    Gil Vicente


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    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


    Don Juan Ruiz de Alarcon


    Don Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891)


    Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901)


    Agustin Alvarez


    Jose Alvarez


    Jose Campo-Arana


    Jaime Balmes


    Pio Baroja


    Emilia Pardo Bazan (1852-1921)


    Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)



    Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870)


    Jacinto Benavente


    Juan de Betanzos (? - 1576)


    Don Cosme Blasco


    Carlos-Octavio Bunge


    Adolpho Caminha


    Madame P. Caro


    Miguel Ramos Carrion


    Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)


    Pedro de Cieza de Leon (1518-1554)


    P. Luis Colonna


    Rafael Delgado


    Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1492-1585)


    Enrique Perez Escrich (1829-(1897)


    Serafin Estebanez Calderon (1799-1867)


    D. Tomas Falkner (1707-1784)


    Manuel Fernandez y Gonzalez (1821-1888)


    Octavio Feuillet


    B. Perez Galdos (1843-1920)


    D. Juan de Garay


    Antonio Garcia Gutierrez (1813-1884)


    Manuel Eduardo de Gorostize


    Luis Veliz de Guevara


    Amadeo Guillemin


    Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch (1806-1880)


    Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877)


    Jose Hernandez


    Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928)


    Tomas de Iriarte (1750-1791)


    Mariano Jose de Larra


    Carlos Alberto Leumann


    Lucio V. Lopez (1848-1894)


    Pedro Lozano (1697-1752)


    Jose Marti


    Fray Francisco Morillo


    Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Nouy (1854-1915)


    Carlos Maria Ocanto


    Jose Maria de Pereda (1833-1906)


    Jacinto Octavio Picon


    Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish translation


    Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871)


    Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)


    Horacio Quiroga


    Eliseo Reclus (1830-1905)


    Jose Enrique Rodo


    Juan Ruiz


    Eulogio Florentino Sanz (1822-1881)


    Eugenio Scribe (1791-1861)


    Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio (1799?-1835)


    Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca


    Armando Palacio Valdes (1853-1938)


    Cecilia Valdes


    Juan Valera (1824-1905)


    Enrique de Vedia (1796 - 1863?)


    D. Basilio Villarino (1741-1785)


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    Books in the Swedish Language

    Collections

    Ernst Ahlgren (1850-1888)

    Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866)

    Dan Andersson (1888-1920)

    Hjahmar Bergman (1883-1931)

    Frederika Bremer

    Waldemar Bulow (1864-1934)

    Minna Canth (1844-1897)

    Per Teodor Cleve (1840-1905)

    Laura Fitingoff (1848-1908)

    F. Franson

    Frank Heller

    Gustav Hellstrom

    Ernst Larsson

    Axel Ludegard (1861-1930)

    Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877)

    Victor Rydberg (1828 -1895)

    Frans von Scheele (1853-1931)

    Hjalmar Soderberg

    Daniel Sten (1846-1930)

    Andrew Stomberg

    Sigge Stromberg

    August Strindberg

    Esias Tegner (1782-1846)

    Zacharias Topellius

    Josef Julius Wecksell (1838-1907)

    Knut Wicksell (1851-1926

    Eva Wistrom (1832-1901)

    Hasse Zetterstrom

    Books Translated from Swedish to English

    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

    Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales collected by Cyrus Adler and Allan Ramsay

    Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi




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