Lord Arthur Saville is a Murderer

"Lord Arthur Saville's Crime", is a short mystery story
written by Oscar Wilde(1854-1900).
It's the story of Lord Arthur Saville, who gets his hand read by a chiromanist, who tells him that he will commit murder in the future. Lord Arthur, takes this profecy seriously and decides to postpone his soon to be marriage and commit murder...
It's a brilliant,strange, ironic story with Wilde playing a game of fate.

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Peter Schlemihl: The Shadowless Man

Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story (“Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte”) written in 1814 by Adelbert von Chamisso, is the story of a bohemian scientist called Peter Schlemihl, who sells his shadow to the Devil for a wallet always filled with money, only to wander the earth alone.
Chamisso (1781-1838), who will not only be remembered as a poet, but also as a botanist left a classic book to the German literature.

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Book Club: Three Men In A Boat

It is hard to believe, but the last, laugh out loud, novel was published in 1889. Sure there have been written many a funny and smart and elaborate stories since then, but try to take away the irony and the half-witted hero out of them, and what do you get? Jerome Jerome's book is a winner because its honesty lasts all through its pages and the reader doesn't get mixed feelings at the end, like someone had played tricks to get their attention. Enjoy this delightful journey, and of course do not forget the dog!

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Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel which rises from the mechanics of a pleasant plot to the level of great art, written from Jane Austen, a novelist with an extremely narrow focus that extends, surprisingly, into a wide range of concerns. It's a story about society,the relationships of family,the pride of a man and the prejudice of a woman. It is saturated with sarcasm, humor, romance, and thought-provoking issues of the time and Austen captures the attention of her readers with the wit, insight and well-flawn characters.

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Joyce - Dujardin; the charm of semicolon

Who was the inspiration behind James Joyce's "Ulysses"?

It was french writer Edouard Dujardin who used the stream of consciousness literaly technique and the interior monologue in his works. With the use of the semicolon mark Dujardin was able to continue his train of thought uninterruptedly. According to Joyce's confession he was particularly influenced by Dujardin's novel "Les lauriels cont coupes" (The Bays are Sere), 1887.

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"Great Expectations" is one of the most famous and much-loved novels written from Charles Dickens and is about love and rejection.This book has Dickens' brilliant use of characters and plot and offers a fascinating view about the differences in the class system in England, as well as a great sense of comedy.The novel is a fantastic read, full of romance and hope...





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