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Der Goldene Topf
By E. T. A. Hoffmann
On Ascension Day in Dresden the clumsy student Anselmus upsets an old apple woman's basket, and soon after hears three little green-gold snakes singing in an elder bush. Hired to copy manuscripts for a strange archivist, he is torn between the everyday world, a girl with plans for him, and a realm of magic. Hoffmann's fairy tale of modern times, told in twelve night watches.
12 chapters · About 129 minutes of published text
Der Golem
By Gustav Meyrink
A narrator drifts into a dream in which he is Athanasius Pernath, a gem carver in the old Jewish ghetto of Prague who has lost his memory. A mysterious stranger, an old book and the legend of the Golem, said to reappear every thirty-three years, draw him into the secrets of the crooked lanes around him. A dreamlike mystical novel and a classic of fantastic literature.
20 chapters · About 327 minutes of published text
Der kleine Herr Friedemann: Novellen
By Thomas Mann
Six early stories by Thomas Mann. A hunchbacked man who has built a careful, quiet life is shaken by a beautiful woman; a dilettante tells how he wasted his gifts; others meet death, disappointment and cruelty. Sharp, ironic studies of outsiders, artists and people who do not fit.
6 chapters · About 143 minutes of published text
Der Nachsommer
By Adalbert Stifter
Heinrich Drendorf, son of a Viennese merchant, takes to the mountains to study nature and, seeking shelter from a storm that never comes, finds a house covered in roses. Over many summers its owner, an old gentleman, guides his education in science, art and craft, and a slow, quiet love grows. Stifter's long, calm novel of a life shaped by beauty and patience.
17 chapters · About 1080 minutes of published text
Der Prozess: Roman
By Franz Kafka
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday the bank official Josef K. is arrested, though no one will tell him for what. Left free to go about his life, he is drawn ever deeper into a court that meets in attics and back rooms and seems to be everywhere. Kafka's unfinished novel of guilt, power and an accusation that cannot be answered.
10 chapters · About 321 minutes of published text
Der Tod in Venedig
By Thomas Mann
Gustav von Aschenbach, a celebrated writer in Munich, gives in to a sudden longing to travel and goes to Venice. At his hotel on the Lido he becomes fascinated by a beautiful Polish boy, while rumours of sickness spread through the city. A short, dense novella about art, discipline and desire.
5 chapters · About 108 minutes of published text
Der Untertan
By Heinrich Mann
Der Untertan is one of the best known novels of German author Heinrich Mann. The title character, Diederich Hessling, a dedicated 'Untertan' in the sense of a person subservient to a monarch or prince, is an immoral man who is meant to serve as an allegory of both the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and German society of his time.
6 chapters · About 569 minutes of published text
Der Weihnachtsabend: Eine Geistergeschichte
By Charles Dickens (translated by Julius Seybt)
On Christmas Eve the miser Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead partner and then by three spirits who show him Christmases past, present and yet to come. Dickens's ghost story in an early German translation by Julius Seybt.
5 chapters · About 118 minutes of published text
Deseti brat: Izvirni roman
By Josip Jurčič
The first novel written in Slovene, set among the manors, villages and woods of Lower Carniola. The student Lovro Kvas comes to the manor of Slemenice as tutor and falls in love with Manica, the squire's daughter, while a strange wanderer known as the tenth brother, the outcast of folk belief, carries a secret that binds the families around him together.
25 chapters · About 294 minutes of published text
Desperate Remedies
By Thomas Hardy
Desperate Remedies is the first published novel by English author Thomas Hardy. It is a sensation novel because it contains themes of bigamy, murder, illegitimacy, blackmail, and impersonation. It was released anonymously by Tinsley Brothers in 1871.
21 chapters · About 609 minutes of published text
Det går an
By C. J. L. Almqvist
On a steamboat leaving Stockholm, a young sergeant falls into conversation with Sara Videbeck, a glazier's daughter travelling home to Lidköping, and they journey on together across lakes and country inns. Almqvist's short novel of 1839 caused a scandal, because Sara has her own firm ideas about love, independence and what marriage takes from a woman.
8 chapters · About 161 minutes of published text
Deutsche Märchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm
By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
A popular selection of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales in their own German, from Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Snow White to Rumpelstiltskin and the Bremen Town Musicians. A few tales keep their Low German dialect. About sixty stories of witches, clever servants, talking animals and lucky fools.
61 chapters · About 387 minutes of published text
Dewajtis
By Maria Rodziewiczówna
Marek Czertwan, a dutiful young Samogitian, is left by his father's death to manage the neglected estate of his missing friend Kazimierz Orwid, while his stepmother's family drains his strength. Rodziewiczówna's prize-winning novel of 1889 takes its name from an ancient oak beside the ruins of a Lithuanian stronghold, a symbol of endurance and faith to old ways.
12 chapters · About 307 minutes of published text
Diamantstad
By Herman Heijermans
Eli comes back from years at sea to Amsterdam's Jewish quarter, where he grew up among the diamond cutters and polishers. Heijermans paints the crowded streets, the workshops and the households that live by the trade's booms and slumps.
16 chapters · About 323 minutes of published text
Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer
By Waldemar Bonsels
Young Maja, a bee who will not stay in the hive, flies out alone to see the world. Among beetles, spiders, dragonflies and grasshoppers she has adventures, makes friends and meets real danger, until she learns of a threat to her own people. The classic German children's book about curiosity and courage.
17 chapters · About 159 minutes of published text
Die Elixiere des Teufels: Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines Kapuziners
By E. T. A. Hoffmann
Brother Medardus, a gifted Capuchin preacher, tastes a forbidden elixir said to come from the devil's temptation of Saint Anthony. He leaves the monastery and falls into a nightmare of crimes, mistaken identities and a double who seems to live out his sins. Told as his own confession, it is one of the great Gothic novels in German.
7 chapters · About 466 minutes of published text
Die Liebe der Erika Ewald: Novellen
By Stefan Zweig
Four early stories by Stefan Zweig. In the title story a shy young piano teacher in Vienna is courted by a violinist and must decide what she wants from love; the others turn to devotion, longing and the wonders of faith and painting. Intense, lyrical studies of feeling at its first awakening.
4 chapters · About 191 minutes of published text
Die Verwandlung
By Franz Kafka
Gregor Samsa, a hard-working travelling salesman, wakes one morning to find he has become an enormous insect. In three parts the novella follows his family as shock turns to duty and duty to resentment. A short, precise and strangely funny study of what a person is worth to those who depend on him.
3 chapters · About 84 minutes of published text
Die Wahlverwandtschaften
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eduard and Charlotte, married at last after earlier marriages to others, live calmly on their country estate until they invite two guests: Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's young niece Ottilie. Like chemical elements that leave old bonds for new ones, the four are drawn into new attractions. Goethe's cool and unsettling novel about marriage and passion.
36 chapters · About 343 minutes of published text
Diva
By José de Alencar
Diva is a novel written by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar. It was first published in 1864. Emilia is a rich and cultured girl that, with a hint of cruelty, enjoys the courtship of young men, but makes them suffer for that. In this love story between Augusto and the divine - but fatal - Emilia, the world of conventions and human relationships is portrayed as based on convenience.
23 chapters · About 146 minutes of published text
Dokter Helmond en zijn vrouw
By Jacobus Jan Cremer
Eva and August Helmond marry in the spring under a blossoming hawthorn, sure that love alone will carry them. Jacob Cremer follows the young doctor and his wife through forty-four chapters of the trials, jealousies and sorrows that test that belief.
44 chapters · About 839 minutes of published text
Doktor Nikola
By Guy Boothby (translated by Johs. Magnussen)
The mysterious Dr Nikola, with his cat and his cold charm, hires the narrator Wilfrid Bruce, a down-on-his-luck Englishman in Shanghai, to help him reach a hidden lamasery in the interior of China. There, disguised as priests, they mean to steal the secret of how to prolong life. Guy Boothby's popular adventure novel, in a Danish translation.
17 chapters · About 348 minutes of published text
Dom Casmurro
By Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro is an 1899 novel written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Like The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba, both by Machado de Assis, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of realist literature. It is written as a fictional memoir by a distrusting, jealous husband. The narrator, however, is not a reliable conveyor of the story as it is a dark comedy. Dom Casmurro is considered by critic Afrânio Coutinho "a true Brazilian masterpiece, and perhaps Brazil's greatest representative piece of writing" and "one of the best books ever written in the Portuguese language, if not the best one to date."
148 chapters · About 285 minutes of published text
Don Gonzalo González de la Gonzalera
By José María de Pereda
A village of the Spanish north is thrown into confusion by the new liberal politics and the schemes of its petty bosses. Pereda's satirical novel is a comic account of electoral intrigue, rural gossip and the collapse of the old order.
33 chapters · About 382 minutes of published text