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José María de Pereda · Spanish
Pereda’s regional novel of Cantabrian rural life, local speech, land, family, custom, and social change.
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José María de Pereda · Spanish
Pereda’s regional novel of Cantabrian rural life, local speech, land, family, custom, and social change.
Italian
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Gabriele D’Annunzio · Italian
D’Annunzio’s ambitious poetic cycle of sea, sky, earth, myth, heroism, sensation, music, and Italian modernity.
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Alphonse Daudet · French
Daudet’s autobiographical novel of childhood sensitivity, poverty, school life, Paris, family loyalty, and artistic hope.
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Théophile Gautier · French
Gautier’s provocative novel of beauty, disguise, desire, gender performance, theatre, and art for art’s sake.
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Lima Barreto · Portuguese
Lima Barreto’s political satire of parliament, ambition, patronage, journalism, marriage, and the machinery of power.
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Étienne Pivert de Senancour · French
A major French Romantic meditation on solitude, Alpine landscape, melancholy, doubt, and the restless modern self.
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Rudyard Kipling · English
Early Kipling stories of colonial India, sharp social observation, Anglo-Indian speech, ambition, loneliness, and irony.
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Washington Irving · English
A compact American tale of sleep, folklore, revolution, village memory, and the strange cost of returning home.
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Edmondo De Amicis · Italian
A vivid emigration voyage narrative of Atlantic crossing, shipboard society, class, hope, fear, and Italian diaspora.
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Henry James · English
A Venetian novella of literary obsession, private papers, manipulation, aging, and the ethics of biography.
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Rudyard Kipling · English
A bold imperial adventure about two drifters, a remote kingdom, false divinity, ambition, and catastrophic overreach.
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G. K. Chesterton · English
Father Brown solves paradoxical crimes through moral insight, comic logic, theology, disguise, and human weakness.
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Kunikida Doppo · Japanese
国木田独歩の短編。青年の会話、理想、貧しさ、食卓、近代的感傷と現実感が交差する。
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H. G. Wells · English
A foundational science-fiction novella about time travel, class, evolution, and the far future.
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Charles Lamb · English
Personal essays rich in memory, humor, London life, reading, friendship, and gentle melancholy.
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Izaak Walton · English
A pastoral classic of fishing, riverside conversation, practical lore, songs, and contemplative leisure.
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James Hogg · English
A dark Scottish classic of fanaticism, double identity, guilt, and psychological pursuit.
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Eça de Queirós · Portuguese
Uma sátira breve sobre adultério, comércio, honra burguesa e cálculo social em Lisboa.
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Théophile Gautier · French
Une nouvelle fantastique sur Pompéi, désir, vestiges antiques et apparition du passé.
Italian
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Antonio Fogazzaro · Italian
An Italian political and psychological novel about conscience, love, faith, and public life.
German
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John Bunyan · German
Eine deutsche Ausgabe der christlichen Allegorie über Pilgerschaft, Versuchung, Glauben und Erlösung.
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Zeng Pu · French
Un roman chinois de la fin des Qing sur diplomatie, élites, scandales, réforme et monde moderne.