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"Ellernklipp" (vollständiger Titel: "Ellernklipp – Nach einem alten Harzer Kirchenbuch") ist eine Novelle von Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), die 1881 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde.

"Quitt" ist ein Roman von Theodor Fontane. Das Werk entstand zwischen 1885 und April 1889. 1890 erfolgte in "Die Gartenlaube" (Nr. 1–11) der stark gekürzte und redigierte Vorabdruck. Die erste Buchausgabe erschien im November 1890 (Impressum 1891) bei der Besser’schen Buchhandlung (Wilhelm Hertz), Berlin.

"Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks)" (original: "Max und Moritz - Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen") is a German language illustrated story in verse. This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated...

Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called The Brothers, later titled Sanditon upon its first publication in 1925, and completed twelve chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because her illness prevented her from continuing.

"A Dream of Armageddon" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in 1901 in the British weekly magazine "Black and White".

Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais. « Agnès Grey » est le premier des deux romans de l'écrivain anglais Anne Brontë. Publié en décembre 1847 sous le pseudonyme d'Acton Bell, il paraît en France pour la première fois en 1859. Le roman est...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822), was a Prussian Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques...

"Niels Holgersens wunderbare Reise mit den Wildgänsen" ist der Titel eines Romans der schwedischen Schriftstellerin Selma Lagerlöf, zuerst erschienen 1906/1907. Der schwedische Originaltitel lautet "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige" ("Nils Holgerssons wunderbare...

Wolf unter Wölfen ist ein Roman von Hans Fallada aus dem Jahre 1937. Die Geschichte spielt im Inflationsjahr 1923. Der Roman wurde 1964 unter dem gleichen Titel von der DEFA unter der Regie von Hans-Joachim Kasprzik verfilmt. Bei dieser Ausgabe handelt es sich um den ersten Teil des Romans mit dem Untertitel Die Stadt und ihre Ruhelosen.

"Der Struwwelpeter" (1845) (or "Shockheaded Peter") is a German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book.

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter. He published comic illustrated cautionary tales from 1859, achieving his most notable works in the 1870s. Busch's illustrations used wood engraving, and later, zincography.

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

"The Field Bazaar" was written during an Edinburgh University fundraising event. Doyle had been requested by his university to contribute a short piece of literature for a charity magazine. In the story Watson has received a similar request and whilst he reads the letter at breakfast, Holmes...

When searching through Conan Doyle’s papers, Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of his, came across a plan for an unwritten story. As Richard Lancelyn Green notes, "there is no evidence to show that it is by [Conan Doyle] and strong internal evidence to suggest that it's not". Various authors...