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Garman & Worse er Alexander Kiellands forste roman, utgitt i 1880, og er av mange ansett som hans beste. Bokens handling er lagt til Kiellands hjemby Stavanger i 1870-arene (selv om byens navn aldri...

Gengangere is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, it is a scathing commentary on 19th-century...

Gildet p? Solhaug is the first publicly successful drama by Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1855 and had its premier at Det norske Theater in Bergen on 2 January 1856. The play tells the story of a...

The Mountain Wreath is a heroic poem in the form of folk drama by Petar II Petrovic Njegos. It was written at the high of the Serbian romantic movement and is now considered to be the Serbian...

The Sagas of Icelanders are prose histories mostly describing events that took place in Iceland in the 10th and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. They are focused on history,...

Grimms' fury Tales: Dual Language: (German-English)Author: Jacob GrimmPublisher: JiaHu BooksPublication Date: May 31, 2015Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

H?vam?l is presented as a single poem in the Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice...

The Vikings at Helgeland is Henrik Ibsen's seventh play and was written during 1857. The play takes place at a time in which Norwegian society was adjusting from the tradition of Old Norse Sagas to...

Hadji Murat is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy from 1896 to 1904 and published posthumously in 1912 (though not in full until 1917). It is Tolstoy's final work. The protagonist is Hadji Murat,...

Leonid Andreyev (21 August 1871 - September 12, 1919) was one of the key figures of the Russian Silver age of literature. He produced volumes of short stories before switching to play-writing later...

Hisa Marije Pomocnice (The Ward of Mary Help of Christians) is a novel by the Slovenian author Ivan Cankar. It was first published in 1904. It was translated into English in 1968 (published in 1976)...

The Histories of Herodotus is now considered as the founding work of history in Western literature. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves...

The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by...

The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by...

Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and...

How the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky. Pavel Korchagin is the novel's protagonist. He fights on the Bolsheviks' side in the Civil War (1918-1921) and is...

Discover the rich history and vibrant culture of Iceland through this bilingual, fully-glossed reader in modern Icelandic. Take a captivating language-learning journey with this comprehensive volume,...

Insurekcja is the final volume of a trilogy of works by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taken together these works describe the situation in Poland around 1794. Overall the trilogy paints a positive picture of...

The Tales of Ise is a collection of waka poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period. The current version collects 125 sections, with each combining poems and prose, giving a total...

Ivanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed in 1887. Despite the success of its first performance, the production disgusted Chekhov himself. Irritated...

Jenseits von Gut und B?se was written by Friedrich Nietzsche and first published in 1886.It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical and...

Judita is one of the most important Croatian literary works, an epic poem written by the "father of Croatian literature" Marko Marulic. Marulic's Judith has none of the decorative epithets typical of...

K rlighedens Komedie is a comedy by Henrik Ibsen. As result of being branded an "immoral" work in the press, the Christiania Theatre would not dare to stage it at first. Two students - Falk and Lind...

The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias L?nnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the...

Kalevipoeg is the Estonian national epic which are based folktales about the eponymous giant Kalevipoeg. These tales mainly interpret various natural objects and features as traces of Kalevipoeg's...

Kalila wa Dimna is the classic Arabic translation of the Panchatantra collection of animal tales. There are recorded over two hundred different versions known to exist in more than fifty languages...

Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy is a 1932 Polish bestselling novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz. Nicodemus Dyzma is a small-town man who comes to the Polish capital from the Eastern provinces in search of work...

Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad Farabi (also known in the West as Alpharabius) (c. 872 in Farab - between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus), was a renowned scientist and philosopher of...

Komediantka is a novel by Wladyslaw Reymont published in 1896. The novels centres on 22 year-old Janka who is facing a key decision: whether to accept a marriage proposal from a man she respects but...

Kongs-Emnerne is a dramatic play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.It was written in bursts during 1863, but Ibsen claims to have had sources and the idea back in 1858. A five-act play in prose...