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In der Strafkolonie ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die im Oktober 1914 entstand und 1919 veröffentlicht wurde. Einem Forschungsreisenden wird das Rechtssystem einer Strafkolonie vorgeführt. Es besteht darin, dass jeder Angeklagte unabhängig von seiner Schuld von einem Apparat in minutiösem Ablauf stundenlang gefoltert und dann getötet wird. Den Apparat beschreibt Kafka als überdimensionalen Parlograph in der Funktionsweise eines Phonographen mit vibrierender Metallplatte und Nadel. Dieser Apparat ist der Hauptgegenstand der Erzählung, er repräsentiert die Einheit von Schrift und Tod....

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Mars landing

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A series of two line poems written during the first four months of 2017.

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This is the fifth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home. (Summary written by Sarah Jennings.)...

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Adventure, Fiction

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Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg....

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Mystery

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A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago Tribune, from time of publishing)...

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Romance

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Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it with something more nearly approaching to enthusiasm than he allowed himself in reference to any other work of an author, to whom he was on the whole so unjust....

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Excerpt: Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling.

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Contents PREFACE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 LISPETH........................................................................................................................................... 5 THREE AND?AN EXTRA .......................................................................................................... 10 THROWN AWAY ............................................................................................................................ 14 MISS YOUGHAL?S SAIS............................................................................................................... 21 YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER.............................................................................................. 27 FALSE DAWN ................................................................................................................................ 31 THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES .................................................................................................... 38 CUPID?S ARROWS .........

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?Everyone asks me what I ?think? of everything,? said Spencer Brydon; ?and I make answer as I can--begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn?t matter to any of them really,? he went on, ?for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-anddeliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ?thoughts? would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.? He was talking to Miss Staverton, with whom for a couple of months now he had availed himself of every possible occasion to talk; this disposition and this resource, this comfort and support, as the situation in fact presented itself, having promptly enough taken the first place in the considerable array of rather unattenuated surprises attending his so strangely belated return to America....

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Excerpt: Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising the opportunity may, at first sight, seem....

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Excerpt: The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad.

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Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might have envied, was banging a cocoa-nut mat, chanting by way of accompaniment in a sort of cadence--...

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Excerpt: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Adam, Sheth, Enosh -- 2. Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered -- 3. Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech -- 4. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth -- 5. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras -- 6. And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah -- 7. And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim....

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Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Excerpt: Waverley or ?Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott.

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Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

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Introduction: On February the first 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha....

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Internal dialogue with a alter ego.

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The practical man boasts about women in his life. The philosopher thinks about his place in the universe. Life is senseless; it has always been like that....

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Two men on the road. Illustrated with photographs on the way to the restaurant. From the living place of the author to the place to be, and back. Title: Gift of god. You are your god....