fantastische Literatur

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be ‚the earliest of the modern Dystopian, ‚ it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic …

The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world’s great writers, and his ‚War and Peace‘ has been called the greatest novel ever written. The purpose of a …

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont …

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childho …

The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth Oz book. In this story, Trot, a young girl from California, and her peg-legged sailor friend, Cap’n Bill, find themselves on a perilous voyage when a whirlpool leaves …

These stories may be looked at from two standpoints, and no doubt the standpoint the reader chooses will be dictated by personal taste and previous knowledge of the subject under discussion. They may …

In the year 18- I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L-. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a profes …

The full title of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story known as ‚King Pest‘ is King Pest: A Tale Containing an Allegory. One of Poe’s most bizarre short stories. …

Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field i …

A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, ‚Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.‘ ‚ …