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In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does this by venturing unseen into Windsor Forest at night to trap the love-fay, Eda, who, once spellbound, must reveal all and let him remotely view Aura's activities by means of a magic mirror cut from crystal. In addition to this early form of cyberstalking, Edwy, on his night-journey into the forest gets to witness a royal procession of the Fairie Queen, followed by midnight revels of elves and spirits. What seems like a mid-summer night's dream turns into a comedy of errors...

One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. The Chronicles originally appeared in the famous Blackwood's Magazine. Mrs. Oliphant wrote prolifically in her career, and many of her main characters were independent, resourceful women. In fact, Miss Marjoribanks has been occasionally cited as the successor to Jane Austen's Emma, albeit Miss Marjoribanks is more focused, less pliable and a decidedly more strategic thinker than dear Emma.

Het verhaal van een onmogelijke liefde. Naar mijne meening is het werk 'Extaze' zeer superieur aan de vorige werken van den Heer Couperus, 'Eline Vere' en 'Noodlot'. Telkens wendt en wendt zich zijne konceptie en schriftuur en nooit kan men zeggen wat er den volgenden keer komen zal. Want wat ook na 'Noodlot', dat minder goed was dan 'Eline Vere', te verwachten ware, - zéker niet, dat de schrijver van de Observatie met éen ruk tot de Sensatie stijgen en van charmant zou worden subliem. - Lodewijk van Deyssel (1895)

Het kerstverhaal van 1845 vertaling van 'The Cricket on the Hearth'.
De mooie jonge Dot en de oude vrachtrijder John lijken gelukkig getrouwd te zijn totdat John ziet dat Dot geheime omgang heeft met een knappe jonge man. (Introductie door Marcel Coenders)

A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era.

D’amants qu’ils étaient, le Vicomte de Valmont et la Marquise de Merteuil sont restés complices dans leurs projets de liaisons et confidents dans leur correspondance, chacun préservant sa réputation aux yeux du monde : d’homme irrésistible pour l’un, de femme respectable pour l’autre.

Ils ont, cette fois-ci, jeté leur dévolu sur la Présidente de Tourvel, jeune femme vertueuse et dévote dont l’époux demeure au loin et Cécile Volanges, adolescente à peine sortie du couvent, promise au Comte de Gercourt, dont s’éprend le Chevalier Danceny.

Si, à force de manipulations, leurs projets aboutissent, la première fera la gloire de son vainqueur, la seconde, le déshonneur de son mari...

In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. This novel is regarded as "the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience in a healthy light."

Kein lebendes Wesen ist störrischer, keines will mit mehr Kunst behandelt seyn, als der Mensch; keines muß mehr geschont werden. Denn was ist thörichter, als daß man sich schämt, an Zugvieh und Hunden seinen Zorn auszulassen, der Mensch aber unter Menschen stehend am schlimmsten daran ist?

“Walthers äfventyr” (The adventures of Walther) is a series of childrens’ stories about Walther, a rather naughty six-year old boy written by Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898), a prominent 19th-century Fenno-Swedish author. The stories comprise chapters one through eight of volume four of his “Läsning för barn” (Reading for Children). They are generally seen as highly influenced by the author’s own childhood memories.