Considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, the tragedy King Lear portrays some of the darkest aspects of human nature that can be found in...
The Secret of the Night or Rouletabille and the Tsar is a 1913 mystery novel by the French writer Gaston Leroux. It is the third in his series of nove...
“Der tolle Mensch” ist der Aphorismus 125 aus dem dritten Buch der “Fröhlichen Wissenschaft” und befaßt sich mit dem Thema “Gott ist tot”. Der stilist...
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a sophisticated novell with extremely hard to comprehend philosophical ideas lying on the border of par...
Diese kleine Schrift ist eine grosse Kriegserklärung; und was das Aushorchen von Götzen anbetrifft, so sind es dies Mal keine Zeitgötzen, sondern ewig...
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was stan...
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in t...
Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautrea...
**Fathers and Sons** is a seminal Russian novel by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1862. The novel explores the growing divide between the liberal a...
'A Wasted Student' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Sack, an early expressionist writer. It follows Erich, a science student who grapples w...
This collection of short stories and novellas by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores themes of isolation, alienation, love, and the human condition. The stori...
A man contemplates suicide, weighing the pros and cons of ending his own life. He considers the arguments of those who believe that suicide is a cowar...
The protagonist is Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, a young Russian officer who is stationed in the Caucasus Mountains due to his involvement in a duel...
Lev Shestov's *All Things Are Possible* explores the nature of faith and doubt in the face of an indifferent universe. He challenges traditional phil...
In "Antichrist", Nietzsche launches a scathing critique of Christianity and its influence on Western culture. He argues that the Christian moral syste...
'The World as Will and Idea' is a seminal work of philosophy by Arthur Schopenhauer. In this book, Schopenhauer argues that the fundamental nature of...
This collection of short stories by Leonid Andreyev showcases his distinctive style of psychological realism and philosophical exploration. Known fo...
Leonid Andreyev's novella "The Dark" delves into the psychological complexities of a desperate young man seeking refuge in a brothel to evade arrest....
Là-Bas, meaning 'Down There,' is a 1896 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, delving into the dark underbelly of late 19th-century Paris. The protagonist, Je...
The Precipice is a story of romantic rivalry and the societal pressures faced by a gifted young man in 19th-century Russia. The novel explores themes...
'Beyond Good and Evil' is a philosophical treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886.
In the book, Nietzsche argues that traditional mor...
Alfred Wolfenstein's "Gottlosen Jahre" is a collection of poems that reflects the turbulent early 20th century in Germany. The poems, written in the s...
A collection of short stories by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, a Russian writer and playwright. The stories explore themes of existentialism, nihilism...
