The Teraura Saga
Paul of Teraura — Dima Grossman
Paul of Teraura — Chapter 1
“The Choosing.” A boy, a list of names, and two people who decided he should have a home — the opening of the grim sci-fi novel, Book One of the Teraura Saga.
Paul of Teraura — Chapter 2
“The Remote Post.” The summer Paul was six, Thomas took him east to the station — the only time. The road, the crawler, and the questions a father would not answer.
Blacksmith & Witches Classics
Chekhov — Five Complete Stories
From Selected Stories (Annotated), Classics Volume 1 — Constance Garnett’s translations.
Chekhov — The Darling
Olenka loves wholly — and disappears into whoever she loves. Complete.
Chekhov — Misery
“To whom shall I tell my grief?” The old cabman and the city that will not listen. Complete.
Chekhov — Rothschild’s Fiddle
The undertaker who counted life in losses, and the fiddle that outlived the counting. Complete.
Chekhov — The Man in a Case
Byelikov, his umbrella, and his galoshes — a whole life in a case. Complete.
Blacksmith & Witches Classics
Marcus Aurelius — Meditations, Books One to Three
From Meditations (Annotated), Classics Volume 2 — George Long’s 1862 translation.
Meditations — Book One
The emperor pays his debts: everyone he learned from, named one by one. Complete.
Meditations — Book Two
The morning resolve: expect the busybody and the ungrateful, and refuse to be surprised. Complete.
Meditations — Book Three
The short lease: life wasting daily — held close, not as gloom, but as a reason to act. Complete.
Blacksmith & Witches Classics
Plato & Machiavelli
Plato — The Apology of Socrates
The defence speech, complete, in Benjamin Jowett’s 1871 translation — from The Last Days of Socrates (Annotated), Classics Volume 4.
Machiavelli — The Prince
The Dedication and Chapters 1–3, in W. K. Marriott’s 1908 translation — from The Prince (Annotated), Classics Volume 5 — live on Lulu.
H. G. Wells — The Time Machine
Chapter 1 of the 1895 novella that invented time travel — from The Time Machine (Annotated), Classics Volume 6 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground
The opening chapter of the 1864 novella, in Constance Garnett’s 1918 translation — from Notes from Underground (Annotated), Classics Volume 7 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Jules Verne — Twenty Thousand Leagues
Part One, Chapter 1 — the sea monster of 1866 — in the classic 1873 Mercier Lewis translation, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Annotated), Classics Volume 8 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Gogol — The Overcoat
The great Petersburg tale complete, in Constance Garnett’s translation — from The Overcoat and Other Stories (Annotated), Classics Volume 9 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Prologue, sections 1–2 — Zarathustra comes down from the mountains — in Thomas Common’s classic 1909 translation, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Annotated), Classics Volume 10 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Emily Dickinson — Selected Poems
“Hope is the thing with feathers” complete — from the first editions of the 1890s — in Selected Poems (Annotated), Classics Volume 11 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Maxim Gorky — The Lower Depths
The opening of Act One — dawn in the doss-house — in Jenny Covan’s classic 1922 translation, from The Lower Depths (Annotated), Classics Volume 12 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — The Letters of Mozart
Letter 148 complete — Vienna, 9 May 1781, the walk-out from the Archbishop’s service — in Lady Wallace’s classic 1865 translation, from The Letters of Mozart (Annotated), Classics Volume 13 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Ludwig van Beethoven — Beethoven's Letters
The Heiligenstadt Testament complete — Heiligenstadt, 6 October 1802, the farewell he wrote and declined — in Lady Wallace’s classic 1866 translation, from Beethoven's Letters (Annotated), Classics Volume 14 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
Johann Nikolaus Forkel — Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art and Work
Chapter I complete — the family of Bach, six generations of Thuringian musicians — in Charles Sanford Terry’s classic 1920 translation, from Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art and Work (Annotated), Classics Volume 15 — live on Lulu. Read it free.
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