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The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night
16 Volumes
translated by Richard Francis Burton
The Other Books, by Ages and Authors
(In roughly chronological order. Centuries occasionally overlap.)
Classical Antiquity
Homer (ca. 8th century BCE), translated by Samuel Butler
The Iliad (1898)
The Odyssey (1900)
Herodotus (5th century BCE), translated by George Rawlinson
The History (1858)
Lucian of Samosata (2nd century CE)
Lucian’s True History
translations by Francis Hickes (1634) and A. M. Harmon (1913)
Mediaeval Europe
The story of the men of the Red Branch of Ulster
Arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory (1902)
From the Welsh of the Llyfr Coch O Hergest (The Red Book of Hergest)
Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (1838–1845)
translated by Francis William Bourdillon (1887)
The 18th Century
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane (1715–1735)
Niels Klim’s Journey Under the Ground (1741)
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e (1763)
Vathek (1786)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
The 19th Century
Symzonia. A Voyage of Discovery (1820)
The Last Man (1826)
Jane Webb (Jane Loudon)
The Mummy! (1827)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
The Lifted Veil (1859)
How I Found Livingstone (1872)
After London (1885)
King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
She (1886)
Die Waffen nieder! (1889) Deutsch/German
Lay Down Your Arms! (English translation)
Poseidon’s Paradise. The Romance of Atlantis (1892)
The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
Travels in West Africa (unabridged edition) (1897)
Heart of Darkness (1899)
The 20th Century
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
The Last Generation (1908)
The Iron Heel (1908)
South Sea Tales (1911)
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Herland (1915)
With Her in Ourland (1916)
Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
Friend Island (1918)
The Citadel of Fear (1918–19)
The Heads of Cerberus (1919)
Living Alone (1919)
The Pellucidar Series (1914–1942)
Sir Galahad (Bertha Eckstein-Diener)
Mütter und Amazonen (1932) Deutsch/German
Conan (1932–36)
Solomon Kane (1928–32)
Kull, Bran Mak Morn and Turlogh Dubh O’Brien (1929–32)
Dark Agnes / Red Sonya (193? / 1934)
Almuric (1934)
A Gibbet Against the Sky (Poems)
A Gibbet Against the Sky Audio recordings
The 21st Century
The Green Comet Trilogy (2012–2017)
The Journey (2012) (For adult readers)
Herons and Heroines (2008–2017) (For adult readers)
Zäh und Dunkel (2020) Deutsch/German
Dark and Viscous (English translation)
Path to a True Calling (2024)
Not in the Library
Books that will not be in the public domain, and therefore not in the Dunyazad Library, for a long time to come …
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What’s new?
2024-01-06: Path to a True Calling, A-K2-C
2023-08-24: Lucian’s True History by Lucian of Samosata
2023-06-11: The process of reformatting all ePub files has been completed
2023-03-18: Living Alone by Stella Benson
2022-12-12: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
2022-11-12: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Lesage
2022-04-19: You can download a zip file with all the recordings of the A Gibbet Against the Sky collection of Robert E. Howard’s poems
2022-02-22: You can download all the books in the Library, in your preferred file format, in a single zip file
2022-01-24: How I Found Livingstone by Henry Morton Stanley
For a full list of recent updates see below
What’s next?
to be announced …
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Full list of recent updates
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2024-01-06: new book, “Path to a True Calling”, A-K2-C
2023-08-24: new book, “Lucian’s True History” by Lucian of Samosata
2023-06-11: All ePub files have now been updated, mobi files are no longer available
2023-04-26: The process of updating ePub files and removing mobi files has begun (13 books so far)
2023-03-18: new book, “Living Alone” by Stella Benson
2022-12-12: new book, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum
2022-11-12: new book, “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane” by Alain-René Lesage
2022-11-02: Hypatia calculator has moved to its own website, www.hypatia-rpn.net – see Software
2022-04-19: downloadable zip archive with the recordings of R.E. Howard’s poems
2022-03-14: four new recordings of R.E. Howard poems by Katzy_Kins
2022-02-22: new “Download the Library” page
2022-01-24: new book, “How I Found Livingstone” by Henry Morton Stanley
2021-11-28: three new recordings of R.E. Howard poems by Nina Nikolic
2021-10-18: update of the book “Herons and Heroines” by R. C. Smith to version 1.2
2021-06-17: new book, “Niels Klim’s Journey Under the Ground” by Ludvig Holberg
2021-05-03: new book, “The Mummy!” by Jane Webb
2021-03-11: new site map page, see “… Other Stuff – Site Map”
2021-02-18: A short synopsis of Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung” – in PDF format on the “… Other Stuff” page
2021-01-21: It has taken me more than a year, but I’ve finally re-recorded all the 55 Howard poems I had recorded, using a new microphone.
2021-01-01: new book, “The Pellucidar Series” (7 books in one volume) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
2020-12-01: new book, “Poseidon’s Paradise” by Elizabeth G. Birkmaier
2020-08-12: English translation “Dark and Viscous” of Mara Samsara’s book “Zäh und Dunkel”
2020-08-12: update of the book “Zäh und Dunkel” (in German) by Mara Samsara to version 1.2
2000-07-18: minor update of “The Last Man” to version 1.01
2020-07-17: new “Not in the Library” book recommendation page, see “… Other Stuff”
2020-07-14: update of the book “Zäh und Dunkel” (in German) by Mara Samsara to version 1.1
2020-04-09: new book, story “Zäh und Dunkel” (in German) by Mara Samsara
2020-04-07: fixed an error in the “character set” note in all plain text files
2020-03-27: minor updates of “King Solomon’s Mines” (to 1.02), “She” (to 1.03), and “The Heads of Cerberus” (to 1.01)
2020-03-02: new book, novella “The Lifted Veil” by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
2020-02-27: updated the “Voice Recording for Beginners” guide
2020-01-16: DTHTML tool updated to version 1.2 (see “The Dunyazad Plain Text Format” on the “… Other Stuff” page)
2020-01-11: update of “The Journey” by R.C. Smith to version 1.2
2020-01-09: new book, short story “Friend Island” by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
2019-12-16: new book, “The Citadel of Fear” by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
2019-12-07: removed link to “Free Classic Movies” on the “Other Stuff” page, because that site has been discontinued
2019-12-06: minor update of the book “Mütter und Amazonen” by Sir Galahad (Bertha Eckstein-Diener) to version 1.01
2019-11-29: minor update of R.E. Howard’s poems “A Gibbet Against the Sky” (all file formats) to version 1.07
2019-11-26: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “Shadows on the Road”
2019-11-21: the Howard poetry index page has a new address:
dunyazad-library.net/audio/howard/
2019-11-11: new book, “The Heads of Cerberus” by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
2019-11-06: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “The Ride of Falume”
2019-10-29: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “Memories”
2019-10-23: new recordings of R.E. Howard poems, “Egypt,” “A Challenge to Bast,” and “A Song of the Legions”
2019-10-21: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “Nights to Both of Us Known”
2019-10-13: new book, “Mütter und Amazonen” (in German) by Sir Galahad (Bertha Eckstein-Diener)
2019-10-09: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “Twilight on Stonehenge”
2019-10-07: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “The Ghost Kings”
2019-10-02: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “The Tempter”
2019-10-02: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “The Myth”
2019-09-05: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “The Rhyme of the Three Slavers”
2019-08-28: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “Futility”
2019-07-12: new book, “The Mabinogion” in the translation by Lady Charlotte Guest
2019-07-05: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “A Song Out of Midian”
2019-06-11: minor update of “Solomon Kane” plain text, epub and mobi files, to version 1.01b (added missing scene break symbols)
2019-06-07: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “The Witch”
2019-06-06: moved R.E. Howard recordings to new directory /audio/howard/
2019-06-04: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “Easter Island”
2019-06-04: updated the “Voice Recording for Beginners” guide
2019-05-29: updated the “About the Library” and “Support the Library” pages
2019-05-25: abandoned the “Library Card” concept, all files can now be downloaded directly, without entering password
2019-05-21: updated the “RC Smith” author’s page
2019-05-09: new recording of an R.E. Howard poem, “One Who Comes at Eventide”
2019-04-09: new book, “The Last Man” by Mary Shelley