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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)
The Authoress of the Odyssey by Samuel Butler (1897)
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)
Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan (1825–1826) Deutsch/German
The Last Man (1826)
Jane Webb (Jane Loudon)
The Mummy! (1827)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
The Lifted Veil (1859)
Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
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)
Of Truth and Legend (2025, with A-K2-C) (For adult readers)
Zäh und Dunkel (2020) Deutsch/German
Dark and Viscous (English translation)
Path to a True Calling (2024)
Of Truth and Legend (2025, with R.C. Smith) (For adult readers)
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 …
What’s new?
2025-12-07: This is the first offline version of the Dunyazad Digital Library