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      English

      What is Art - Lyof N. Tolstoi
      Hinduism and India - Govinda Das - (22-04-2010 - first round: David - 11-05: text in utf-8 available for 2nd round proofing - in waiting "sanskrit")
      Belgium's Agony - Emile Verhaeren
      Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism - Paul Carus
      Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness - Louis Couperus (Christine & Andrea)
      Old People and the Things That Pass - Louis Couperus
      Select Works - Plotinus (translation: Thomas Taylor)
      Heather - John Trevana (Second of the Dartmoor Novels)
      Granite - John Trevena (Third of the Dartmoor Novels)
      Arminel of the West - John Trevena
      Bracken - John Trevena
      The Miracle of Saint Anthony - Maurice Maeterlinck
      Canute the Great, 995-1035 - Laurence M. Larson (R1 - R2 Marc - Andrea - Christine)
      An Introduction to Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt
      Elements of Folk Psychology - Wilhelm Wundt
      Founders of Modern Psychology - Stanley G. Hall
      The Risen Sun - Baron Suyematsu
      Voltaire - John Morley
      The Making of British India - Ramsay Muir
      The English Spy, vol. I - Bernard Blackmantle (Illustrations: Robert Cruikshank)
      The English Spy, vol. II - Bernard Blackmantle (Illustrations: Robert Cruikshank)
      The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah - Etienne Dinet and Sliman Ben Ibrahim (Andrea R1 - Christine R2)
      The Basis of Morality  - Arthur Schopenhauer
      Contemporary French Poetry (1912) - translation: Jethro Bithell
      Contemporary German Poetry (1909) -  translation: Jethro Bithell
      Contemporary Belgian Literature - translation: Jethro Bithell
      The Plays of E. Verhaeren - translation: Jethro Bithell a.o.
      Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck - Jethro Bithell (R1 Andrea - R2 Marc)
      Memoirs of a Revolutionist, vol. 1 and 2 by Peter Kropotkin
      Russian Literature, Ideals and Realities by Peter Kropotkin
      The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom by H.W. Van Loon (R1 Andrea - R2 Marc )
      Francis Bacon, Selections with Essays by Macaulay and S.A. Gardiner (OUP 1922)
      T.W. Rhys Davids' Buddhist India (R1 Andrea -  R2 Marc)
      By Proxy, vol. I  (R1 Christine) and vol. II by James Payn (R1-R2 Christine)
      History of the Plague in London - The Great Fire of London - The Storm - Works Vol. V - Daniel De Foe (R1/R2 Andrea & Christine) 
      Master Wace - His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (about 1170) (from the Roman de Rou - translated by Edgar Taylor - 1837)
      Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Alexander Berkman
      The Human Slaughterhouse (1913) by Wilhelm Lamszus,
      The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion (introduction H.G. Wells, 1919)
      Literary Fables by Tomas de Iriarte
      The American Indian (1922) by Clark Wissler
      Tour of a German Artist in England by J.D. Passavant, vol.1 and vol. 2
      Russia - its People and its Literature and The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin - Emilia Pardo Bazán
      Oceana, or England and her Colonies by J.A. Froude
      The Frontiersmen
      by Gustave Aimard (R1 Christine - R2 Camilo)
      The Genealogy of Morals by F. Nietzsche
      A Family of Noblemen by Mikhail Salnikov.
      The Albigenses vol 1 and vol 2 - C.B. Maturin

      In cooperation with Girlebooks:

      When Patty Went to College - Jean Webster (R1 Amy - R2 Laura)
      In the Mountains - Elisabeth (from E. and her German Garden) (available at PG and Girlebooks)
      Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther- Elisabeth (from E. and her German Garden) - (done - on PG and Girlebooks)
      The Pastor's Wife - Elisabeth (from E. and her German Garden) (available at PG and Girlebooks)
      The Doctor's Wife - M.E. Braddon (available on PG and at Girlebooks)
      Consequences - E.M. Delafield (availlable at PG and Girlebooks)
      Vera - Elisabeth (from E. and her German Garden) (available at PG - 19-11 - and Girlebooks)
      Adventures in Rügen - Elisabeth (from E. and her German Garden) (available at PG and Girlebooks.)


      French

      Charles Demailly - roman - E. et  J. de Goncourt
      Brun de la Montaigne - Paul Meyer (ed.) - Middle-French romance.
      Les Fiançailles by Maurice Maeterlinck (sequel to L'oiseau bleu)
      L'oiseau bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck (R1- Annemie)
      Les villes tentaculaires by Emile Verhaeren
      Poèmes, nouvelle série by Emile Verhaeren
      Poèmes, IIIe série by Emile Verhaeren
      La Pensée de l'Humanité by Léon Tolstoï

      Le naturalisme by Emilia Pardo Bazán (R1 Andrea)

      Dutch

      De onderaardsche reis van Klaas Klim - Lodvik Holberg
      Het leven en de lotgevallen van Robinson Crusoe - Vol. II - Daniel De Foe (R1 - Anne)
      Het leven en de lotgevallen van Robinson Crusoe - Vol. I - Daniel De Foe (R1 -Anne)
      De kinderen van Kapitein Grant (Drie delen: Zuid-Amerika - Australië - Stille Zuidzee) - Jules Verne (R1 Annemie - R2 Anne)
      Naklank: gedichten - Willem Bilderdijk
      Dionyzos - Louis Couperus
      Beschouwingen en kritieken - Lodewijk van Deyssel (will be scanned shortly)
      Kritieken - Lodewijk van Deyssel (will be available to work on shortly, after scanning)
      Voltaire, Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, Mirabeau in Nederland - Jhr. C.A. van Seypesteyn
      De kwael des tyds - Hendrik Conscience

      Mensch en menigte in Amerika - Johan Huizinga
      Nieuwere literatuurgeschiedenis, deel 1 van Willem Kloos
      Nieuwere literatuurgeschiedenis, deel 2 van Willem Kloos
      Nieuwere literatuurgeschiedenis, deel 3 van Willem Kloos
      Nieuwere literatuurgeschiedenis, deel 4 van Willem Kloos


      German

      Das Nordlicht - Theodor Däubler (1239 pages - we might split it up)
      Kyushu - Träume und Studien aus dem neuen Japan - Lafcadio Hearn
      Grundriss der Psychologie - Wilhelm Wundt
      Völkerpsychologie-01-01 - Wilhelm Wundt
      Völkerpsychologie-01-02 - Wilhelm Wundt
      Völkerpsychologie-02-01 - Wilhelm Wundt
      Völkerpsychologie-02-02 - Wilhelm Wundt
      Visionen der Dämmerung - Oskar Panizza
      Visionen, Skizzen und Erzählungen - Oskar Panizza


      Spanish

      El Bernardo, poema heroyco - tomo 1 , tomo 2 , tomo 3 - Bernardo de Balbuena (R1 Andrea - me too - anyone else? :)
      El Diablo Mundo - José de Espronceda

      Emilia Pardo Bazán: La cuestion palpitante (Israel F. R1 - Maria P. R2 - thanks!) and La madre naturaleza (R1 Andrea)


      Italian

      La Mandragola - Nicolo Machiavelli
      (R1 Marc)



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      English
      Dead Love and Other Inedited Pieces - Algernon Swinburne
      The Conquest of England (From Wace's Poem of the Roman de Rou) (1860) - Sir Alexander Malet (transl.)
      The Dramatic Works - Part I (Plays)- Voltaire
      The Dramatic Works - Part I, II (Plays) - Voltaire
      The Dramatic Works - Part I-II (Plays, Prefaces, Poems) - Voltaire
      Gates of Life - Bram Stoker
      Kottabos - R.W. Tyrrell
      A Short History of the British Commonwealth (2 vols.) - Ramsay Muir
      The Cameronians - a Novel - James Grant
      The Chronology of Ancient Nations (Arabic Text of the Athár-Ul-Bákiya of Albirûni) by Dr. C. Edward Sachau
      Rousseau & Education According to Nature by Thomas Davidson
      The New Republic by W.H. Mallock
      Oberon. A Poem (From the German of Wieland)-01 by William Sotheby
      Oberon. A Poem (From the German of Wieland)-02by William Sotheby

      French
      Mes Inscriptions - Journal intime - N.E. Rétif de la Bretonne

      German
      Die Blumen des Bösen - Charles Baudelaire (übersetzt von Stefan George - 1922)
      Chronologie orientalischen Völker von Alberuni - Herausgegeben von Dr. C. Eduard Sachau
      German and Latin: Carmina Burana

      Dutch
      De mensch en de dichter Bilderdijk - Isaac da Costa


      E-texts, finished and published at PG

      A Drake By George! - John Trevena
      Het leven der bijen - Maurice Maeterlinck
      The New Paul and Virginia by W.H. Mallock
      Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
      Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley
      The Travels and Adventures of James Massey  (1733) by Simon Tyssot de Patot
      Les voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé (1710) by Simon Tyssot de Patot
      War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
      In a Glass Darkly, vol. 1, 2 and 3 by J.S. LeFanu
      Lost Sir Massingberd, vol 1 and 2 by James Payn
      Penelope Brandling, Ariadne in Mantua and Limbo and Other Essays by Vernon Lee
      The Black Opal by Katharine S. Prichard (1921)
      The Colonization of North America - H.E. Bolton & T.M. Marshall
      Three Hills (Poems) by J.C. Squire and C. Baudelaire
      Poems and Prose Poems - C. Baudelaire (J. Huneker)
      Ormond - C.B. Brown, vol I, II, III
      Essays by David Hume
      The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson Rankin
      The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (transl. Cyril Scott)
      The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas
      Love, Worship and Death by Rennell Rodd
      Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf - Rennell Rodd (intr. O. Wilde)
      The Gospel of Buddha - Paul Carus (Illustr. Olga Kopetzky)

      A Fantasy of Far Japan - Baron Kencho Suyematsu 
      A Philosophical Dictionary - vol. I - II - III - IV - V- VI - VII - VIII - IX - X - Voltaire.
      The Terror - Arthur Machen
      Three Philosophical Poets - George Santayana
      Voltaire's Romances - Voltaire
      The Great Return - Arthur Machen
      The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
      Contemporary Belgian Poetry - Jethro Bithell
      Arthur Machen - Vince Starrett
      Les Rythmes souverains - Émile Verhaeren
      The Doctor's Wife - M.E. Braddon (produced together with Girlebooks.com)
      A Woman's Experience in the Great War - Louise Mack
      Émile Verhaeren - Stefan Zweig
      Menotah (A Tale of the Riel Rebellion) - E.G. Henham
      A Japanese Boy - Shigemi Shiukichi
      Door duisternis tot licht - Raden Adjeng Kartini
      The Buddha's Path of Virtue (Dhammapada transl.) - F.L. Woodward
      The Character of the British Empire (Essay) - Ramsay Muir

      James Ensor - Emile Verhaeren
      The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites - Dudley Wright
      In the Mountains - Elizabeth von Arnim (produced together with Girlebooks.com)
      Abbé Aubain and Mosaics - Prosper Mérimée
      Consequences - E.M. Delafield
      Thomas Moore - Stephen Gwynn
      Mr Skeffington - Elizabeth von Arnim (at PGA)
      Dr. Adriaan - Louis Couperus
      The White Man's Foot - Grant Allen
      Charles Darwin - Grant Allen
      Footsteps of Fate - Louis Couperus
      The Pioneers - Katharine Prichard
      Letters of a Javanese Princess - Raden Adjeng Kartini
      Nothing so Strange - James Hilton(10-12 at PGA)
      Furze the Cruel - John Trevena
      Das Buch der Bilder - R.M. Rilke
      The Twilight of the Souls - Louis Couperus
      Vera - Elizabeth von Arnim (produced together with Girlebooks.com)
      The Betrothal - Maurice Maeterlinck
      The Japanese Spirit - Okakura-Yoshisaburo
      The Will to Doubt- Alfred H. Lloyd
      By Violence - John Trevena(PG of Australia)
      Der neuen Gedichte (Anderer Teil) - R.M. Rilke
      Neue Gedichte - R.M. Rilke
      The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories - E.M. Forster
      Die Sonnette an Orpheus - R.M. Rilke - at PG of Australia
      Small Souls - Louis Couperus
      Erste Gedichte - R.M. Rilke
      Poèmes - Emile Verhaeren
      Poems - Emile Verhaeren
      Sebastian Melmoth - Oscar Wilde
      Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen - Elisabeth von Arnim (produced together with Girlebooks.com)

      Majesty, A Novel - Louis Couperus
      Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality - Stuart Mason (also available at Librivox)
      Maxims and Reflections - J.W. von Goethe
      Underground Man - Gabriel Tarde
      The New Gulliver & Other Stories - Barry Pain
      The Guns of Europe - Joseph A. Altsheler


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