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‘Abdu’l-Bahá (1844–1921) [aka Abdu'l-Baha, Abdul-Baha, Abdul Baha, 'Abdul-Baha, Abdu'l Baha, Abdulbaha]
[various]
[tr] [a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
[see also Bahá’u’lláh ]
Hunter “Patch” Adams (*1945)
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)
James Agee (1909–1955)
James Allen
Kingsley Amis (*1922)
Alfred Andersch (*1914)
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
Death in the Woods
The Untold Lie
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677)
Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533)
Aristoteles (384–322 bce) [aka Aristotle, Aristote, Aristotélēs]
H. C. Artmann (1921–2000)
Margaret Atwood (*1939)
Marcus Aurelius = Marcus Aurelius
Jane Austen (1775–1817)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973)
Bahá’u’lláh (1817–1892) [aka Bahaullah, Baha'u'llah; Bahai, Baha'i, Baháí]
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Autobiographical Notes
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1963)
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956)
[Leben ist Brückenschlagen ] (1962)
Antwort an die literarischen Emigranten
Diesterweg
Epilog und lyrisches Ich
Fazit der Perspektiven
Der Garten von Arles
Gebührt Carleton ein Denkmal?
Eine Geburtstagsrede und die Folgen
Gehirne
Genie und Gesundheit
Gespräch
Heinrich Mann zum sechzigsten Geburtstag
Die neue literarische Saison
Zum Thema Geschichte
E. C. Bentley (1875–1956) [aka Edmund Clerihew Bentley]
Jürgen Berg (*19..)
Thomas Bernhard (1831–1990)
Anton Bernolák (1762–1813)
Biblia [aka Bible, Bibel]
[tr] Ecclesiastes
[tr] Job
[tr] Luke
[tr] Matthew
[tr] Psalm XXIII
[tr] The Sermon on the Mount [= chapters V to VII of Matthew ]
[tr] [various ]
[tr] [mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b ]
Peter Bichsel (*1935)
Der Mann mit dem Gedächtnis
Manfred Bieler (*1934)
Horst Bienek (1930–1990)
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977)
Spuk, dumm und aufgebessert
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711)
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985)
Kay Boyle (1902–1992)
Ray Bradbury (*1920)
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (1938/42)
Peter Breiner (*19..)
Javorový list č. 18
Javorový list č. 24
Javorový list č. 43
Max Brod (1884–1968)
Hugh Brogan
The Pelican History of the United States of America (1985)
Albín Brunovský [aka Albin Brunovsky]
Buddha (560? –480? bce)
[tr] Dhammapada
[tr] [mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b ]
Igor Bukovský (*19..)
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994)
The Most Beautiful Girl in Town
Kir Bulychov [Кир Булычев] (1934–2003; see author’s homepage in Russian / in English ) [aka Bulychev, Kiril Bulyčov]
Девочка, с которой ничего не случится [Devochka, s kotoroy nichego ne sluchitsya ] (1965) [5 KB ]
Великий гусляр [Velikiy Guslyar ]
Марсианское зелье [Marsianskoye zel’ye ]
Река Хронос [Ryeka Khronos ] (1992)
Ленечка-Леонардо [Lyonechka-Leonardo]
О любви к бессловесным тварьям [O lyubvi k besslovesnym tvaryam]
Поступили в продажу золотые рыбкы [Postupili v prodazhu zolotyye rybky]
Родимые пятна [Rodimyye pyatna]
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James M. Cain (1892–1977)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
Mildred Pierce (1941)
Double Indemnity (1945)
Meg Campbell
Just Saying You Love Me Doesn’t Make It So
Truman Capote (1924–1984)
Dale Carnegie (18..–19..)
Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business (1937)
How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937)
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948)
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
[quoted by Dale Carnegie]
E. H. Carr (18..–19..)
What Is History? (1961 [1984:ii])
The Historian and His Facts
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Through the Looking Glass (1871)
The Hunting of the Snark
[They Told Me You Had Been to Her]
Jiří Černý (*19..)
Anton Čechov = Anton Chekhov
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794)
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
The Big Sleep (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
The Lady in the Lake (1943)
The High Window (1943)
The Little Sister (1949)
I’ll Be Waiting
Red Wind
The Simple Art of Murder
James Hadley Chase (1906–1985)
John Cheever (1912–1982)
Anton Chekhov [Антон Чехов] (1860–1904) [aka Čechov, Cechov, Tschechow]
Иванов [Ivanov ] (1888)
Леший [Leshiy ] (1889)
Дядя Ваня [Dyadya Vanya ] (1897)
Чайка [Chayka ] (1897)
Три сестры [Tri siostry ] (1901)
Вишневый сад [Vishnyovyi sad ] (1904)
[Драмы и комедии ] [{Dramy i komedii }] (1920)
Каникулярные работы институтки Наденьки N [Kanikulyarnyye raboty institutki Naden’ki N]
Лебединая песня [Lebedinaya pyesnya]
Медведь [Medved’]
На большой дороге [Na bol’shoy doroge]
О вреде табака [O vrede tabaka]
Папаша [Papasha]
Письмо к ученому соседу [Pismo k uchonomu sosedu]
Предложение [Predlozheniye]
Свадьба [Svad’ba]
Трагик по неволе [Tragik po nevole]
Тысяча одна страсть, или страшная ночь [Tysyacha odna strast’, ili strashnaya noch]
Что чаще всего встречается в романах, повестьях и т. п.? [Chto chashche vsego vstrechayetsya v romanakh, povestyakh i t. p.?]
Юбилей [Yubiley]
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
[photograph ]
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
[Father Brown ] (1911–35/1992)
The Invisible Man (1911)
The Sign of the Broken Sword (1911? )
The Strange Crime of John Boulnais (1914? )
The Mirror of the Magistrate (1927)
The Blast of the Book (1927? )
Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
Agatha Christie (1890–1976)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
Three Act Tragedy (1935)
Murder on the Links
Why Didn’t They Call Evans?
Dumb Witness (1938? )
Sad Cypress (1939)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Body in the Library (1941)
Taken at the Flood (1948)
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Cat among the Pigeons (1959)
Appointment with Death
A Carribean Mystery (1964)
Poirot’s Early Cases (1924–1961/1974)
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (1975)
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Cornish Mystery
The Double Clue
How Does Your Garden Grow?
The King of Clubs
The Lemesurier Insurance
The Market Basing Mystery
Problem at Sea
The Third-Floor Flat
The Veiled Lady
Wasps’ Nest
The Witness for the Prosecution
[about Agatha Christie]
[quoted by Agatha Christie]
Robert M. Coates (1897–1973)
The Darkness of the Night
Matt Cohen (*1942)
The Nurse from Outer Space
Comenius = Jan Amos Komenský
Arthur Conan Doyle = Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
Heart of Darkness (1899/1902)
The Shadow Line (1916)
The Secret Sharer
Russel H. Conwell (18..–1...)
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
David Crystal (*1941)
Who Cares About English Usage? (1984)
The English Language (1988)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (199.)
[quoted by David Crystal]
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Clarence Day (1874–1935)
Father Is Firm With His Ailments
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe of York, a Mariner (1719)
Jenny Diski
Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
Die Ermordung einer Butterblume
John Donne (1572? –1631)
Fiodor M. Dostoyevskiy [Федор М. Достоевский] (1821–1881) [aka Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevski, Dostoevskij, Dostojewski, Dostojewskij, Dostojewsky, Dostojevskij, Dostojevský, Dostoïevski, Dostoievski]
Преступление и наказание [Prestupleniye i nakazaniye ] (1866)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
The Valley of Fear (1915)
His Last Bow (1917)
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
Der Richter und sein Henker (1952)
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Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854)
Walter D. Edmonds
Herbert Eisenreich (1925–1986)
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
[essays ]
The Function of Criticism
Hamlet [and His Problems]
The Metaphysical Poets
The Modern Mind
Tradition and the Individual Talent
[quoted by T. S. Eliot]
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
[essays ]
Nature (1836)
The American Scholar (1837)
The Divinity School Address (1838)
Self-Reliance (1841)
Experience (1842)
Education (1864)
Give All to Love
[various ]
[mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h ]
[quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Epictetus (60? –>100) [aka Épictète, Epiktet, Epiktetos]
Paul Ernst (1866–1933)
Der Tod des Dschinghiskhan
John E. Esslemont (1874–1925)
Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era (1923/1980:v;1993)
[quoted by John E. Esslemont]
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Kara Fall
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
William Faulkner (1897–1962)
The Old People
A Rose for Emily
›Die Feder‹
Ľubomír Feldek (*1936)
Modrá kniha rozprávok (1974)
Čo maľovala Oľga
Kúzelník a kvetinárka
Najkrajšia rozprávka na svete (1974)
Olinkiných sto bábik
O pomalom predavačovi
O psovi Achillesovi
O rybe Rebeke
Rozprávka zo smetiska
Stratená princezná (1974)
Úvodná rozprávka o tom, prečo sa táto kniha volá Modrá kniha rozprávok (1974)
Zlatúšik
Zo života zrkadiel
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958)
Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)
[The Man of the Hill] [= chapters VIII.10 – 15 in ...Tom Jones... ] (1749)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Three Hours Between Planes
Pavol Flajžík
Otto Flake
Theodor Fontane (1819–1898)
Irrungen, Wirrungen (1888)
E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
The Life to Come and Other Stories (1903–1958)
Maurice (1914)
Albergo Empedocle
Ansell
Arthur Snatchfold
The Classical Annex
Dr Woolacott
The Helping Hand
The Life to Come
The Obelisk
The Other Boat
The Other Side of the Hedge
The Purple Envelope
The Rock
The Story of the Siren
The Torque
What Does It Matter? A Morality
(& Ch. Dilke & A. E. Coppard & J. Laver) Three Courses and a Dessert
Dick Francis (*1920)
Leonhard Frank (1882–1961)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Seymour Freedgood
Grandma and the Hindu Monk
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
Erich Fried (1821–1990)
Max Frisch (1911–1991)
Franz Fühmann (1922–1984)
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Jostein Gaarder (*19..)
Sofies verden [tr] Sofies Welt (1991)
[tr] Das Gartenfest [= ein Kapitel in Sofies Welt ] (1991)
[quoted by Jostein Gaarder]
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970)
The D. A. Breaks a Seal (194.)
The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands (1962)
The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife
Henry A. Giroux (*19..)
Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals (1984? )
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730? –1774)
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Günter Grass (*1927)
Robert Graves (1895–1985)
Sidney Greenbaum
(& Randolph Quirk ) A University Grammar of English (1973)
[quoted by Sidney Greenbaum]
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Karl Hugo Haase (1827–1873)
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
Red Harvest (1929)
The Dain Curse (1929)
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
The Glass Key (1931)
The Thin Man (1932)
[The Big Knockover and Other Stories ] (ed.: Lillian Hellman) (1924–1966)
Moss Hart (1904–1961)
Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Wakefield
Young Goodman Brown
Herbert Heckman
Ein Bauer wechselt seine Kleidung und verliert sein Leben
Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
The Torrents of Spring (1925)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
The First 49 Stories (1938)
The Light of the World
A Man of the World
Ten Indians
The Three-Day Blow
Up in Michigan
O. Henry (1862–1910)
Masters of Art
A Retrieved Reformation
Stephan Hermlin (*1915)
Hesiod (≈ 700 bce) [aka Hesiodos, Hésiodos, Hēsíodos, Hésiode]
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)
Peter Camenzind (1904)
Der Steppenwolf
Der Europäer
Die Verlobung
Georg Heym (1887–1912)
Stefan Heym (*1913)
Paul Heyse (1830–1914)
Wolfgang Hildesheimer (*1916)
Rolf Hochhuth (*1931)
Robert Hochner (19..–200.)
Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870)
Matora (1857)
Vieroslavín
Milan Hodža (18..–19..)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929)
Richard Hoggart (1918–19..)
The Anatomy of Mass Communications in Britain
Franz Hohler
Harry Holzheu (*19..)
Natürliche Rhetorik für Führungskräfte
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 bce) [aka Horace, Horaz, Horác]
Elbert Hubbard
Ricarda Huch (1864–1947)
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Il’ya Il’f [Илья Ильф] (1897–1937) & Yevgeniy Petrov [Евгений Петров] (1903–1942) [aka Ilya Ilf, Ilja Ilf, Iľja Iľf; Yevgeny Petrov, Jewgeni Petrow, Jevgenij Petrov]
Двенадцать стулев [Dvenadtsat’ stulyev ]
Washington Irving (1783–1859)
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
(ed.) Great English Short Stories (1957)
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Shirley Jackson (1919–1965)
Henry James (1843–1916)
William James (1842–1910)
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969)
Walter Jens (*1923)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
The Courting of Sister Wisby
Johannes Jørgensen (1866–1956)
Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy (1764–1846)
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Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
Betrachtung (1913)
Ein Landarzt (1919)
Ein Hungerkünstler (1924)
[Sämtliche Erzählungen ] (1970)
Ein altes Blatt
Der Bau
Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer
Ein Bericht für eine Akademie
Beschreibung eines Kampfes
Ein Besuch im Bergwerk
Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle
Der Dorfschullehrer
Das Ehepaar
Entschlüsse
Forschungen eines Hundes
Der Heizer
Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande
Ein Hungerkünstler
In der Strafkolonie
Der Jäger Gracchus
Josephine, die Sängerin oder das Volk der Mäuse
Eine kaiserliche Botschaft
Kinder auf der Landstraße
Kleider
Der Kübelreiter
Schakale und Araber
Der Schlag ans Hoftor
Unglücklichsein
Das Urteil
Die Verwandlung
Vor dem Gesetz
Zum Nachdenken für Herrenreiter
Ján Kamenistý (*19..)
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
[ein Motto für Avenarius’ Zitatenbuch ]
Hellmuth Karasek (*1934)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974)
George S. Kaufman (1889–1961)
(& Moss Hart ) You Can’t Take It With You (1936)
Eduard von Keyserling (1855–1918)
Larry King (*19..; see author’s homepage )
Martin Luther King (1929–1968)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
The Courting of Dinah Shadd
Mary Postgate
The Return of Imroy
Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948)
Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811)
Michael Kohlhaas (1810)
Über die allmähliche Verfertigung von Gedanken beim Reden
Alexander Kluge (*1932)
Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–19..)
Jan Amos Komenský (1592–1670) [aka Comenius, Komensky]
Labyrint světa a ráj srdce (1631)
Friedrich Salomon Krauss
Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955)
Kurt Kusenberg
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Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696)
Oliver La Farge (1901–1963)
John Lame Deer
Ring Lardner (1885–1933)
Old Folks’ Christmas
On Conversation
Milan Lasica (*1940)
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
B. F. Lazar (*19..)
Chlapec z domu tieňov (1971)
Dlhé leto
Dlhý sen o lokomotíve
Dom tieňov
Limpopo
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944)
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978)
John Le Carré (*1931)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
The Naive and Sentimental Lover (1971)
Siegfried Lenz (*1926)
Mikail Y. Lermontov [Михаил Ю. Лермонтов] (1814–1841) [aka Michail J. Lermontow]
Герой нашего времени [Geroy nashego vremeni ] (1839/40)
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1965)
David Lodge (*1935)
Sigrid Löffler (*1942)
Jack London (1876–1916)
The Law of Life
To Build a Fire
Which Make Men Remember
Martin Luther (1483–1546)
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Ross Macdonald (1915–1983)
Golo Mann (1909–1994)
Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (1958/1967)
[zitiert von Golo Mann]
Heinrich Mann (1871–1950)
Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
Der Tod in Venedig (1911)
[Novellen I ] (1925)
Der Bajazzo
Beim Propheten
Das Eisenbahnunglück
Enttäuschung
Die Hungernden
Wie Jappe und Do Escobar sich prügelten
Der Kleiderschrank
Der kleine Herr Friedemann
Luischen
Tobias Mindernickel
Tristan
Der Weg zum Friedhof
[ein Motto für Avenarius’ Zitatenbuch ]
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
The Garden Party
Marriage à la Mode
Marcus Aurelius (121–80 bce) [aka Mark Aurel, Marc Aurèle, Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Marko Aurélius]
Mark Twain = Mark Twain
Juan Mascaró
translation of Buddha ’s Dhammapada (1973)
Alexander Matuška (1910–1975)
William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
William Maxwell (*1908)
Karl May (1842–1912; view special bio page [30 KB ]; external links DISCLAIMER )
Durch die Wüste (1881)
Durchs wilde Kurdistan (1881/2)
Von Bagdad nach Stambul (1882-4)
In den Schluchten des Balkan (1885-7)
Durch das Land der Skipetaren (1887/8)
Der Schut (1888+1892)
Am Rio de la Plata (1889/90)
In den Cordilleren (1890/91)
Im Lande des Mahdi I (1891/2) [41 KB + 21 KB ]
Im Lande des Mahdi II (1892/3) [73 KB + 29 KB ]
Im Lande des Mahdi III (1893+1896)
Winnetou I (1893)
Winnetou II (1875/1888/1893)
Winnetou III (1880/1882/1893)
Winnetou IV (1910)
Mein Leben und Streben (1910)
[verschiedene]
[Mottos für Avenarius’ Zitatenbuch : a , b , c ]
[Karl Mays schlechteste Zitate]
[zitiert von Karl May:]
[über Karl May:]
John McAleer
Nero Wolfe: A Retrospective (1984)
Ed McBain (*1926) [aka Evan Hunter]
Death of a Nurse (1955)
The Mugger
Mischief (1993)
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
Cruel and Barbarous Treatment
Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
Madame Zelinsky and the King of Finland
The Sojourner
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
Ross McDonald = Ross Macdonald
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Fiddler
The Sermon [= chapter IX of Moby-Dick... ]
The Lee Shore [= chapter XXIII of Moby-Dick... ]
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
Valér Mikula (*19..)
Arthur Miller (*1915)
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Fame
Henry Miller (1891–1980)
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Sexus (1949)
Joseph Mitchell
The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)
Gone with the Wind (1936)
George Moore (1852–1933)
Farley Mowat
The Snow Walker
Walk Well, My Brother
Adolf Muschg (*1934)
Robert Musil (1880–1942)
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906)
Das verzauberte Haus
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Jozef Dado Nagy (*19..)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
Vandover and the Brute (1895)
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Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–1862)
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)
A Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1956)
Ile
In the Zone
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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
Soldiers of the Republic
The Standard of Living
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Daniel Pastirčák
Norman Vincent Peale (18..–19..)
The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
[quoted by Norman Vincent Peale]
Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) [aka Petrarch, Pétrarque]
Yevgeniy Petrov = Il’ya Il’f & Yevgeniy Petrov
Rosamunde Pilcher (*1924)
Platon (427–348/7 bce) [aka Plato, Platón, Plátōn]
Heiner Plaul (*19..)
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus “the Younger” (62? –113? ) [aka Pliny the Younger; Plinius d. J., der Jüngere; Pline le Jeune]
Gaius Plinius Secundus “the Elder” (23? –79) [aka Pliny the Elder; Plinius d. Ä., der Ältere; Pline l’Ancien]
William Plomer (1903–1973)
The Child of Queen Victoria
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Tell-Tale Heart
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Karl Popper (1902–1994)
V. S. Pritchett (*1900)
Sense of Humour
The Voice
proverbs
Latin
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
Aleksandr S. Pushkin [Александр С. Пушкин] (1799–1837) [aka Alexander Puškin, Alexandr Puschkin, Alexandre Pouchkine]
Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина [Povesti pokojnogo Ivana Petrovicha Belkina ] (1831)
Барышня-крестянка [Baryshnya-krestyanka]
Выстрел [Vystrel]
Гробовщик [Grobovshchik]
Метель [Metel’]
Стационный смотритель [Statsionnyi smotritel’]
Ellery Queen (1905–1982) & (1905–1971)
The Siamese Twins Mystery (1933)
The Origin of Evil (1951)
[various]
Randolph Quirk (*19..)
(& Sidney Greenbaum ) A University Grammar of English (1973)
[quoted by Randolph Quirk]
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Stefan Raab (*19..)
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki (*1920)
Mein Leben (1999)
(& Sigrid Löffler & Hellmuth Karasek ) ... und alle Fragen offen (2000)
(Hrsg.) Anbruch der Gegenwart (1971)
(Hrsg.) Verteidigung der Zukunft (1980)
[Mottos für Avenarius’ Zitatenbuch : a , b ]
[zitiert von Marcel Reich-Ranicki]
Ludwig Reiners (1896–1957)
Deutsche Stilkunst
Sorgenfibel (1948)
Stilfibel (1951)
[zitiert von Ludwig Reiners]
Jan Rejžek (*19..)
Ruth Rendell (*1930)
A New Lease of Death (1969)
The Bridesmaid
I. A. Richards (1893–1979)
The Two Uses of Language [= chapter 34 of Principles of Literary Criticism ]
Poetry and Beliefs [= chapter 35 of Principles of Literary Criticism ]
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910)
Der Brief des jungen Arbeiters
Die Turnstunde
Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke
„Du, der ich’s nicht sage, daß ich bei Nacht...“ [in Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge ] (1910)
Peter Roach (*19..)
English Phonetics and Phonology (1983/1991)
Herbert Rosendorfer
Registerarie für Leporello
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Eva Ružičková (*19..)
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Gustav Sack
Saki (1870–1916)
J. D. Salinger (*1919)
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
For Esmé – With Love and Squalor
[Departure from Pensey] [= chapter 8 in The Catcher in the Rye ] (1951)
William Saroyan (1908–1981)
There Was a Young Lady of Perth
Július Satinský (1941–2002) [aka Julius Satinsky]
Moji milí Slováci (1991)
[fejtóny ]
[(& Milan Lasica ) dialógy ]
[(& Milan Lasica ) poviedky ]
Dvadsiaty piaty list Slovákom, v ktorom je reč o tom, či čítame (1991)
Fascinujúce dedinské prízemné domčeky (1998)
Národná odroda
Peniaze nerastú nadivoko
[Posledné interview (& Jozef Dado Nagy )] (2002)
Príbuzní na cintorínoch
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
Paul Scheerbart
Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)
Arno Schmidt (1914–1979)
Geschichten von der Insel Mann
Rolf Schneider (*1932)
Sascha Schneider (1870–1927; siehe Kommentar )
Wolf Schneider (*1925)
Deutsch für Profis (1984)
Deutsch für Kenner (1987)
Deutsch fürs Leben (1994)
Der vierstöckige Hausbesitzer (1994)
(Hrsg.) Unsere tägliche Desinformation (1984)
Bürgermeister mit Jeans-Komponente
Satzbau im Sekundentakt
Sohn Josef auf Pferd Otto
Die Teufelskralle der Abstraktion
Viel Gegacker, wenig Eier
[zitiert von Wolf Schneider]
Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931)
Karl Schönherr (1867–1943)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde (1813/1847)
Ueber das Sehn und die Farben (1816/1854)
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung I (1818/1844/1859)
Vorrede zur ersten Auflage (1818)
Vorrede zur zweiten Auflage (1844)
Vorrede zur dritten Auflage (1859)
Ueber den Willen in der Natur (1835/1854)
Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik (1840/1860)
Preisschrift über die Freiheit des Willens (1840/1860)
Preisschrift über die Grundlage der Moral (1840/1860)
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung II (1844/1859)
Parerga und Paralipomena I (1851)
Fragmente zur Geschichte der Philosophie (1851)
Versuch über das Geistersehn und was damit zusammenhängt (1851)
Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (1851)
Parerga und Paralipomena II (1851)
Den Intellekt überhaupt und in jeder Beziehung betreffende Gedanken (1851)
Einige archäologische Betrachtungen (1851)
Einige Betrachtungen über den Gegensatz des Dinges an sich und der Erscheinung (1851)
Einige mythologische Betrachtungen (1851)
Einige Verse (1851)
Einige Worte über den Pantheismus (1851)
Einiges zur Sanskritlitteratur (1851)
Gleichnisse, Parabeln und Fabeln (1851)
Nachträge zur Lehre vom Leiden der Welt (1851)
Nachträge zur Lehre von der Bejahung und Verneinung des Willens zum Leben (1851)
Nachträge zur Lehre von der Nichtigkeit des Daseyns (1851)
Psychologische Bemerkungen (1851)
Selbstdenken (1851)
Skitze einer Geschichte der Lehre vom Idealen und Realen (1851)
Transscendente Spekulation über die anscheinende Absichtlichkeit im Schicksale des Einzelnen (1851)
Ueber den Selbstmord (1851)
Ueber die Universitäts-Philosophie (1851)
Ueber die Weiber (1851)
Ueber Erziehung (1851)
Ueber Gelehrsamkeit und Gelehrte (1851)
Ueber Lerm und Geräusch (1851)
Ueber Lesen und Bücher (1851)
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Ueber Religion (1851)
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Ueber Sprache und Worte (1851)
Ueber Urtheil, Kritik, Beifall und Ruhm (1851)
Zur Ethik (1851)
Zur Farbenlehre (1851)
Zur Lehre von der Unzerstörbarkeit unseres wahren Wesens durch den Tod (1851)
Zur Logik und Dialektik (1851)
Zur Methaphysik des Schönen und Aesthetik (1851)
Zur Philosophie und Wissenschaft der Natur (1851)
Zur Physiognomik (1851)
Zur Rechtslehre und Politik (1851)
[Mottos für Avenarius’ Zitatenbuch : a , b , c ]
[zitiert von Arthur Schopenhauer:]
Robert Schuller (*19..)
[Sermon on Phil 1:7 (broadcast on NBC Europe on 9 February 1997)]
Anna Seghers (1800–1983)
Judy & Jim Sellner
Falling in Love for Keeps
Seneca (4? bce–65 ce) [aka Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger; d. J., der Jüngere]
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Romeo and Juliet (1595)
[tr] King Henry IV, Part II (1598)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1601)
Othello (1604)
Sonnet XVIII
Sonnet CXXIX
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
Blaming the Bard (1896)
[various]
Irvin Shaw (1913–1984)
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
In the French Style
Jane Smiley (*1949)
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
Socrates (470–399 bce) [aka Sokrates, Socrate]
Steve Solomon (*19..; see author’s homepage )
Anton Srholec (*19..)
Wilbur Daniel Steele (1886–1970)
How Beautiful With Shoes (1932)
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)
John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
Tortilla Flat (1935)
The Harness
Stanislav Štepka (*1944)
Loď svet (1988)
Vygumuj a napíš (1989)
Delostrelci na mesiaci (1992)
Dohoda možná (1994)
Carl Sternheim (1878–1942)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
Hans Joachim Störig
Kleine Weltgeschichte der Philosophie (1950/1990:xv)
[zitiert von Hans Joachim Störig]
Rex Stout (1886–1975; view special bio page [100 KB ])
Her Forbidden Knight (1913)
Under the Andes (1914)
A Prize for Princes (1914)
The Great Legend (1916)
How Like a God (1929)
Seed on the Wind (1930)
Golden Remedy (1931)
Forest Fire (1933)
The President Vanishes (1934)
Fer-de-Lance (1934) [95 KB + 14 KB ]
O Careless Love! (1935)
A Question of Proof (1935)
The League of Frightened Men (1935)
The Rubber Band (1936)
The Red Box (1937)
The Hand in the Glove (1937)
Too Many Cooks (1938) [39 KB + 6 KB ]
Mr. Cinderella (1938)
Some Buried Caesar (1939)
Red Threads (1939)
Double for Death (1939)
The Mountain Cat Murders (1939)
Over My Dead Body (1940)
Where There’s a Will (1940)
Bad for Business (1940)
The Broken Vase (1941)
The Sound of Murder (1941) [aka Alphabet Hicks ]
Black Orchids (1942)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
The Silent Speaker (1946)
Too Many Women (1947)
And Be a Villain (1948)
The Second Confession (1949)
Trouble in Triplicate (1949)
In the Best Families (1950)
Three Doors to Death (1950)
Murder by the Book (1951)
Curtains for Three (1951)
Prisoner’s Base (1952)
Triple Jeopardy (1952)
The Golden Spiders (1953)
The Black Mountain (1954) [11 KB ]
Three Men Out (1954)
Before Midnight (1955)
Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
Three Witnesses (1956)
If Death Ever Slept (1957)
Three for the Chair (1957)
Champagne for One (1958)
And Four To Go (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959) [aka Murder in Style ]
Too Many Clients (1960)
Three at Wolfe’s Door (1960)
The Final Deduction (1961)
Gambit (1962)
Homicide Trinity (1962)
The Mother Hunt (1963)
A Right To Die (1964)
Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)
The Doorbell Rang (1965)
Death of a Doxy (1966)
The Father Hunt (1968)
Death of a Dude (1969)
Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
A Family Affair (1975)
[Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe ] (1977)
[Justice Ends at Home, and Other Stories ] (1977)
[Death Times Three ] (1985)
(ed.) The Illustrious Dunderheads (1942)
(ed.) Rue Morge , No. 1 (1946)
(& editors of Viking Press) The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (1973)
An Agacella Or (1914)
Assault on a Brownstone ([1959]/1985)
Before I Die (1947/1949)
Bitter End (1940/1977[1985])
Black Orchids (1942)
Blood Will Tell (1963/1964)
Booby Trap (1944)
Bullet for One (1948/1950)
By His Own Hand (1955) [aka Curtain Line]
Christmas Party (1957/1958)
The Cop-Killer (1951/1952)
Cordially Invited to Meet Death (1942)
Counterfeit for Murder (1959/1962)
Death of a Demon (1961/1962)
Die Like a Dog (1954/1956)
Disguise for Murder (1950)
Door to Death (1949/1950)
Easter Parade (1957/1958)
Eeny Meeny Murder Mo (1962)
Fourth of July Picnic (1957/1958)
Frame-Up for Murder (1958/1985)
The Gun with Wings (1949/1950)
Heels of Fate
Help Wanted, Male (1945/1949)
Home to Roost (1952)
Immune to Murder (1955/1957)
Instead of Evidence (1946/1949)
Invitation to Murder (1942/1954)
Jonathan Stannard’s Secret Vice (1915)
Justice Ends at Home
Kill Now – Pay Later (1962/1964)
The Lie
Man Alive (1947/1950)
Method Three for Murder (1960)
Méthode Américaine
The Mother of Invention (1913)
Murder Is Corny (1962/1964)
Murder Is No Joke (1958)
The Next Witness (1955/1956)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1942/1944)
An Officer and a Lady (1917)
Omit Flowers (1948/1950)
Pamfret and Peace
The Pay Yeoman (1914)
Poison a la Carte (1960)
A Professional Recall
The Rodeo Murder (1960)
The Rope Dance (1916)
Rose Orchid (1914)
Secrets
The Squirt and the Monkey (1951/1952)
This Won’t Kill You (1952/1954)
Too Many Detectives (1956/1957)
Tough Cop’s Gift (1953) [aka Santa Claus Beat aka Christmas Beat aka Nobody Deserved Justice]
A Tyrant Abdicates (1914)
Warner and Wife (1915)
Watson Was a Woman (1941)
When a Man Murders (1954/1956)
Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids (1963/1977)
A Window for Death (1956/1957)
The Zero Clue (1953/1954)
[various]
An Informal Interview with Rex Stout ([1973]/1977)
[mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b , c , d , e , f , g ]
[Rex Stout’s Worst quotations]
[Rex Stout on the Information, Please radio quiz show (29 August 1939)]
[videoclips]
[quoted by Rex Stout]
[about Rex Stout:]
August Stramm (1874–1915)
Erwin Strittmatter (1912–19..)
William Strunk Jr. (18..–19..)
(& E. B. White ) The Elements of Style (1935/1972:iii)
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[quoted by William Strunk Jr.]
Ján Sucháň (*19..)
[rôzne]
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Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928)
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver... (1726)
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Dominik Tatarka (1913–198.)
Friedrich Taubmann (1565–1613)
Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914)
illustrations to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
James Thurber (1894–1961)
The Catbird Seat (1942)
The Departure of Emma Inch
Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Unicorn in the Garden
Timrava (1867–1951) [aka Božena Slančíková]
Všetko za národ (1926)
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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
[tr] Democracy in America (1835+1840)
Leo Tolstoy [Лев Толстой] (1828–1910) [aka Lev Tolstoj, Lew Tolstoi, Léon Tolstoï; Nikolajevič, Nikolayevich, Nikolaevich, Nikolajewitsch]
Детство [Detstvo ] (1852)
Отрочество [Otrochestvo ] (1854)
Юность [Yunost’ ] (1857)
В чем моя вера? [V chom moya vyera? ] (1884)
Путь жизни [Put’ zhizni ] (1910)
Воспоминаиия детства [Vospominaniya detstva]
Исповедь [Ispoved’]
Первые воспоминания [Pervyye vospominaniya]
Чем люди живы [Chem lyudi zhivy]
Предисловие {в Путь жизни } [Predisloviye {in Put’ zhizni }] (1910)
Жизнь в настоящем {= глава XXI в Путь жизни } [Zhizn’ v nastoyashchem {= glava XXI in Put’ zhizni }] (1910)
[the central motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b ]
[mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b ]
[quoted by Leo Tolstoy]
[photograph ]
Anton Tschechow = Anton Chekhov
G. W. Turner (*1921)
Stylistics (1973)
[quoted by G. W. Turner]
Mark Twain (1835–1910) [aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens]
The Joke That Made Ed’s Fortune
Luck
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
A Table-Talk
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John Updike (*1932)
The Lucid Eye in Silver Town
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Josef Vlček (*19..)
Robert Voigtländer
Voltaire (1694–1778) [aka Françoise Marie Arouet]
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Alice Walker (*1944)
The Color Purple (1982)
Kindred Spirits
[Dear Nettie, I Don’t Write to God No More, I Write to You] [= a chapter in The Color Purple (Wash. Square Press 1983; pp. 175-9)] (1982)
Neale Donald Walsch (*19..; see author’s homepage )
Conversations with God I (1995)
Conversations with God II (1997)
Conversations with God III (1998)
Friendship with God (2000)
Communion with God (2000)
The New Revelations (2002)
The New Revelations: Talking Points (2002)
Beingness to Doingness (2002)
Fear: The Great Attractor (2002)
Is There Negativity in Wanting? (2002)
Seizing Your Moment of Grace [= final chapter of Communion with God ] (2000)
What Is Humility? (2002)
[interviewed on CNN’s Larry King Live ] (2000)
[mottoes for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations : a , b ]
Martin Walser (*1927)
Robert Walser (1878–1956)
Austin Warren
(& René Wellek ) Theory of Literature (1949)
[quoted by Austin Warren]
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
The Loved One (1948)
Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing
Frank Wedekind (1864–1918)
Peter Weiß (1916–1982)
René Wellek (1903–19..)
(& Austin Warren ) Theory of Literature (1949)
[quoted by René Wellek]
H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
E. B. White (1899–1985)
(& William Strunk Jr. ) The Elements of Style (1935/1972:iii)
The Door
The Hour of Letdown
Introduction [to The Elements of Style ] (1972)
[quoted by E. B. White]
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Leaves of Grass (1855–1891/2)
[various]
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
[a motto for Avenarius’ Book of Quotations ]
Billy Wilder (1906–2002)
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
Joy Williams (*19..)
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
The Glass Menagerie (1945)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
Gabriele Wohmann (*1932)
Sonntag bei den Kreisands
Herman Wouk (*1915)
The Aesthetic Evening of Tom Colwell
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Ivan Žežula (*19..; see author’s homepage )
Zastavte to šialenstvo v školách! / Stop That Insanity in Schools! (2001)
Arnold Zweig (1887–1968)
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)
Verwirrung der Gefühle (1927)
Sommernovellette
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