Corpus of German-Language Fiction

Contains 2,735 German-language prose works (mainly novels and short stories) by 549 authors, spanning from ca. 1510 to the 1940s (the bulk of texts is from 1840–1930). This makes for 937,8 MB uncompressed literary data. Texts were extracted from the Gutenberg-DE Edition 13 DVD-ROM (released in November, 2013) and converted from HTML to TXT. This corpus is meant for research purposes only, primarily for reproducing our results. There is no metadata other than author's name – title – year. All this info is included in the filename of the 2,735 files, like in this example: "Georg_Büchner_-_Lenz_(1837).txt". – In addition to the corpus with German originals, the second folder contains 484 texts from 18 foreign-language authors (translated into German from English, French, and Russian). Filenames in this folder don't contain information on year of publication. Sums up to another 176,2 MB of uncompressed textual data.