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A báróné ténsasszony: Regény
By Lajos Tolnai
In the bleak years after the defeat of 1849, the family of a dismissed official in the small town of Nagy-Kakasd scrape by on their daughter Bella's sewing. The novel follows Bella's fortunes, and the gossip and petty tyranny of small-town society under Austrian rule.
26 chapters · About 383 minutes of published text
A Brasileira de Prazins
By Camilo Castelo Branco
A novel of Camilo's later years, set in the villages of the Minho in the troubled decades after the liberal revolution of 1820. It centres on a household in Prazins and the woman who has come home from Brazil, and keeps the country gossip, the priests and the political quarrels of the time in view.
20 chapters · About 242 minutes of published text
A Capital Federal
By Coelho Netto
A countryman from the Brazilian backlands travels to the capital, Rio de Janeiro, and writes down his impressions. Coelho Netto's comic novel uses the outsider's eye on the city's new fashions, politics and noise in the years after the Republic.
14 chapters · About 171 minutes of published text
A Child's Garden of Verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's book of verses for children catches the way a child sees a bed that is a boat, a shadow that follows, a swing, a night when it is still light outside. It includes Bed in Summer, My Shadow, The Land of Counterpane and The Lamplighter. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
64 chapters · About 33 minutes of published text
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
5 chapters · About 123 minutes of published text
A Cidade do Vício
By Fialho de Almeida
Fialho de Almeida's first great collection of tales opens with a prelude, the Symphonia de Abertura, and follows with twelve vivid stories of country and city, among them Os Novilhos, O Roubo, A Camisa and Madona do Campo Santo. His prose is dense, sensuous and unsparing, and was a landmark of Portuguese naturalism.
13 chapters · About 287 minutes of published text
A Cidade e as Serras
By Eça de Queirós
Jacinto, a rich Portuguese born and raised in Paris, believes happiness lies in civilisation and fills his mansion with every modern device, growing steadily more bored. Called to his family's estate in the mountains of northern Portugal, he discovers another way of living, as told by his friend Zé Fernandes.
16 chapters · About 296 minutes of published text
A Confissão de Lúcio
By Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Having served ten years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, Lúcio writes down what happened. The story goes back to Paris in 1895, his friendship with the failed artist Gervásio Vila-Nova and the poet Ricardo de Loureiro, and a puzzle that the narrator is never quite able to answer.
8 chapters · About 107 minutes of published text
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 historical novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
44 chapters · About 500 minutes of published text
A correspondência de Fradique Mendes: memórias e notas
By Eça de Queirós
A memoir and a selection of letters of Carlos Fradique Mendes, a cosmopolitan poet, traveller and dandy invented by Eça de Queirós and his friends. The narrator recalls how he met him, then lets the letters, witty and opinionated on everything from Portugal to religion, finish the portrait of a man of his age.
24 chapters · About 233 minutes of published text
A csudafa
By Elek Benedek
Mirkó, king of seven countries, has every treasure but a child, until a day lost in a strangely changed forest brings him one. Elek Benedek's fairy-tale novel follows the story through fairyland, a spark, the spirit of the earth and a wondrous tree to a happy ending.
8 chapters · About 129 minutes of published text
A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)
Years ago Nora Helmer forged a signature to borrow the money that saved her husband's life, and now the man she borrowed from threatens to expose her. When the secret comes out she has to ask what her marriage, and her own life, have really rested on, in R. Farquharson Sharp's English translation of Ibsen's play.
3 chapters · About 115 minutes of published text
A escrava Isaura: romance
By Bernardo Guimarães
A Escrava Isaura (Portuguese pronunciation: [a (i)ʃˈkɾavɐ iˈzawɾɐ], Isaura, The Slave Girl) is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Guimarães. It was first published in 1875 by Casa Garnier publishers in Rio de Janeiro. With this novel, Bernardo Guimarães became very famous throughout that country, even said to be admired by Brazil's last Emperor Dom Pedro II. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
22 chapters · About 224 minutes of published text
A Falência
By Júlia Lopes de Almeida
A merchant of Rio de Janeiro, his household and his wife are at the centre of Júlia Lopes de Almeida's best-known novel, a study of money, pride and a family's way of living in the capital at the turn of the century. Domestic scenes and the world of trade run side by side.
25 chapters · About 315 minutes of published text
A Filha do Arcediago
By Camilo Castelo Branco
The book opens in Porto in 1815 with a sweating cloth merchant, António José da Silva, pacing his shop on a stifling August day, and spreads from there into a comic story of the town's families and of the daughter of an archdeacon. An early Camilo novel, full of crowded rooms and sudden pathos. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
29 chapters · About 325 minutes of published text
A Guerrilha de Frei Simão
By Alberto Pimentel
A historical romance of the Peninsular War set in the family of the Vasconcelos of Cesár, a good old house of northern Portugal, whose sons and daughters are caught between the French invasion and a friar who raises a band of guerrillas. Pimentel mixes real events with fiction.
28 chapters · About 300 minutes of published text
A Gyurkovics-lányok
By Ferenc Herczeg
A Gyurkovics-lányok (lit. 'The Gyurkovics Girls') is an 1893 novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg. In the novel, a Hungarian mother marries off her seven daughters in clever ways. The book explores "the native traditions... concerning matrimony as the single career open to women, the strict seniority rights to marriage in a family of many daughters, and the code of honor compelling a youth to marry the girl with whom he has been caught in a flirtation".
9 chapters · About 83 minutes of published text
A Illustre Casa de Ramires
By Eça de Queirós
Gonçalo Mendes Ramires, last of an ancient noble house, is writing a novella about his heroic medieval ancestors while he struggles with debts, local politics and his own weak character. Eça de Queirós sets the two stories side by side, the old glory and the modern heir. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
12 chapters · About 453 minutes of published text
A Intrusa
By Júlia Lopes de Almeida
On a rainy night in Rio de Janeiro four friends talk in the house of the lawyer Argemiro Cláudio at Cosme Velho, and the book follows his family afterwards. Júlia Lopes de Almeida writes a domestic novel about a household disturbed by someone who does not belong.
21 chapters · About 234 minutes of published text
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
By Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Center of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel written by French novelist Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition. Professor Otto Lidenbrock is the tale's central figure, an eccentric German scientist who decodes a message from a 16th century Icelandic alchemist who claims to have reached to the very center of the earth via volcanic tubes in the crater of the celebrated inactive Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull.
44 chapters · About 370 minutes of published text
A láthatatlan ember: Regény
By Géza Gárdonyi
Zéta, a young Greek slave, comes with his master to the court of Attila and stays among the Huns. Told in his own voice, the novel follows his love for a Hun noblewoman and the life of Attila's camp as the Hun empire reaches its height.
66 chapters · About 312 minutes of published text
A Little Princess: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess is a work by British-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, presented as a 1888 novella, a 1902 play and a 1905 children's novel. All three versions tell the story of Sara Crewe, a wealthy young girl and the prize student of a private London boarding school who is reduced to poverty and forced to endure the life of a servant under the school's cruel headmistress.
19 chapters · About 288 minutes of published text
A Mãe
By Maksim Gorky (translated by Augusto de Lacerda and Serge Persky)
A Portuguese translation of Maxim Gorky's Mother. Pelagueya Vlassova, the downtrodden widow of a factory worker, watches her son Pavel become a revolutionary and slowly takes up his cause herself.
59 chapters · About 470 minutes of published text
A Mão e a Luva
By Machado de Assis
A young orphan, Guiomar, is raised in the house of her rich godmother in Rio de Janeiro and soon has three suitors of very different temper, each of whom thinks he is the one she should choose. Machado de Assis's second novel is a quiet comedy of calculation and feeling in which the title's hand and glove stand for a match of character.
19 chapters · About 149 minutes of published text