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El conde Lucanor
By Infante of Castile Juan Manuel
The young Count Lucanor brings his problems to his counsellor Patronio, who answers each one with a story drawn from fable, history or legend, ending with a moral in verse. Written in the 1330s by Don Juan Manuel, it is one of the first great books of prose fiction in Castilian.
55 chapters · About 343 minutes of published text
El doctor Centeno
By Benito Pérez Galdós
Felipe Centeno, a ragged boy of Madrid who longs to become a doctor, passes through the hands of a string of eccentric masters and a ramshackle school. Galdós's novel is a comic and tender picture of education, poverty and ambition in the capital of the 1860s.
58 chapters · About 493 minutes of published text
El escándalo
By Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Fabián Conde, a young man of Madrid with a name for scandal, tells his confessor the true story of his life, his friend the Jesuit Padre Manrique and the woman he loves. Alarcón's moral drama circles a man's honour and what the world is willing to believe about him.
9 chapters · About 412 minutes of published text
El Filibusterismo (Continuación del Noli me tángere)
By José Rizal
El Filibusterismo (transl. The filibusterism; The Subversive or The Subversion, as in the Locsín English translation, are also possible translations), also known by its alternative English title The Reign of Greed, is the second novel written by Philippine national hero José Rizal. It is the sequel to Noli Me Tángere and, like the first book, was written in Spanish. It was first published in 1891 in Ghent.
39 chapters · About 449 minutes of published text
El idilio de un enfermo
By Armando Palacio Valdés
A young man from Madrid in poor health is sent to recover in a village in the Asturian mountains, where he falls in love with a country girl. The idyll he imagines meets the hard interests of village life. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
17 chapters · About 213 minutes of published text
El la "Camera obscura"
By Hildebrand (translated by Hendrik Coenraad Mees)
Five pieces from Hildebrand's Camera Obscura, the much-loved book of Dutch sketches by Nicolaas Beets, in H. C. Mees's Esperanto translation. A young observer's eye moves from a village hunter and an old almshouse resident telling his life story to the heat, social calls and small vanities of Dutch town life in the 1830s.
5 chapters · About 67 minutes of published text
El meu amic Pellini i altres contes
By Prudenci Bertrana
Fourteen stories by Prudenci Bertrana, opening with the long tale of his friend Pellini and the story of a great farmhouse and its master, Serradell. Rural sketches, a comic expedition against a famous rabbit, a smoker's diary and other pieces, most of them light and wry. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
14 chapters · About 145 minutes of published text
El sombrero de tres picos
By Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
A lecherous old corregidor tries to seduce the miller's pretty wife in an Andalusian village, and the miller takes his revenge in kind. Alarcón's comic tale is retold from an old ballad and is the source of Falla's ballet.
36 chapters · About 104 minutes of published text
Eli Makower
By Eliza Orzeszkowa
A two-volume novel of Polish and Jewish life by Orzeszkowa, who made the question of how the two peoples could live together one of her great subjects. It opens on an ageing woman whose proud, brilliant youth has long gone, and goes back from her to the family of the title. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
24 chapters · About 677 minutes of published text
Eline Vere: Een Haagsche roman
By Louis Couperus
Eline Vere, young, beautiful and well off, lives with her married sister in The Hague and drifts through a round of dinners, soirees and amateur theatricals. Restless and easily moved, she cannot settle on a life or a love, and Couperus follows her moods against a crowded picture of Hague society. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
36 chapters · About 793 minutes of published text
Eloisa: or, A series of original letters
By Jean-Jacques Rousseau (translated by W. Kenrick)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1761 novel in letters tells of Julie, a Swiss nobleman's daughter, and her tutor Saint-Preux, whom she may not marry. A reader finds a long epistolary romance of passion and duty. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
163 chapters · About 1,333 minutes of published text
Els Herois
By Prudenci Bertrana
Six tales of the unlikely heroes of the Girona countryside: a poor wretch said to be too worthless even for the devil, a marsh guide who knows every duck pond, a justice of the peace and his prized mare, a farmer's wife on her way to market, and others. Bertrana writes about them with affection, earthy humour and a keen eye for rural life. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
6 chapters · About 124 minutes of published text
Els sots feréstechs
By Raimón Casellas
Raimon Casellas tells of a remote mountain parish through twenty short chapters, among them a locked church, a new rector, a kingdom of the dead and a nightmare. A dark, folkloric novel of a village where faith, fear and old family curses mix.
20 chapters · About 186 minutes of published text
Elsa
By Teuvo Pakkala
Elsa grows up in a poor family on the edge of a northern town, where winter means hunger and her mother puts her faith in God and luck. With her friend Mari she lives on borrowed romances and dreams of the love they promise, until her own life begins to test those dreams. Pakkala's novel is a realist portrait of poverty and girlhood.
16 chapters · About 224 minutes of published text
Emma
By Jane Austen
Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional Surrey village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, although the title page is dated 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
55 chapters · About 684 minutes of published text
En Pere i altres contes
By Claudi Planas i Font
Nineteen short stories and sketches of Catalan country and coastal life: ploughing at dawn, a gale that sweeps through a village, a storm at sea, a drawing class remembered from school, an old man by the new road. Planas i Font catches small lives and passing moments in a lyrical, impressionistic prose.
19 chapters · About 141 minutes of published text
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
By John Keats
In Keats's long poem the shepherd prince Endymion dreams of a goddess he loves, the moon, and wanders over the earth, under the sea and through the air to find her. It opens 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' and is told in four books of couplets.
4 chapters · About 131 minutes of published text
English Fairy Tales
By Anonymous
Joseph Jacobs's 1890 collection of English tales, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Tom Tit Tot and The Three Little Pigs. Retold in the spoken English of the villages where they were found. The best-loved gathering of English folk tales. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
43 chapters · About 257 minutes of published text
Entre naranjos
By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Rafael Brull, a young Valencian politician, falls in love with the opera singer Leonora, an older woman with a past, and the two follow the passion across Europe. Blasco Ibáñez's romantic novel sets the love among the orange groves of the Valencian countryside.
16 chapters · About 369 minutes of published text
Eredeti népmesék
By László Arany
Hungarian folk tales collected by László Arany in the 1860s: blind kings, devils, clever girls, the hero Fehérlófia and tiny Babszem Jankó, ending with a set of riddles and their answers.
30 chapters · About 225 minutes of published text
Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
By Samuel Butler
Erewhon, or Over the Range (ERR-eh-hwon) is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society. Its name is an anagram of the word “nowhere”, with the same meaning as “utopia” (nowhere).
30 chapters · About 365 minutes of published text
Esau e Jacob
By Machado de Assis
Esau and Jacob is a Machado de Assis novel launched in 1904, four years before his death, by Editora Garnier, and, according to most critics, in full literary heyday, after writing, in 1899, Dom Casmurro, the most famous from his books. Esaú e Jacó stand out for consolidating a "smooth mastery" in the domain of the plot. Machado takes advantage of the occasional eccentricity in a text that leaves behind traces of picaresque and embarks on a realism that resumes the melancholy and lyricism that had begun in the first phase of his literary production. Highlighted are the characters very close to real life.
120 chapters · About 306 minutes of published text
Escenas de la vida pagesa
By Joaquim Riera i Bertran
Thirteen scenes and tales of country life by Joaquim Riera i Bertran, from a village mill and a mayor's dining room to popular and historical legends. Quarrels, slanders, farewells and a sardana player's memoirs show Catalan peasant life in the late nineteenth century.
13 chapters · About 147 minutes of published text
Esik a hó: Novellák
By Frigyes Karinthy
Fifteen early stories by Frigyes Karinthy, better known for his parodies: lyrical and wry pieces about love, art and city life, from a bunch of flowers to a merry-go-round and a pilot.
15 chapters · About 111 minutes of published text