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• Estrelas Funestas

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  In Lisbon in 1778 a rich young nobleman of Porto, Gonçalo Malafaya, spends money for show among the court's gallants while promised since boyhood to his cousin, D. Maria das Dores. Camilo's romance of ill stars carries a family from the glitter of the capital back to its provincial houses.

  20 chapters · About 205 minutes of published text

• Estrelas Propícias

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  Opening on a house by the River Lima near Viana do Castelo, half ancient and half whitewashed, Camilo tells a story of a family and a love in the Minho, under a title that promises kinder stars than those of his Estrelas Funestas.

  20 chapters · About 191 minutes of published text

• Ethan Frome

  By Edith Wharton

  Ethan Frome is a 1911 novella by American author Edith Wharton. It details the story of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and the tragedies that result from the ensuing love triangle. The novel has been adapted into a film of the same name. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  9 chapters · About 131 minutes of published text

• Eurico, o presbytero

  By Alexandre Herculano

  Eurico, a Visigothic warrior who became a priest after he was refused the woman he loved, lives in retreat as the Moorish invasion of 711 sweeps into the Iberian peninsula. Alexandre Herculano's historical romance follows him back into battle. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

  19 chapters · About 247 minutes of published text

• Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

  By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  On the eve of their wedding, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse are parted when the British deport the Acadian farmers of Grand-Pré in 1755. She spends her life searching for him across America, and finds him only when he is dying. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  2 chapters · About 67 minutes of published text

• Everyman, with Other Interludes and Miracle Plays

  By Anonymous

  The morality play Everyman, in which Death summons an ordinary man to his reckoning and all his friends and goods fall away except Good Deeds, stands first in a collection of English religious plays. The rest include the Chester Deluge and Abraham and Isaac, the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play and Harrowing of Hell, and John Bale's God's Promises. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  10 chapters · About 194 minutes of published text

• Fabeloj de Andersen

  By H. C. Andersen (translated by Frederik Skeel-Giørling)

  Five of Hans Christian Andersen's best-loved fairy tales in Frederik Skeel-Giørling's 1909 Esperanto translation. A tin soldier with one leg, a mother who follows Death to win back her child, a soldier with a witch's tinderbox, a princess tested with a pea and a girl selling matches in the snow on New Year's Eve each have a tale of their own.

  5 chapters · About 36 minutes of published text

• Far from the Madding Crowd

  By Thomas Hardy

  Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy; and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  57 chapters · About 590 minutes of published text

• Faraon

  By Bolesław Prus

  The young prince Ramses, heir to the Egyptian throne in the eleventh century BC, wants to reform the kingdom and to break the power of the priests who hold the wealth and the secrets of the land. Prus's only historical novel follows his rise as Pharaoh and the slow trap of a priesthood older than the throne. 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.

  69 chapters · About 878 minutes of published text

• Fausto Bragia, e altre novelle

  By Luigi Capuana

  The title story follows Fausto Bragia through the sleepless night after a long-desired love affair begins, and through what it costs him. Eleven more stories by a master of Italian verismo range from comedy, as in the May Day of Doctor Piccottini, to secret dramas and an evocation of the dead.

  12 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text

• Fekete gyémántok

  By Mór Jókai

  Iván Berend, a scholar and engineer, works his coal mines in a remote valley and treats his miners fairly, while financiers in Vienna and Pest dream up a railway and mining company built on speculation. Jókai sets his upright hero against the bankers and high society, with a poor girl, Evila, at the centre of his heart. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  45 chapters · About 556 minutes of published text

• Five Weeks in a Balloon: Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen

  By Jules Verne

  Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's interest through passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets. 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 213 minutes of published text

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

  By Edwin Abbott Abbott

  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

  22 chapters · About 142 minutes of published text

• Folkungaträdet

  By Verner von Heidenstam

  In heathen Östergötland, the rich farmer Folke Filbyter builds up land and power and then loses his grandson, and the search for the boy sets a family on its path from peasants to kings. Verner von Heidenstam's two linked novels follow the Folkungs over generations, through the age of the earls of Bjälbo to the struggles between the brothers who ruled medieval Sweden. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

  37 chapters · About 567 minutes of published text

• Forse che sì forse che no

  By Gabriele D'Annunzio

  Forse che sì forse che no (Maybe Yes, Maybe No) is a novel published in 1910 by Gabriele D'Annunzio. As all of D'Annunzio's novels, Forse che sì forse che no partially echoes one of D'Annunzio's own experiences. In particular, this novel draws on D'Annunzio's summer of "erotic frenzy with Donatella [Cross]." He originally planned to title the novel Vertigine, meaning 'vertigo', and even attempted to change Forse che sì forse che no since he was made aware that its rhythm matched the Neapolitan popular song Funiculì, Funiculà. This book is considered to be the "last great D'Annunzian novel." This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

  3 chapters · About 450 minutes of published text

• Förvillelser

  By Hjalmar Söderberg

  Tomas Weber, a medical student in Stockholm in the 1890s, drifts between a respectable girl and a pretty shop assistant, and between the money he owes and the money he wants. Hjalmar Söderberg's first novel is a cool, ironic portrait of a young man's wanderings in love and morals in the city. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  15 chapters · About 176 minutes of published text

• Four square Jane

  By Edgar Wallace

  Edgar Wallace's Four Square Jane, 1929, follows a masked thief who steals from the dishonest and sends the loot to the poor. Police and press chase her through London. Light, quick and full of Wallace's favourite devices. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  9 chapters · About 149 minutes of published text

• Fra Mindebo: Jyske Folkeæventyr

  By Evald Tang Kristensen

  Twenty-nine folk tales gathered from storytellers in Jutland by the great Danish folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen. Princesses and trolls, clever tailors and foolish priests, magic gifts and a fox that is outwitted, told in the plain voice of the country people who passed them on. A short afterword by the collector closes the book.

  30 chapters · About 184 minutes of published text

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

  By Mary Shelley

  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in a French translation published in Paris in 1821.

  28 chapters · About 326 minutes of published text

• Frits Millioen en zijne vrienden

  By A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint

  A boy saddled by his schoolmates with the mocking nickname Millioen grows up with a circle of friends in a Dutch town. Bosboom-Toussaint follows Frits and his companions from catechism class into adult life, as talent, money and ambition pull them in different directions.

  26 chapters · About 655 minutes of published text

• Fröken Liwin

  By Marika Stiernstedt

  At a meeting of a Stockholm women's charity, the overlooked Miss Liwin stands up to say something nobody wants to hear, and the narrator lets us know she carries a hidden story of her own. Marika Stiernstedt's novel traces a mother and a daughter kept apart by the shame that once fell on unmarried mothers, and the foster home between them. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  33 chapters · About 305 minutes of published text

• From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon

  By Jules Verne

  From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people – the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet – in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon. There are two modern unabridged English translations by Walter James Miller (1978) and Frederick Paul Walter (2010).

  51 chapters · About 395 minutes of published text

• Fru Marie Grubbe: Interieurer fra det syttende Aarhundrede

  By J. P. Jacobsen

  Marie Grubbe, a real Danish noblewoman of the seventeenth century, grows up hungry for a great love and a great life. Married young to Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, the king's glamorous illegitimate son, she leaves him, marries again and keeps falling down the social ladder in search of something she can believe in. J. P. Jacobsen's richly detailed historical novel follows her across fifty years, from a manor garden to a ferry inn. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text.

  18 chapters · About 325 minutes of published text

• Gekken

  By Jacobus van Looy

  Johan, a Dutch painter staying at a hotel in Tangier, sets out with his sketching gear among the European guests and the life of the town. The day builds toward the procession of a religious brotherhood whose ecstatic dancers the foreigners call the madmen, rendered in van Looy's dense, painterly prose. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  7 chapters · About 209 minutes of published text