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• Innocencia

  By Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay Taunay

  Cirino, a travelling healer in the backlands of Mato Grosso, is called to treat Inocência, the daughter of a stern farmer who has already promised her to another man. Taunay's novel of the Brazilian interior is prized for its picture of rural life and speech. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  30 chapters · About 227 minutes of published text

• Insolación y Morriña (Dos historias amorosas)

  By Emilia Pardo Bazán

  Two short novels of love in Madrid. In the first, a well-born young widow is drawn into a reckless flirtation with a charming Andalusian during a sun-baked city festival; in the second, a homesick Galician girl goes into service with a Galician widow and her son. 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 362 minutes of published text

• Insula thesauraria

  By Robert Louis Stevenson (translated by Arcadius Avellanus)

  Stevenson's Treasure Island in the Latin of Arcadius Avellanus. Young Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead buccaneer's sea chest and sails for the island where Captain Flint buried his gold, with a crew that includes the one-legged cook Long John Silver.

  34 chapters · About 261 minutes of published text

• Io cerco moglie! Romanzo

  By Alfredo Panzini

  Cavalier Ginetto Sconer, a solid, self-satisfied former travelling salesman, decides it is time to take a wife and goes about it with the method of a man of business. His account of candidates, prospective in-laws, dinners and misadventures is a gentle satire of bourgeois Italy after the First World War.

  33 chapters · About 203 minutes of published text

• Iracema: com uma noticia biographica do auctor

  By José Martiniano de Alencar

  On the coast of Ceará in the first years of colonisation, Iracema, a young woman of the Tabajara people who keeps a sacred secret, falls in love with the Portuguese warrior Martim. José de Alencar tells their story in lyrical prose as a legend of the founding of Brazil.

  33 chapters · About 122 minutes of published text

• Isä Brownin yksinkertaisuus: Salapoliisikertomuksia

  By G. K. Chesterton (translated by Eino Palola)

  Thirteen cases for Father Brown, a small, shabby Catholic priest whose knowledge of human sin lets him solve crimes that baffle the police, while the master thief Flambeau and the Paris police chief Valentin cross his path. G. K. Chesterton's detective stories in Eino Palola's Finnish translation. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  13 chapters · About 286 minutes of published text

• Isa Pang Bayani

  By Juan Lauro Arsciwals

  On the morning of 29 June 1914 a crowd of tobacco-factory workers waits in the street at Azcárraga and Ilaya in Manila for news that will decide their livelihood, and one of them steps forward to lead. A short Tagalog tale of labour and solidarity in nine chapters, it won a prize from the Balintawak society in 1915. It is printed with a foreword by Carlos Ronquillo.

  9 chapters · About 45 minutes of published text

• Italian Popular Tales

  By Thomas Frederick Crane

  Thomas Frederick Crane's 1885 collection of Italian folk tales from many regions, with notes. Giants, clever youngest sons and talking animals fill its pages. A scholar's gathering that still reads like stories. 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 674 minutes of published text

• Ivanhoe

  By Walter Scott (translated by M. P. Lindo)

  In twelfth-century England, the disinherited knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades in disguise, to win back his father's favour, the Lady Rowena and his place beside King Richard. Saxons and Normans, Robin Hood's outlaws, a tournament at Ashby and the siege of a castle fill Scott's novel, here in M. P. Lindo's Dutch translation. 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 767 minutes of published text

• Ivanhoe; ossia, Il ritorno del Crociato

  By Walter Scott (translated by Gaetano Barbieri)

  In twelfth-century England the disinherited knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades while Saxons and Normans quarrel and Prince John schemes against his absent brother, King Richard. Scott's novel of tournaments, outlaws, sieges and Rebecca of York, in Gaetano Barbieri's Italian translation. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

  43 chapters · About 779 minutes of published text

• Ivanhoe: A Romance

  By Walter Scott

  Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. The Waverley novels are considered seminal to the genre of historical fiction, and Ivanhoe became by far the best-known entry in the whole cycle of nearly thirty books. 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.

  45 chapters · About 833 minutes of published text

• Jane Eyre

  By Charlotte Brontë

  Jane Eyre is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published in January 1848 by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  38 chapters · About 802 minutes of published text

• Japanese Fairy Tales

  By Yei Theodora Ozaki

  Yei Theodora Ozaki's 1908 retellings of Japanese tales, including Momotaro the peach boy and the tongue-cut sparrow. Demons, foxes and kind old couples fill the stories. A classic introduction to the folklore of Japan.

  18 chapters · About 304 minutes of published text

• Jeden miesiąc życia: utwory prozą

  By Ludwik Bruner

  Seven prose works by Ludwik Bruner, who wrote as Jan Sten. The title novella is a young Pole's record of a month in Paris, from December into January, written as letters and a diary, in which loneliness, money troubles and an infatuation put him to the test. The other pieces include Hamlet, Przysięgły (The Juror), Spotkanie (The Meeting) and Trzy dusze (Three Souls). This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

  7 chapters · About 134 minutes of published text

• Jenny: Roman

  By Sigrid Undset

  Jenny Winge, a young Norwegian painter, is living in Rome among a small circle of Scandinavian artists, set on making her own way in work and in love. When she lets herself be courted by Helge Gram, an earnest young scholar, she begins to measure what she wants against what is expected of a woman of her time. Sigrid Undset's first full-length novel. 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 445 minutes of published text

• Jermoła

  By Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

  In a backwater where the small gentry still live by the customs of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a world of tiny manors, market days and monthly newspapers, a story of country life takes shape. Kraszewski's tale of 1857, in twenty-two short chapters, is told with a gently ironic eye for the last of the old-fashioned men. 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 197 minutes of published text

• Josafat

  By Prudenci Bertrana

  Prudenci Bertrana's novel begins in the bell tower of the church of Santa Maria, entered through the baptismal chapel. In nine chapters it follows its title character through the closed world of a cathedral town and the pressures of faith and desire.

  9 chapters · About 77 minutes of published text

• Juha

  By Juhani Aho

  Juha is a novel by Finnish writer Juhani Aho, published in 1911. It is considered one of Aho's most important works: after its publication, Aho consolidated his role as the "national writer" of Finland. The novel is at once characterized as one of his most classical and most modern works. Although taking the form of an epic, Juha does not lack drama in its plot. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  17 chapters · About 141 minutes of published text

• Julius Caesar

  By William Shakespeare

  Brutus joins a conspiracy to stab Julius Caesar before he can make himself king of Rome. Mark Antony's funeral speech turns the crowd against the killers, and the conspirators are driven to defeat at Philippi.

  5 chapters · About 90 minutes of published text

• Just so stories

  By Rudyard Kipling

  Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories illustrate how animals acquired their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  12 chapters · About 125 minutes of published text

• Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland

  By Elias Lönnrot (translated by John Martin Crawford)

  Collected from Finnish singers by Elias Lönnrot, the Kalevala tells of the old magician Wainamoinen, the smith Ilmarinen, the wooing of the Maid of Pohja, and the forging, theft and loss of the Sampo, a mill of plenty. John Martin Crawford's English version of 1888 keeps the trochaic line of the Finnish. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

  52 chapters · About 547 minutes of published text

• Kampstories

  By C. Louis Leipoldt

  Eleven tales that Leipoldt told to the younger children at South African school camps and later sent out into the world unchanged. They range from a Bushman legend of a blind hunter and the stories of old Abdoel in his Cape Malay shop to clever animals, a naughty boy, a sorry ghost and the reasons why the sea weeps and where the rainbow comes from. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  11 chapters · About 155 minutes of published text

• Karavaani ja muita juttuja

  By Pentti Haanpää

  Nineteen stories from the backwoods of northern Finland, where loggers, drifters, smugglers and small farmers get by on hard work, bootleg liquor and dry wit. Haanpää writes about the poor without sentiment, in quick sketches that swing between comedy and bleakness. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  19 chapters · About 106 minutes of published text

• Kardinalens frieri: En fågelhistoria

  By Gene Stratton-Porter (translated by Ernst Lundquist)

  A male cardinal, the finest singer along an Indiana river, sets out in spring to find a mate and win her with his song, while hunters and the changing seasons threaten them both. Gene Stratton-Porter's short nature romance, here in Ernst Lundquist's Swedish translation, follows the birds through courtship and the making of a home.

  5 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text