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A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Four young lovers flee into a wood outside Athens, where the quarrelling king and queen of the fairies are at work and a love potion in the wrong hands tangles everyone's affections. Nearby a company of amateur actors rehearses a play for the Duke's wedding, and its weaver, Bottom, wakes up with a donkey's head.
5 chapters · About 74 minutes of published text
A Moreninha
By Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
A Moreninha is the first urban novel in Brazilian literature. This novel was written by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820–1882), and it was first published in 1844 (the same year the author graduated in medicine) in the format of newspaper serials and later it was adapted to the book format. It was adapted into films in A Moreninha (1915), A Moreninha (1970) and another film with the performance of Cacilda Becker, Bibi Ferreira and Tito Fleury directed by Miroel Silveira began to be recorded in 1945, but was not completed, and into soap operas in A Moreninha (1965) and A Moreninha (1975). 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 206 minutes of published text
A Morgadinha dos Cannaviaes: (Chronica da aldeia)
By Júlio Dinis
Henrique de Souselas, a jaded young man from Lisbon, goes to a village in northern Portugal to recover his health and is drawn into its quarrels, elections and loves, and into the company of the young heiress of Canaviais. A warm chronicle of village life by Júlio Dinis.
34 chapters · About 633 minutes of published text
A Neta do Arcediago
By Camilo Castelo Branco
The novel opens in Lisbon in February 1838, outside the São Carlos theatre, as Luís da Cunha e Faro hands a lady down from a carriage; the narrator promises to explain who each of them is. A tale of blood, inheritance and a secret family history in Camilo's romantic manner.
19 chapters · About 238 minutes of published text
A Normalista
By Adolfo Caminha
Maria do Carmo, a young woman training as a teacher in Fortaleza, lives under the roof of her godfather, a clerk named João da Mata, and has a head full of novels and marriage. Adolfo Caminha's novel of 1893 is a bitter, close picture of provincial society in the north-east of Brazil. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
15 chapters · About 264 minutes of published text
A pair of blue eyes
By Thomas Hardy
A Pair of Blue Eyes is English author Thomas Hardy's third published novel and the first to be serialised, and also the first to bear his name. It is ultimately a tragic story of a rector's daughter in a Wessex village who is courted by multiple men. Critics have generally classified it among Hardy's lesser works. He later placed it in the "Romances and Fantasies" category of his collected fiction.
40 chapters · About 564 minutes of published text
A Pál-utcai fiúk: Regény kis diákok számára
By Ferenc Molnár
Two gangs of Budapest schoolboys go to war over an empty timber yard, the only open ground the Pál Street boys have to play on. Molnár follows the boys' club, its ranks and loyalties, and above all the smallest of them, the private Nemecsek, through a few weeks of a city winter.
10 chapters · About 189 minutes of published text
A Pata da Gazela
By José de Alencar
A light romance of Rio de Janeiro society that begins with two fashionable young women in a carriage on the Rua da Quitanda. The title is the nickname of a small foot, the clue that sets a young man pursuing its owner through the drawing rooms of the city.
19 chapters · About 150 minutes of published text
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second book and first novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). 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.
5 chapters · About 369 minutes of published text
A princess of Mars
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February–July, 1912. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment.
28 chapters · About 286 minutes of published text
A Queda d'um Anjo
By Camilo Castelo Branco
Calisto Elói de Silos e Benevides de Barbuda, a grandly spoken gentleman of a country town in the north, is elected to Parliament and goes to Lisbon. Camilo's comic satire follows the provincial innocent through the city's drawing rooms, politics and temptations, with the tone of a gentle fall from grace.
36 chapters · About 216 minutes of published text
A Relíquia
By Eça de Queirós
Teodorico Raposo hopes to inherit the fortune of his fanatically pious aunt, so he plays the devout nephew while living as he pleases. Sent to the Holy Land to bring her back a sacred relic, he has an extraordinary journey, which he recounts with comic frankness. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
5 chapters · About 351 minutes of published text
A Room with a View
By E. M. Forster
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
20 chapters · About 288 minutes of published text
A Shropshire Lad
By A. E. Housman
Sixty-three short poems of A. E. Housman's 1896 volume mourn young men who die early, soldiers, ploughboys and lovers, in the setting of the Shropshire hills and the market towns. They include 'Loveliest of trees', 'To an Athlete Dying Young' and 'Is my team ploughing'.
63 chapters · About 36 minutes of published text
A Study in Scarlet
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is a detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in 1887, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would go on to become one of the most well-known detective duos in literature. 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 188 minutes of published text
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. 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 589 minutes of published text
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
By Charles Reade
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of the Day is an 1871 sensation novel by Charles Reade. It first appeared serially in Cassell's Magazine in England from March 4 to August 26, 1871. Similar to 1866's Griffith Gaunt, the novel received negative reviews in the English press due to its content, which included extramarital relations and a courtesan, but this also helped increase sales of Reade's works in America. The Times told parents to keep the book away from their daughters. Reade responded by noting that stories in their paper inspired many of his works, and it was hypocritical to complain about the same type of content they use to sell papers. 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 581 minutes of published text
A Victor of Salamis
By William Stearns Davis
Through the eyes of a young Athenian, the Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes unfolds, from Thermopylae to the great sea battle at Salamis. William Stearns Davis's 1907 novel is a vivid, well-researched adventure. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
41 chapters · About 531 minutes of published text
A Woman of No Importance
By Oscar Wilde
At a country house party, the young Gerald Arbuthnot is offered a post by the cynical Lord Illingworth, who turns out to be tied to a secret in the past of Gerald's mother. Society epigrams give way to a moral reckoning.
4 chapters · About 96 minutes of published text
Abafi: regény
By Miklós Jósika
Olivér Abafi, a young Transylvanian nobleman wasting his life in idleness and dissipation, is changed by love and by service to Prince Zsigmond Báthory in the 1590s. One of the first Hungarian historical novels, written in the manner of Walter Scott.
34 chapters · About 243 minutes of published text
Abel Sánchez
By Miguel de Unamuno
Joaquín Monegro, a gloomy doctor, nurses a lifelong hatred for his friend Abel Sánchez, a charming painter who wins everything he touches. Unamuno retells the story of Cain and Abel in a modern city and gives the envious brother a diary to speak in.
38 chapters · About 127 minutes of published text
Abu-Seif: Äventyrsroman från Röda Havet och Mekka
By Karl May (translated by Kurt Lange)
Kara Ben Nemsi and his loyal servant Hadschi Halef Omar sail the Red Sea and fall foul of Abu-Seif, a pirate who preys on its coasts, an adventure that takes them toward the forbidden city of Mecca. A Karl May adventure in Kurt Lange's Swedish translation, full of captures, escapes and desert chases. 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 194 minutes of published text
Ad astra
By Eliza Orzeszkowa
Orzeszkowa's novel of 1891 opens with a long hymn to the primeval forest and the pine-wood estate of Bór-Lada, and carries its people from there through the loves and ambitions of life in the Lithuanian countryside. Its title, 'to the stars', names the heights its characters aim at.
35 chapters · About 398 minutes of published text
Ädelt vildt: En familjehistoria
By Elisabeth Kuylenstierna-Wenster
An old countess takes her eighteen-year-old granddaughter on an autumn journey to the castle of Bragehall, where her childhood friend Count Haqvin Brage lies dying with his grandson at his side, and where she has her own reasons for bringing the girl. Elisabeth Kuylenstierna-Wenster's family story follows the noble line of Bragehall, its debts and its loves.
17 chapters · About 290 minutes of published text