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• Adolphe

  By Benjamin Constant

  Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large. The book eschews all conventional descriptions of exteriors for the sake of detailed accounts of feelings and states of mind.

  10 chapters · About 115 minutes of published text

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  By Mark Twain

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. It is commonly named among the Great American Novels, and it is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. Being the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other later Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. 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 477 minutes of published text

• Agawan ng Dangal

  By Fausta Cortes

  On a gloomy January night in the Manila district of Paco, a band of young men serenades the beautiful Dolores, and among them the singer Artemyo and his sly friend Beteng begin a rivalry for her. Over ten short chapters the courtship turns into a contest over a woman's good name and the honour of everyone around her. A 1914 novel from the Kami Naman writers' circle, printed with a critic's open letter to the author. 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 91 minutes of published text

• Agnes

  By Minna Canth

  The narrator, a busy wife and mother in a provincial town, has adored Agnes since their school days for her eyes, her elegance and her freedom. When Agnes comes back, chic and admired, the two women's very different lives are set side by side, and the narrator begins to see what her idol's independence costs. A short novel on women's choices by the leading Finnish realist. 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 72 minutes of published text

• Agulha em Palheiro

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  Camilo begins with an anecdote about the shoemaker of the poet Bocage in Lisbon in 1803 and goes on to a novel of letters and lives in the early nineteenth century. The title, a needle in a haystack, is the search at the heart of it.

  21 chapters · About 189 minutes of published text

• Aikansa lapsipuoli

  By Santeri Ivalo

  Juuso, a young graduate with large ideals and no head for business, leaves his country lodgings by tar boat for the town and the career everyone expects of him. Beside his practical friend Heikki, who knows how to get on, he finds that a dreamer can be a stepchild of his own time. Ivalo's novel follows them both through love, work and the compromises of the 1890s. 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 253 minutes of published text

• Aku Ini Binatang Jalang

  By Chairil Anwar

  Chairil Anwar's poems of 1942 to 1949, the verse that broke with the old Malay forms and gave Indonesian its modern voice, from 'Nisan' and 'Aku' to 'Krawang-Bekasi'. The collection was assembled in 1986 from the poet's manuscripts, so a poem sometimes appears in two versions.

  82 chapters · About 24 minutes of published text

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  By Lewis Carroll

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a little girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the original edition.

  12 chapters · About 115 minutes of published text

• Álomvilág: Elbeszélések

  By Zoltán Ambrus

  Some thirty stories by Zoltán Ambrus, many of them fanciful or ironic: tales set in ancient Nineveh, a lovesick gladiator, Casanova, and a medieval warlord let loose in a modern gasworks, alongside sketches of turn-of-the-century Budapest life.

  29 chapters · About 317 minutes of published text

• Amor Crioulo: vida argentina

  By Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho

  A novel of Argentine life by the Portuguese naturalist Abel Botelho, written while he served as a diplomat in Buenos Aires. It follows a love affair in the creole society of the city, whose manners, money and passions it observes closely.

  10 chapters · About 342 minutes of published text

• Amor de Perdição: Memorias d'uma familia

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  Simão Botelho and Teresa de Albuquerque, children of two feuding families in Viseu, fall in love across the street between their houses. Camilo Castelo Branco's most famous novel, told as the story of one of the author's own relatives, follows their passion against fathers, convents and the law.

  20 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text

• Amor de Salvação

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  A man ruined by his passion for a woman who married another is slowly drawn back towards a decent life by a love of a different kind. Camilo Castelo Branco frames the tale as a confession heard from an old friend, set in the Portugal of the mid nineteenth century.

  23 chapters · About 212 minutes of published text

• An Enemy of the People

  By Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)

  Dr Stockmann finds that the baths on which his town's prosperity depends are poisoned, and expects to be thanked for saying so. Instead the newspaper, the mayor, who is his brother, and the townspeople turn on him.

  5 chapters · About 137 minutes of published text

• An Ideal Husband

  By Oscar Wilde

  Sir Robert Chiltern, a respected politician with a spotless public name, is blackmailed by Mrs Cheveley over a secret that built his fortune. His friend Lord Goring, a famous idler, takes up the matter with a wit that surprises everyone.

  4 chapters · About 134 minutes of published text

• An Old Man's Love

  By Anthony Trollope

  Anthony Trollope's short novel of 1884 about an elderly man who falls in love with a young woman and the family and friends who do not quite approve. A quiet study of age, regret and affection. Mature and wry. 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 321 minutes of published text

• Anaconda

  By Horacio Quiroga

  The snakes of the jungle of Misiones hold a congress to stop the human hunters, with a giant anaconda as their champion. Quiroga's story is told from the snakes' point of view, in an adventure that mixes natural history and fable.

  11 chapters · About 44 minutes of published text

• Ang "Filibusterismo" (Karugtóng ng Noli Me Tangere)

  By José Rizal (translated by Patricio Mariano)

  Thirteen years after the events of Noli Me Tangere, a rich and secretive jeweller called Simoun travels up the Pasig on the steamer Tabò and makes himself indispensable to the men who rule the colony. While students campaign for an academy of Castilian and a farmer loses his land to the friars, Simoun pursues a hidden purpose of his own. Rizal's darker sequel, in the Tagalog translation of Patricio Mariano. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  39 chapters · About 497 minutes of published text

• Ang Bagong Robinson (Tomo 1)

  By Joachim Heinrich Campe (translated by Tomás de Iriarte and Joaquín Tuason)

  A father in a house near Hamburg tells his children a tale for each evening, the story of a young man cast away on a desert island who must make everything he needs with his own hands. Over thirteen evenings the first volume follows the shipwreck and the first years of toil, with the children's questions interrupting the telling. Campe's moral retelling of Robinson Crusoe, in the Tagalog of Iriarte and Tuason. 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 192 minutes of published text

• Ang Mananayaw

  By Rosauro Almario

  Pati is a dancer of Manila's dance halls, Sawî a shy student from the provinces and Tamád an idler who hunts the bird that Pati has marked for her net. Told in a few brisk chapters and an ending on a stormy night, the short novel follows the three through money, desire and revenge. By Rosauro Almario, from the Aklatang Bayan series.

  5 chapters · About 29 minutes of published text

• Ang Pag-ibig ng Layas

  By Jose N. Sevilla

  Selmo, Maneng and Orang are caught in a tangle of promises, jealousy and wounded pride that leads from a country outing to a ruined home. Twenty-nine short chapters follow a runaway heart through courtship, a lonely marriage and eight years of remorse. A Tagalog novel of 1918 by José N. Sevilla.

  29 chapters · About 160 minutes of published text

• Ángel Guerra

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Ángel Guerra, a restless political schemer, falls for the pious Leré and follows her into the religious fervour of Toledo, turning from revolutionary to would-be priest. One of Galdós's longest novels, it follows a man looking for love and for God at once. 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.

  127 chapters · About 1,080 minutes of published text

• Anielka

  By Bolesław Prus

  Anielka is a girl growing up on a prosperous country estate, taught by her governess, while her little brother Józio plays beside their mother. Prus's early short novel follows the child through the seasons of the village and the first shadows that fall on her sheltered world. 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 211 minutes of published text

• Anna Fleming: Historiallinen romaani

  By Santeri Ivalo

  In the 1590s Finland is held for the Swedish crown by the harsh marshal Klaus Fleming, hated by the peasants he taxes and quarters soldiers on. His daughter Anna comes of age amid noble weddings, court quarrels and the rising anger of the countryside. Ivalo's historical novel follows her loyalties and her heart through the years that led to the Club War.

  15 chapters · About 382 minutes of published text

• Anna Karenina

  By Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

  Anna Karenina is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Often considered to be among the greatest works of world literature, Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1875 to 1877, all but the last part appearing in the periodical The Russian Messenger. By the time he was finishing up the last installments, Tolstoy was in an anguished state of mind having come to hate it but finished it unwillingly. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

  239 chapters · About 1,518 minutes of published text