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Рудин
By Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
A brilliant talker arrives at a country house and wins everyone's admiration, especially a young woman who falls in love with him. When she asks him to act, Rudin turns out to be unable, in Turgenev's first novel. 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 163 minutes of published text
Слепой музыкант
By автор В. Г. Короленко (1853—1921)
Pyotr, born blind into a Ukrainian landowner's family, grows up cherished by his mother and his uncle and finds his way through music. Korolenko's novel follows his struggle toward a life of his own, and toward other people's griefs.
9 chapters · About 157 minutes of published text
Смерть Ивана Ильича
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
Ivan Ilyich, a respectable judge, falls ill after a trivial accident and has to face the thought that his whole life has been wrongly spent. Tolstoy's novella follows his dying with merciless honesty.
12 chapters · About 77 minutes of published text
Тарас Бульба
By Николай Васильевич Гоголь
The old Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba brings his two sons to the Sich, the warrior brotherhood of the steppe, and rides with them against the Polish gentry. One son's love for a Polish girl and the other's loyalty to the cause end in a famous reckoning between father and sons. 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 163 minutes of published text
Хаджи-Мурат
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
The Avar chieftain Hadji Murat quarrels with the imam Shamil and defects to the Russians, hoping to rescue his family, and finds the court of Nicholas I no kinder. Tolstoy's last novel, written in his seventies, is a clear-eyed picture of empire and of a proud man caught between two powers.
25 chapters · About 156 minutes of published text
Человек в футляре
By Антон Павлович Чехов (1860—1904)
Belikov, a teacher of Greek, goes about in galoshes and wraps himself in rules and fears, and terrorises a whole town with his timidity. When he is nearly engaged, his colleagues' mockery lets loose a comedy with a sad end.
1 chapter · About 36 minutes of published text
Шинель
By Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Akaky Akakievich, a poor copying clerk, saves for years to have a new overcoat made, and it transforms him for a single evening before thieves take it. Gogol's tale of the little man crushed by the great city ends with a ghost who goes looking for coats.
1 chapter · About 44 minutes of published text
آب حیات
By محمد حسین آزاد
Muhammad Husain Azad traces Urdu poetry through successive generations, pairing accounts of the language's development with portraits of its poets. His five-period history runs from early figures such as Wali to the Delhi and Lucknow poets of the nineteenth century. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
40 chapters · About 782 minutes of published text
أخبار الحمقى والمغفلين
By ابن الجوزي
Ibn al-Jawzi, the Baghdad preacher and scholar who died in 1201, collected in twenty-four chapters the sayings and stories of fools, simpletons and the gullible, among them kings, judges, preachers and ordinary people. The anecdotes are short, dry and often funny, offered both as entertainment and as warning, and they are a rich store of medieval Arab humour. 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 153 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الأول
The first part of the Arabic Nights opens with King Shahriyar, who after a betrayal takes a new wife each evening and has her put to death at dawn, until the vizier's daughter Shahrazad begins a story she leaves unfinished. It carries the tales of the merchant and the jinni, the fisherman and the jinni, King Yunan and the sage Ruyan, and the Porter and the three ladies of Baghdad. The text is the Arabic of the medieval storytellers, as Wikisource's volunteers typed it. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
6 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الثالث
The third and longest part of the Arabic Nights runs from about the forty-second night into the second hundred, one short chapter to a night. It holds the tale of the two viziers and Anis al-Jalis, the merchant Ayyub with his son Ghanim and daughter Fitna, and the long romance of King Umar al-Nu'man and his sons Sharkan and Daw' al-Makan. This edition omits a short passage of the tale of the first eunuch that describes sexual acts involving children; the omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text.
88 chapters · About 289 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الثاني
The second part of the Arabic Nights takes up Shahrazad's storytelling from about the twentieth night, with the tale of the vizier Nur al-Din and his brother Shams al-Din and the story of the barber of Baghdad, each night's chapter ending as the dawn silences her. Wikisource's volunteers typed the text in the traditional Arabic recension, with the nights marked in the running prose.
23 chapters · About 102 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الرابع
The last part of the Arabic Nights as Wikisource has it opens with the tale of Ma'ruf the cobbler of Cairo and runs through the closing nights, near the thousandth and the thousand-and-first, where Shahrazad's long telling reaches its end. The nights are short chapters, each ending where the dawn interrupts her.
18 chapters · About 52 minutes of published text
اتالیق بی بی
By چودھری محمد علی ردولوی
Chaudhri Muhammad Ali Radaulvi's Ataliq Bibi (about 1923) is a set of fourteen humorous sketches adapted from Douglas Jerrold's Curtain Lectures, the nightly scoldings Mrs Caudle gives her husband, moved into an Urdu household. Each chapter is one evening's lecture, set off by a verse and a mishap such as a trip to the fair. 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 70 minutes of published text
اخلاق ہندی
By بہادر علی حسینی
Bahadur Ali Husaini's Indian Morals (1803) is a retelling in Urdu of a Persian book of fables, Mufarrih-ul-Qulub, made at Fort William College. Its animal tales and anecdotes teach right conduct, and its own title page calls it among the first Urdu books to be printed on a press. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
5 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text
ارمغانِ حجاز (اردو)
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Armughan-e-Hijaz ("The Gift of the Hijaz", 1938) appeared after Muhammad Iqbal's death, and this is its short Urdu part; the Persian part is a separate book on this shelf. It opens with poems such as "Iblis ki Majlis-e-Shura" (The Parliament of the Devil), continues with a section of quatrains, and closes with a notebook of verses in the voice of the Kashmiri dervish Mullazada Zaigham Lolabi, who laments the state of Kashmir and the Muslim world.
3 chapters · About 18 minutes of published text
ارمغانِ حجاز (فارسی)
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Armughan-e-Hijaz ("The Gift of the Hijaz", 1938) appeared after Muhammad Iqbal's death, and this is its Persian part; the Urdu part is a separate book on this shelf. It is made almost wholly of quatrains, framed as the offering of a pilgrim to the Hijaz, in five sections: in the presence of God, of the Prophet, of the community and of humanity, and a last address to his companions on the way. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
5 chapters · About 41 minutes of published text
اسرارِ خودی
By علامہ محمد اقبال
Asrar-e-Khudi ("The Secrets of the Self", 1915) is Muhammad Iqbal's first Persian book, a mathnavi in which he sets out his philosophy of the self (khudi): that a person grows strong through love, through setting and pursuing aims, and through three stages of training, obedience, self-control and divine vicegerency. Between its arguments it tells parables, among them the diamond and the coal and the sheikh and the Brahmin, and it attacks the teachings of self-effacement that Iqbal blamed for the weakness of the East. He wrote it in Persian to reach Muslims beyond India as well as within it, and it is the base on which the rest of his thought was built.
19 chapters · About 45 minutes of published text
الأجنحة المتكسرة
By جبران خليل جبران
Kahlil Gibran's first novel in Arabic, written in New York and published in 1912, is a short, lyrical story of love and sorrow in Beirut. A young man falls in love with Salma Karamy, the daughter of an old friend of his father's, in a city where wealth and the Church decide whom a girl may marry. Its eleven brief chapters made Gibran's name among readers of Arabic.
11 chapters · About 70 minutes of published text
الأرواح المتمردة
By جبران خليل جبران
Four stories confront the authority of clergy, custom, and wealth in Lebanese society. Gibran gives the rebels a lyrical voice and links their personal struggles to a demand for freedom. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
11 chapters · About 85 minutes of published text
النظرات
By مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti's Glances gathers the pieces he wrote for the Cairo press in the 1910s: moral essays and short sketches on poverty, charity, love and marriage, death and the follies of the age, set down in ornate, sentimental prose that a generation of Egyptians learned to read from. The pieces are short, and a good many of them are small stories. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
86 chapters · About 343 minutes of published text
انتخابِ کلامِ اکبر
By اکبر الہ آبادی
Akbar Allahabadi (1846–1921) was a judge and poet of Allahabad whose comic and satirical verse looks at the new schools, manners and rulers of colonial India. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 145 poems in all (69 ghazals, 8 nazms, 16 qitas, 49 quatrains, 3 poems of other forms).
5 chapters · About 62 minutes of published text
انتخابِ کلامِ حالی
By الطاف حسین حالی
Altaf Hussain Hali (1837–1914), of Panipat, was a poet and critic who became a leading voice of reform in Urdu, in nazms on national and social themes as well as in ghazals. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 58 poems in all (28 ghazals, 9 nazms, 18 quatrains, 3 poems of other forms).
4 chapters · About 52 minutes of published text
انتخابِ کلامِ داغ
By داغ دہلوی
Dagh Dehlvi (1831–1905) was a poet of Delhi who spent his later years in Hyderabad, and is known for ghazals in a polished, everyday Urdu. This book is a selection, not the complete diwan: it holds only the verse that volunteers have so far typed on Urdu Wikisource, 177 poems in all (174 ghazals, 2 qitas, 1 poem of another form).
3 chapters · About 123 minutes of published text