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বিরাজ বৌ
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Biraj, a devoted wife in a village in Hooghly, keeps her husband Nilambar's house together while his easy nature and his debts wear it away. Sarat Chandra's novella of 1914 is a close look at a poor household and the strains of a marriage that has nothing to spare. 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 124 minutes of published text
বেতালপঞ্চবিংশতি
By ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর
King Vikramaditya is sent to a graveyard to bring away a corpse hanging from a tree, but the vampire that lives in it tells him a tale at each step of the way and ends it with a riddle that the king must answer. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Bengali prose of 1847, taken from the Hindi, was one of the books that fixed the language of modern Bengali narrative. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
27 chapters · About 113 minutes of published text
বৈকুণ্ঠের উইল
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Baikuntha Majumdar, a grocer in a Bengal village, has made his shop prosper against the odds and has taken his eldest son Gokul out of school to work in it. The will of the title and the brothers' quarrels over what is to be theirs make the story, a comedy of family life more than a tragedy, in Sarat Chandra's short novel of 1916. 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 69 minutes of published text
বৌ-ঠাকুরাণীর হাট
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
On a hot night in Jessore the crown prince Udayaditya sits at his window beside his wife Surama and wishes he had not been born a prince, while his father Pratapaditya, the proud Hindu ruler of the province in the days of Akbar, quarrels with his family and with the Mughal court. Tagore's novel of 1883, written when he was twenty-two, was his first, and he later drew a play from it. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
37 chapters · About 175 minutes of published text
মাধবীকঙ্কণ
By রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত
A historical romance set in the Bengal of Akbar's reign, when the Mughals were still subduing the Afghan chiefs of the delta. It opens on a summer evening on the bank of the Bhagirathi, where two boys and a girl are playing on the sand. It is an early Bengali novel by Romesh Chunder Dutt, the civil servant and historian, published in 1877. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
35 chapters · About 127 minutes of published text
মুচিরাম গুড়ের জীবনচরিত
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
The life of Muchiram Gur, a poor man's son of no talent who rises into the service of the government by flattery and luck, told as a mock biography. Bankim's short satire of 1884 is aimed at the new Bengali official class and its habit of climbing on those above.
14 chapters · About 28 minutes of published text
মৃণালিনী
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
At the end of the twelfth century a young prince, Hemachandra, goes to Nabadwip in search of his lost love Mrinalini while the Turkish raiders of Bakhtiyar Khilji gather beyond Bengal's borders. Bankim's 1869 historical romance sets a lovers' search against the legend of the fall of a Hindu kingdom. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
46 chapters · About 129 minutes of published text
মেজদিদি
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Kesto, a boy of fourteen left an orphan by his mother's death, is sent to live in the well-off house of his half-sister, where he is overworked and beaten and finds one person to be kind to him, the 'middle sister' of the title. Sarat Chandra's novella of 1915 is a story of a household and of a child's loyalty to a woman who is not his mother. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
8 chapters · About 34 minutes of published text
যোগাযোগ
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Kumudini, the proud and sensitive daughter of an old, impoverished family, is married to Madhusudan, a self-made businessman with money and little feeling for what she values. Tagore's late novel of 1929 follows the two of them in their house in Calcutta, a marriage seen from both sides.
58 chapters · About 259 minutes of published text
রজনী
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Rajani, a blind girl who sells flowers in Calcutta, tells her own story, and the other people in it, among them the young man she loves, each take up the narration in turn. Bankim's 1877 novel is told in several voices and is among the first Bengali books to look at love from a blind woman's side. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
32 chapters · About 88 minutes of published text
রাজকাহিনী
By অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Stories of Rajput kings, queens and warriors of Chittor and Mewar, drawn from Colonel Tod's Annals of Rajasthan and retold in spirited Bengali. Abanindranath Tagore, the painter, published them in 1909 and wrote in a style that reads aloud like a ballad. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
4 chapters · About 73 minutes of published text
রাজর্ষি
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
In the kingdom of Tripura a king hears a small girl ask why blood must be shed at the goddess's temple, and sets himself against the priest who serves it. Tagore's first historical novel, written in 1887, is a book on kingship and cruelty, and the plays Bisarjan and Mukut grew out of it.
45 chapters · About 145 minutes of published text
রাজসিংহ
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
A Rajput princess of Roopnagar, a small hill state, refuses the Emperor Aurangzeb's offer of marriage, and the Rana of Mewar is asked to protect her. First published in 1882 and enlarged in 1893, this is the book Bankim himself called his only true historical novel, a war story and a story of the courts.
19 chapters · About 59 minutes of published text
শেষের কবিতা
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Amit Ray, a barrister back from England, quick with words and tired of conventional romance, meets Labanya in the hills and begins a love affair carried on by letters and verses. Tagore's playful 1929 novel mixes prose and poems and is a favourite of readers who think Tagore too serious. 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 119 minutes of published text
শ্রীকান্ত
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Srikanta, a restless young man with no home to speak of, tells of his boyhood friend Indranath, a boy of the river and the night, and of the people he meets as he wanders across Bengal and Bihar. The first part of Sarat Chandra's best-loved book, from 1917, reads like a memoir and has the warmth and humour of the author's own life. 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 166 minutes of published text
সীতার বনবাস
By ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর
The last chapters of the Ramayana as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar tells them in Bengali prose, in which Rama, having won back his queen, hears of the talk among his people and sends her away to the forest. Published in 1860, it is a classic of Bengali prose and was read in schools for generations. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
8 chapters · About 73 minutes of published text
সীতারাম
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
In the seventeenth century a Bengali landowner, Sitaram Ray, gathers a following in the marshes of the south and declares a small kingdom in defiance of the Mughal governor. Bankim's 1887 novel follows his ambition, his two wives, and the faith of a woman who has left the world. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
55 chapters · About 163 minutes of published text
개척자
By 이광수
The chemist Kim Seong-jae spends his life on an experiment that he hopes will lift his country, and the family money and the love of his sister Seong-sun are staked on its success. Yi Kwang-su's novel of 1917 sets the new man of science against old family duty.
78 chapters · About 171 minutes of published text
그의 자서전
By 이광수
A man looks back on his life, beginning in a farming village under Samgaksan, and then through his school days and his years as a teacher. Yi Kwang-su's 1936 novel is told in the first person, though its title calls him only he, so that it reads as the story of any Korean of his time. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
6 chapters · About 278 minutes of published text
김연실전(金姸實傳)
By 김동인
Yeon-sil, the daughter of a Pyongyang official and a retired gisaeng, is carried by the wave of enlightenment into Japan, where she learns her ideas of freedom and love the wrong way round. Kim Dong-in's satire of 1939, in short numbered chapters, follows a would-be new woman with merciless wit. 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 70 minutes of published text
단종애사(端宗哀史)
By 이광수
The boy king Danjong comes to the throne of Joseon in the 1450s, and his uncle Prince Suyang, later King Sejo, seizes power by killing the loyal ministers who guarded him. Yi Kwang-su's historical novel follows the child's exile and death and the six ministers who died for him, and it is long read as a lament for a lost loyalty. 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 of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
4 chapters · About 428 minutes of published text
대수양(大首陽)
By 김동인
Prince Suyang, the second son of King Sejong, grows up bold and ambitious beside his gentler brother and then makes his way to the throne over the bodies of the old king's loyal ministers. Kim Dong-in's historical novel follows the court of the early 1450s in short chapters. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
55 chapters · About 284 minutes of published text
무영탑(無影塔)
By 현진건
In eighth-century Silla, the Baekje stonemason Asadal comes to build the Seokgatap at Bulguksa, and his wife Asanyeo waits for him far away while a Silla girl, Jugu, falls in love with him. Hyun Jin-geon draws on the old legend of the pagoda that casts no shadow in the pond to tell of art, devotion and a country's divided loyalties. 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.
9 chapters · About 354 minutes of published text
무정(無情)
By 이광수
Yi Hyeong-sik, a young English teacher in colonial Seoul, is pulled between the gisaeng Pak Yeong-chae, once promised to him, and the well-bred Kim Seon-hyeong, whom he is expected to marry. Serialized in 1917, it is usually called the first modern Korean novel and ends with a flood that gathers its young people around a cause larger than their own hearts. 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.
7 chapters · About 354 minutes of published text