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• English Fairy Tales

  By Anonymous

  Joseph Jacobs's 1890 collection of English tales, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Tom Tit Tot and The Three Little Pigs. Retold in the spoken English of the villages where they were found. The best-loved gathering of English folk tales.

  43 chapters · About 257 minutes of published text

• Eredeti népmesék

  By László Arany

  Hungarian folk tales collected by László Arany in the 1860s: blind kings, devils, clever girls, the hero Fehérlófia and tiny Babszem Jankó, ending with a set of riddles and their answers.

  30 chapters · About 225 minutes of published text

• Erewhon; Or, Over the Range

  By Samuel Butler

  Erewhon, or Over the Range (ERR-eh-hwon) is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society. Its name is an anagram of the word “nowhere”, with the same meaning as “utopia” (nowhere).

  30 chapters · About 365 minutes of published text

• Esau e Jacob

  By Machado de Assis

  Esau and Jacob is a Machado de Assis novel launched in 1904, four years before his death, by Editora Garnier, and, according to most critics, in full literary heyday, after writing, in 1899, Dom Casmurro, the most famous from his books. Esaú e Jacó stand out for consolidating a "smooth mastery" in the domain of the plot. Machado takes advantage of the occasional eccentricity in a text that leaves behind traces of picaresque and embarks on a realism that resumes the melancholy and lyricism that had begun in the first phase of his literary production. Highlighted are the characters very close to real life.

  120 chapters · About 306 minutes of published text

• Escenas de la vida pagesa

  By Joaquim Riera i Bertran

  Thirteen scenes and tales of country life by Joaquim Riera i Bertran, from a village mill and a mayor's dining room to popular and historical legends. Quarrels, slanders, farewells and a sardana player's memoirs show Catalan peasant life in the late nineteenth century.

  13 chapters · About 147 minutes of published text

• Esik a hó: Novellák

  By Frigyes Karinthy

  Fifteen early stories by Frigyes Karinthy, better known for his parodies: lyrical and wry pieces about love, art and city life, from a bunch of flowers to a merry-go-round and a pilot.

  15 chapters · About 111 minutes of published text

• Estrelas Funestas

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  In Lisbon in 1778 a rich young nobleman of Porto, Gonçalo Malafaya, spends money for show among the court's gallants while promised since boyhood to his cousin, D. Maria das Dores. Camilo's romance of ill stars carries a family from the glitter of the capital back to its provincial houses.

  20 chapters · About 205 minutes of published text

• Estrelas Propícias

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  Opening on a house by the River Lima near Viana do Castelo, half ancient and half whitewashed, Camilo tells a story of a family and a love in the Minho, under a title that promises kinder stars than those of his Estrelas Funestas.

  20 chapters · About 191 minutes of published text

• Ethan Frome

  By Edith Wharton

  Ethan Frome is a 1911 novella by American author Edith Wharton. It details the story of a man who falls in love with his wife's cousin and the tragedies that result from the ensuing love triangle. The novel has been adapted into a film of the same name.

  9 chapters · About 131 minutes of published text

• Eurico, o presbytero

  By Alexandre Herculano

  Eurico, a Visigothic warrior who became a priest after he was refused the woman he loved, lives in retreat as the Moorish invasion of 711 sweeps into the Iberian peninsula. Alexandre Herculano's historical romance follows him back into battle.

  19 chapters · About 247 minutes of published text

• Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

  By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  On the eve of their wedding, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse are parted when the British deport the Acadian farmers of Grand-Pré in 1755. She spends her life searching for him across America, and finds him only when he is dying.

  2 chapters · About 67 minutes of published text

• Everyman, with Other Interludes and Miracle Plays

  By Anonymous

  The morality play Everyman, in which Death summons an ordinary man to his reckoning and all his friends and goods fall away except Good Deeds, stands first in a collection of English religious plays. The rest include the Chester Deluge and Abraham and Isaac, the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play and Harrowing of Hell, and John Bale's God's Promises.

  10 chapters · About 194 minutes of published text

• Fabeloj de Andersen

  By H. C. Andersen (translated by Frederik Skeel-Giørling)

  Five of Hans Christian Andersen's best-loved fairy tales in Frederik Skeel-Giørling's 1909 Esperanto translation. A tin soldier with one leg, a mother who follows Death to win back her child, a soldier with a witch's tinderbox, a princess tested with a pea and a girl selling matches in the snow on New Year's Eve each have a tale of their own.

  5 chapters · About 36 minutes of published text

• Far from the Madding Crowd

  By Thomas Hardy

  Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy; and his first major literary success. It was published on 23 November 1874. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership.

  57 chapters · About 590 minutes of published text

• Faraon

  By Bolesław Prus

  The young prince Ramses, heir to the Egyptian throne in the eleventh century BC, wants to reform the kingdom and to break the power of the priests who hold the wealth and the secrets of the land. Prus's only historical novel follows his rise as Pharaoh and the slow trap of a priesthood older than the throne.

  69 chapters · About 878 minutes of published text

• Fausto Bragia, e altre novelle

  By Luigi Capuana

  The title story follows Fausto Bragia through the sleepless night after a long-desired love affair begins, and through what it costs him. Eleven more stories by a master of Italian verismo range from comedy, as in the May Day of Doctor Piccottini, to secret dramas and an evocation of the dead.

  12 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text

• Fekete gyémántok

  By Mór Jókai

  Iván Berend, a scholar and engineer, works his coal mines in a remote valley and treats his miners fairly, while financiers in Vienna and Pest dream up a railway and mining company built on speculation. Jókai sets his upright hero against the bankers and high society, with a poor girl, Evila, at the centre of his heart.

  45 chapters · About 556 minutes of published text

• Five Weeks in a Balloon: Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen

  By Jules Verne

  Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's interest through passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.

  22 chapters · About 213 minutes of published text

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

  By Edwin Abbott Abbott

  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

  22 chapters · About 142 minutes of published text

• Folkungaträdet

  By Verner von Heidenstam

  In heathen Östergötland, the rich farmer Folke Filbyter builds up land and power and then loses his grandson, and the search for the boy sets a family on its path from peasants to kings. Verner von Heidenstam's two linked novels follow the Folkungs over generations, through the age of the earls of Bjälbo to the struggles between the brothers who ruled medieval Sweden.

  37 chapters · About 567 minutes of published text

• Forse che sì forse che no

  By Gabriele D'Annunzio

  Forse che sì forse che no (Maybe Yes, Maybe No) is a novel published in 1910 by Gabriele D'Annunzio. As all of D'Annunzio's novels, Forse che sì forse che no partially echoes one of D'Annunzio's own experiences. In particular, this novel draws on D'Annunzio's summer of "erotic frenzy with Donatella [Cross]." He originally planned to title the novel Vertigine, meaning 'vertigo', and even attempted to change Forse che sì forse che no since he was made aware that its rhythm matched the Neapolitan popular song Funiculì, Funiculà. This book is considered to be the "last great D'Annunzian novel."

  3 chapters · About 450 minutes of published text

• Förvillelser

  By Hjalmar Söderberg

  Tomas Weber, a medical student in Stockholm in the 1890s, drifts between a respectable girl and a pretty shop assistant, and between the money he owes and the money he wants. Hjalmar Söderberg's first novel is a cool, ironic portrait of a young man's wanderings in love and morals in the city.

  15 chapters · About 176 minutes of published text

• Four square Jane

  By Edgar Wallace

  Edgar Wallace's Four Square Jane, 1929, follows a masked thief who steals from the dishonest and sends the loot to the poor. Police and press chase her through London. Light, quick and full of Wallace's favourite devices.

  9 chapters · About 149 minutes of published text

• Fra Mindebo: Jyske Folkeæventyr

  By Evald Tang Kristensen

  Twenty-nine folk tales gathered from storytellers in Jutland by the great Danish folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen. Princesses and trolls, clever tailors and foolish priests, magic gifts and a fox that is outwitted, told in the plain voice of the country people who passed them on. A short afterword by the collector closes the book.

  30 chapters · About 184 minutes of published text