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Gulliver utazásai
By Jonathan Swift (translated by Frigyes Karinthy)
A ship's surgeon is cast away among the tiny Lilliputians, then the giants of Brobdingnag, a flying island of scholars and a land ruled by rational horses. Swift's satire in a Hungarian translation by Frigyes Karinthy.
39 chapters · About 300 minutes of published text
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
By Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift's 1726 satire follows ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, Brobdingnag and stranger lands. A reader finds tiny people, giants, flying islands and a pointed look at human folly.
39 chapters · About 448 minutes of published text
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
By Jonathan Swift
Lemuel Gulliver’s first two voyages, to the tiny Lilliputians and the giant Brobdingnagians, in a school edition of the 1726 text. Jonathan Swift's 1726 satire on human folly.
16 chapters · About 218 minutes of published text
Haabløse Slægter
By Herman Bang
William Høg is the last son of an old noble family worn down by madness and decline. Sensitive and ambitious, he tries to escape what he has inherited through an affair with an older woman and dreams of a career on the stage, but the weight of his family's past keeps pulling him back. Herman Bang's first novel, a scandal in its day, opens with a prologue on the family's history and follows William from boyhood into early manhood.
16 chapters · About 359 minutes of published text
Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect
By Haida storytellers of Skidegate, recorded by John R. Swanton
Thirteen tales told in Haida at Skidegate on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, and written down in the winter of 1900-01 by the American anthropologist John R. Swanton, who printed them with an English translation in the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 29 (1905). The tellers include the chiefs Tom Stevens and Walter McGregor, John Sky of Those-born-at-Skedans, Job Moody, Abraham and Jimmy Sterling, with Henry Moody as interpreter. A reader will find the salmon boy Moldy-forehead, the birth of Shining-heavens, the Beaver and the Porcupine, the gambling-stick tales, a hunter's bear songs and the clans' accounts of their wars.
13 chapters · About 53 minutes of published text
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.
5 chapters · About 138 minutes of published text
Hanna
By Minna Canth
Little Hanna grows up in a strict middle-class household, where her brother is given schooling and freedom and she is taught to obey. As a young woman she falls for the charming Woldemar, and her first love becomes a lesson in how little a girl of her class is allowed to choose. One of Minna Canth's sharpest studies of a woman's place.
7 chapters · About 170 minutes of published text
Hard Times
By Charles Dickens
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises its social and economic conditions. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. It is by far the shortest of Dickens's novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it. Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel without scenes set in London.
37 chapters · About 447 minutes of published text
Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonialism in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality.
3 chapters · About 165 minutes of published text
Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen (translated by William Archer and Edmund Gosse)
Hedda, the general's daughter, newly married and bored with her husband Tesman, is drawn into the fortunes of his brilliant rival Lovborg. Her need to control other people's lives leads her to burn a manuscript and to a fatal act of her own.
4 chapters · About 114 minutes of published text
Helena
By Machado de Assis
When the wealthy Counsellor Vale dies, his will acknowledges a natural daughter, Helena, and asks his family to take her in. She comes to live with his son Estácio and his sister, wins over the whole household, and keeps a secret of her own.
28 chapters · About 242 minutes of published text
Hemsöborna
By August Strindberg
Carlsson, a smooth-talking farmhand from Värmland, arrives on the island of Hemsö to take charge of the widow Flod's neglected farm, and soon has his eye on the widow herself. Strindberg's comic and finally sombre novel of the Stockholm archipelago follows the work, fishing, feasts and family quarrels among people who live by the sea.
7 chapters · About 190 minutes of published text
Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
By Benjamin Disraeli
Henrietta Temple, the daughter of a gentleman, and the young Ferdinand Armine, burdened with debt, fall in love. Benjamin Disraeli's 1837 romance of passion and money.
81 chapters · About 619 minutes of published text
Henry V
By William Shakespeare
The young King Henry claims the crown of France and leads a small, exhausted English army across the Channel. Through the siege of Harfleur and the long night before Agincourt, the play weighs the glory of a famous victory against what it costs the men who win it.
7 chapters · About 118 minutes of published text
Herland
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland is a 1915 feminist utopian novel written by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who bear children without men (parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916, with its sequel, With Her in Ourland beginning immediately thereafter in the January 1916 issue. The book is often considered to be the middle volume in her utopian trilogy, preceded by Moving the Mountain (1911).
12 chapters · About 226 minutes of published text
Herr Corpwieth, gentleman-detektiv
By Emil Hasselblatt and Olaf Homén and Henning Söderhjelm
Herr Corpwieth, gentleman detective, and his faithful companion solve cases in Helsinki around 1913, starting with strange goings-on at the university library. Three Finland-Swedish authors wrote these affectionate parodies of Sherlock Holmes, full of disguises, deductions and solemn nonsense.
19 chapters · About 147 minutes of published text
Hindi Biro!... ó Ang Anting-Anting
By José R. Francia
Juan Hanipol, a young man with a weakness for charms and spells, goes to serve old Tacio Kabal in the hope of inheriting his secrets. Midnight vigils under a camachile tree, prayers in mock Latin and a promise of invisibility lead him into one embarrassing scrape after another. A short comic tale of 1911 that pokes fun at faith in the anting-anting.
9 chapters · About 22 minutes of published text
His last bow: Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan Doyle
"His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes", later titled "His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes", is one of 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in September 1917 in The Strand Magazine and collected as the last of an anthology of eight stories titled His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes the following month. The narration is in the third person, instead of the first person narration usually provided by the character of Dr. Watson, and it is a spy story, rather than a detective mystery.
7 chapters · About 256 minutes of published text
Histórias Brasileiras
By Visconde de Taunay
Four tales and a one-act comedy by the Visconde de Taunay, most set in the frontier country of Mato Grosso that he knew as a soldier: Ierecê a Guaná, Camirão o Kinikinau, O Vigário das Dores and Juca o Tropeiro. They are early Brazilian regional stories, written in the 1870s.
5 chapters · About 189 minutes of published text
Histórias e Sonhos
By Lima Barreto
A collection of Lima Barreto's stories of 1920, opening with the preface Amplius! and gathering pieces such as O Moleque and Sua Excelência. The tales look at the people of Rio de Janeiro's offices, suburbs and streets with the writer's characteristic irony and sympathy.
19 chapters · About 208 minutes of published text
Historias Sem Data
By Machado de Assis
Machado de Assis's 1884 collection, whose title says its stories belong to no particular date. Ironic and sharply observed, they range from a parable about the devil founding his own church to tales of vanity, love and money in Rio.
18 chapters · About 216 minutes of published text
Hiwaga ng Pagibig
By Balbino B. Nanong
Leonora and Eduardo swear their love under a mango tree, but her choices lead her to marry Daniel Perez and betray him, and he takes his own life. The novel ends at his grave, where she mourns and repents. A 1922 Tagalog novel in seventeen chapters by Balbino B. Nanong of the Panulat Banahaw writers' circle.
17 chapters · About 133 minutes of published text
Huckleberry Finn kalandjai
By Mark Twain (translated by Jenő Rákosi)
Huck Finn escapes his drunken father and drifts down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a man running from slavery. Mark Twain's novel in an early Hungarian translation by Jenő Rákosi.
43 chapters · About 403 minutes of published text
Huligaani: ynnä muita kertoelmia
By Arvid Järnefelt
In the title story a young tough named Ranssu is brought to a country hospital with knife wounds after a brawl in which a constable was hurt, and Margit, the nurse who tends him, finds herself taking his side against the police. A short play and a dozen tales and parables follow, written in the Tolstoyan spirit that shaped Järnefelt's work.
14 chapters · About 100 minutes of published text