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Germanernes Lærling
By Karl Gjellerup
The young theology student Hjorth grows up in a Danish world still bitter about the lost war of 1864 and loyal to its church. As he reads his way into the new free thinking, loses his faith and turns for guidance to German philosophy and culture, he finds his loyalties in love, family and country tested. Gjellerup's partly autobiographical novel of an education in ideas.
46 chapters · About 445 minutes of published text
Germinal
By Émile Zola
Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries. It has also inspired five film adaptations and two television productions.
40 chapters · About 715 minutes of published text
Gerona
By Benito Pérez Galdós
Gabriel Araceli joins the defenders of Gerona in 1809 as plague and starvation tighten the French siege. The Episodio nacional follows his duties and his love life against the city's long and costly refusal to surrender.
27 chapters · About 267 minutes of published text
Gevoel en verstand
By Jane Austen (translated by Gonne Loman-van Uildriks)
After their father's death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother lose their home and move to a cottage in Devonshire. Sensible Elinor and impulsive Marianne meet love and disappointment in very different ways, in Gonne Loman-van Uildriks's Dutch translation of Sense and Sensibility.
50 chapters · About 541 minutes of published text
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
By M. R. James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a collection of ghost stories by British writer M. R. James, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), combined in one volume.
8 chapters · About 196 minutes of published text
Ghosts
By Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)
Mrs Alving is about to open an orphanage in memory of her late husband, whom everyone remembers as a model citizen, when her son Oswald comes home from Paris. The secrets of the household, kept for twenty years, begin to come out.
3 chapters · About 97 minutes of published text
Gli amori
By Federico De Roberto
Twenty-nine stories about love, most of them framed as letters from the narrator to a witty and offended countess. De Roberto dissects suspicion, jealousy, vanity and devotion in a cool, ironic voice, from a first silent understanding to letters of farewell.
29 chapters · About 346 minutes of published text
Gloria
By Benito Pérez Galdós
A shipwreck brings a young Jewish stranger to the house of a devout Catholic family in a Spanish provincial town, and he and the daughter, Gloria, fall in love. Galdós turns their story into a drama of fanaticism and tolerance in nineteenth-century Spain.
72 chapters · About 551 minutes of published text
Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems
By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti's two volumes of 1862 and 1866 give the title poem, in which the sisters Laura and Lizzie meet the goblin merchants whose fruit is a poison, and The Prince's Progress. A long shelf of lyrics on love, loss and faith follows, among them Up-Hill and A Birthday.
141 chapters · About 194 minutes of published text
Götiska rummen: Släktöden från sekelslutet
By August Strindberg
Twenty-five years after The Red Room, Strindberg returns to Stockholm at the end of the century, where Doctor Borg and his family gather in the Gothic Rooms restaurant. Marriages, careers, scandals and new ideas pass through the lives of an extended family as the century runs out.
18 chapters · About 354 minutes of published text
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes.
59 chapters · About 801 minutes of published text
Grimm testvérek összegyüjtött meséi
By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (translated by Elek Benedek)
Forty-six of the Grimm brothers' tales retold in Hungarian by Elek Benedek, the great Hungarian storyteller for children: the frog prince, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and many more.
46 chapters · About 267 minutes of published text
Grimms' Fairy Tales
By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first edition contained 86 stories, which were followed by 70 more tales, numbered consecutively, in the 1st edition, Vol. 2, in 1815. By the seventh edition in 1857, the corpus of tales had expanded to 200 tales and 10 "Children's Legends". It is considered the seminal work of Western children's literature and is listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Register.
62 chapters · About 438 minutes of published text
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
Hania
By Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk, the narrator, loves Hania, a girl he has known since childhood, in a manor in the Polish east where a Tatar neighbour, Selim Mirza, also comes into their lives. Sienkiewicz's novella of 1876, a tale of unfulfilled love, belongs with his 'little trilogy'.
12 chapters · About 160 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