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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
Hikâyet-i Oğuznâme-yi Kazan Beg ve Gayrı
By Anonymous
Another copy of the Oghuz tales, told of Kazan Beg and his companions: the sack of Kazan's house, his captured son Uruz, and the revolt of the Outer Oghuz against the Inner. It is a shorter manuscript tradition than the Dresden Dede Korkut.
6 chapters · About 76 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
Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagabundos y espejo de tacaños
By Francisco de Quevedo
Pablos, the son of a barber and a witch, rises and falls through school, university, the streets of Madrid and the underworld, always trying to pass for a gentleman. Quevedo's picaresque novel is a savage comic satire of vanity, hunger and social climbing.
23 chapters · About 186 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
Humus
By Raul Brandão
A book in fragments by Raul Brandão, part novel and part prose poem, which moves between a provincial town, the dreams of its people and a dialogue with the dead. A hard, strange and much-admired book of Portuguese modernism, with the shabby voice of the Gabiru's papers running through it.
17 chapters · About 245 minutes of published text
I promessi sposi
By Alessandro Manzoni
In 1628, on the shores of Lake Como, the silk weaver Renzo and the young Lucia are about to marry when a local lord's henchmen warn the village priest that the wedding must not take place. Parted and pursued, the two are carried through famine, riot, war and plague in Spanish-ruled Lombardy, in the novel that shaped modern Italian prose.
38 chapters · About 932 minutes of published text
I Vårbrytningen
By August Strindberg
Strindberg's early stories and sketches: sketches of student life at Uppsala, storms and sailors in the Stockholm archipelago, and pieces from Stockholm and abroad. Satirical, lyrical and sometimes bitter, they show a young writer finding his voice.
20 chapters · About 202 minutes of published text
Iaiá Garcia
By Machado de Assis
In Rio de Janeiro in the 1860s a modest civil servant, Luís Garcia, his wife Estela and his young daughter Iaiá live close to the grand household of the widow Valéria, whose son Jorge is about to go off to the war with Paraguay. Machado de Assis follows the two families as feeling and ambition cross the line between rich and poor.
17 chapters · About 242 minutes of published text
Idylls of the King
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tennyson's twelve idylls follow King Arthur's Round Table from its founding, through the quests of Gareth, Geraint and Lancelot, to the slow corruption of the court by Guinevere's love and the treason of Modred. The cycle ends in Arthur's last battle and his passing across the water.
13 chapters · About 364 minutes of published text
Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile
By Oscar Wilde (translated by Giuseppe Vannicola)
An American diplomat buys an old English country house together with its resident ghost, and his family flatly refuses to be frightened. Giuseppe Vannicola's translation pairs Wilde's comic ghost story with Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, in which a palm reader's prophecy sends a young lord looking for someone to murder.
13 chapters · About 93 minutes of published text
In Memoriam A. H. H.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tennyson's long elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, who died suddenly in 1833, is a sequence of short lyrics written over seventeen years about grief, doubt and a slow, hard-won faith. Its lines 'Tis better to have loved and lost' and 'Nature, red in tooth and claw' are among the best known in English.
129 chapters · About 81 minutes of published text
Inferno
By August Strindberg
Inferno is an autobiographical novel by August Strindberg. Written in French in 1896–97 at the height of Strindberg's troubles with both censors and women, the book is concerned with Strindberg's life both in and after he lived in Paris, and explores his various obsessions, including alchemy, occultism, and Swedenborgianism, and shows signs of paranoia and neuroticism.
16 chapters · About 200 minutes of published text