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Kampstories
By C. Louis Leipoldt
Eleven tales that Leipoldt told to the younger children at South African school camps and later sent out into the world unchanged. They range from a Bushman legend of a blind hunter and the stories of old Abdoel in his Cape Malay shop to clever animals, a naughty boy, a sorry ghost and the reasons why the sea weeps and where the rainbow comes from.
11 chapters · About 155 minutes of published text
Karavaani ja muita juttuja
By Pentti Haanpää
Nineteen stories from the backwoods of northern Finland, where loggers, drifters, smugglers and small farmers get by on hard work, bootleg liquor and dry wit. Haanpää writes about the poor without sentiment, in quick sketches that swing between comedy and bleakness.
19 chapters · About 106 minutes of published text
Kardinalens frieri: En fågelhistoria
By Gene Stratton-Porter (translated by Ernst Lundquist)
A male cardinal, the finest singer along an Indiana river, sets out in spring to find a mate and win her with his song, while hunters and the changing seasons threaten them both. Gene Stratton-Porter's short nature romance, here in Ernst Lundquist's Swedish translation, follows the birds through courtship and the making of a home.
5 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text
Kauppa-Lopo
By Minna Canth
Lopo, a sharp-tongued second-hand dealer from Kuopio, is serving her fourth jail term in Jyväskylä for drunkenness, sharing a cell with the young Riitta. Back at the market with her goods and her quick tongue, she cannot forget the girl, and her rough affection becomes the centre of her life. Minna Canth's short novel looks at the poorest of a small town with anger and pity.
5 chapters · About 42 minutes of published text
Kidnapped
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.
30 chapters · About 347 minutes of published text
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
By Thomas Malory
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a retelling of the Arthurian legends, principally Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was intended for children. It was first published by Puffin Books in 1953 and has since been reprinted many times. In 2008, it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series with an introduction by David Almond (the author of Clay, Skellig, Kit's Wilderness, and The Fire-Eaters), and the original illustrations by Lotte Reiniger.
15 chapters · About 414 minutes of published text
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
The aged King Lear divides his kingdom between the two daughters who flatter him and banishes Cordelia, the one who loves him honestly. Stripped of power and driven out into a storm, he learns what he has thrown away, while a parallel plot of treachery unfolds around the Earl of Gloucester.
5 chapters · About 119 minutes of published text
King Solomon's Mines
By H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. Published by Cassell and Company, it tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre. It is the first of fourteen novels and four short stories by Haggard about Allan Quatermain.
20 chapters · About 353 minutes of published text
Kloka Maja och andra berättelser
By Frans Hedberg
Four longer tales of the Swedish archipelago and countryside by Frans Hedberg. The title story follows Wise Maja, the women's helper and oracle on her island and the bane of their husbands; the others tell of an outsider from the mainland, a splendid old woman and paths that go astray.
31 chapters · About 269 minutes of published text
Kolme muskettisoturia: Historiallinen romaani
By Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet (translated by P. J. Hannikainen)
Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony to join the King's Musketeers and on his first day manages to challenge Athos, Porthos and Aramis to duels, which makes them his friends. Together they are drawn into the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu and the dangerous Milady. This is P. J. Hannikainen's Finnish translation of 1889.
63 chapters · About 719 minutes of published text
Komedyantka
By Władysław Reymont
Janka Orłowska, a girl from a small town, runs away to join a travelling theatre company in the hope of a life of art. Reymont tells with an eye for detail her years of poverty, quarrels and love among the actors of the provinces.
10 chapters · About 362 minutes of published text
Kongens Fald
By Johannes V. Jensen
Mikkel Thøgersen, a poor and brooding student in Copenhagen at the start of the sixteenth century, crosses the path of the reckless nobleman Axel and is drawn into the service of King Christian II. Over a lifetime he follows the king through the wars in Sweden, the bloodbath in Stockholm and the long fall that ends in a prison cell at Sønderborg. Johannes V. Jensen's dark, lyrical novel was later voted the greatest Danish novel of the century.
42 chapters · About 307 minutes of published text
Konrad Wallenrod
By Adam Mickiewicz
Konrad Wallenrod, a Lithuanian taken as a boy by the Teutonic Knights and raised among them, rises to become Grand Master of the Order in order to destroy it from within. Mickiewicz's narrative poem of 1828 is a story of betrayal for the sake of a country and of the love that cannot be saved.
7 chapters · About 50 minutes of published text
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
By Lafcadio Hearn
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan; also archaic romanized Kwaidan), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn) that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi.
21 chapters · About 154 minutes of published text
L'amore che torna: romanzo
By Guido da Verona
Guelfo, a worldly man of pleasure, is haunted by the beauty of a woman he has never possessed, and tells in the first person how desire, jealousy and old habits of seduction take hold of his life. A sensual bestseller of the Belle Epoque by one of the most popular and most scandalous Italian novelists of his day.
37 chapters · About 494 minutes of published text
L'auca del senyor Esteve: ab redolins dibuixats per en Ramón Casas; escrits per en Gabriel Alomar
By Santiago Rusiñol
The life of Esteve, born into the family haberdashery La Puntual in nineteenth-century Barcelona, told from the cradle onward in the manner of an auca, the illustrated broadsheet of rhymed scenes. Thrift, order and the shop counter shape every step he takes, until his own son wants to become a sculptor. A gently ironic portrait of the Catalan shopkeeping class and its quarrel with art.
27 chapters · About 226 minutes of published text
L'esca del pecat
By M. Figuerola Aldroféu
A Catalan novel in twenty-seven short chapters that opens on a village quarrel in which a shoemaker threatens the boys who have wronged him. Its title, the tinder of sin, points to the small temptations from which the story's troubles catch fire.
27 chapters · About 107 minutes of published text
L'Ève future
By Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
The Future Eve is a symbolist science fiction novel by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Begun in 1878 and originally published in 1880 as L'Ève nouvelle, the novel is known for popularizing the term "Android".
74 chapters · About 360 minutes of published text
L'homme Qui Rit
By Victor Hugo
A boy abandoned on the coast of England one winter night is taken in by a travelling showman, together with a blind baby girl. His face has been carved into a permanent smile, and his origins lie in the court of Queen Anne.
121 chapters · About 832 minutes of published text
L'île mystérieuse
By Jules Verne
Five men escape the siege of Richmond in a balloon and are blown across the ocean to an unknown island in the Pacific. With an engineer's knowledge and their bare hands they build a colony, while someone unseen seems to be watching over them.
61 chapters · About 852 minutes of published text
L'infedele
By Matilde Serao
Three people make up this love story: Paolo Herz, a southern Italian man of pleasure in his late thirties, Luisa Cima, and the capricious Cherie. Serao follows the pull between them with a sharp eye for the manners of elegant society; the volume also holds three shorter stories, Dissidio, L'attesa and Zig-Zag.
10 chapters · About 105 minutes of published text
L'Innocente
By Gabriele D'Annunzio
Tullio Hermil, a refined and unfaithful aristocrat, opens his story by confessing to a crime that no court of law could judge. He tells how he tried to win back his neglected wife Giuliana during a spring in the country, and how everything changed when he learned that she was carrying another man's child.
52 chapters · About 335 minutes of published text
L'olmo e l'edera
By Anton Giulio Barrili
Presented as a true story, the novel follows Guido Laurenti, a young doctor in Genoa, and Luisa, a gentle woman whose frail health and lonely life draw him to her. Barrili sets their quiet, hesitant love against the gossip of the city's fashionable drawing rooms.
23 chapters · About 255 minutes of published text
L'Uomo di Fuoco
By Emilio Salgari
Shipwrecked on the coast of Brazil in the sixteenth century, the Portuguese sailor Diego Alvaro Correa falls among cannibal tribes and survives by passing himself off as a man who commands fire. Salgari builds a jungle adventure of sieges, hunts and escapes on the legend of Caramuru.
32 chapters · About 417 minutes of published text