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La Batalo de l' Vivo
By Charles Dickens (translated by L. L. Zamenhof)
Dickens's fourth Christmas book, put into Esperanto by L. L. Zamenhof from a German version. On ground where a battle was once fought, a cheerful doctor who calls life a farce has two devoted daughters, and the younger is engaged to his ward Alfred, who is leaving to study abroad. The years of waiting test the sisters and their father in three parts.
3 chapters · About 125 minutes of published text
La carità del prossimo
By Vittorio Bersezio
Antonio Vanardi, a good-hearted and not very gifted painter, lives in a garret studio with a grumbling wife, four small children and creditors at every door. Driven by need to seek the help of charitable people, he learns what the generosity of his neighbours is really worth, in a novel that mixes warmth with satire.
30 chapters · About 399 minutes of published text
La Carrozza di tutti
By Edmondo De Amicis
On New Year's Day 1896 the narrator boards a horse tram in Turin and resolves to spend the year riding the city's public carriages. Month by month he watches passengers of every class, guessing at their lives and recording their quarrels and kindnesses, in a warm portrait of an Italian city.
12 chapters · About 493 minutes of published text
La catedral
By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Gabriel Luna, a fugitive and former seminarian, takes shelter in the cathedral of Toledo and finds a world of canons, bell ringers and old servants. Blasco Ibáñez's novel of ideas turns a church's daily life into a study of faith, power and doubt.
9 chapters · About 425 minutes of published text
La Chartreuse De Parme
By Stendhal
Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, runs off to fight for Napoleon and wanders, bewildered, across the field of Waterloo. Back in Italy his aunt and her powerful lover try to steer his career through the intrigues of the little court of Parma.
28 chapters · About 789 minutes of published text
La chasse au météore
By Jules Verne
Two amateur astronomers in a small American town spot the same meteor and fall out over who saw it first, just as their families are about to be joined by a wedding. When the meteor turns out to be a mass of solid gold falling slowly toward Earth, the whole world joins the quarrel. One of Verne's last novels, it turns his love of science into comic satire.
21 chapters · About 295 minutes of published text
La corte de Carlos IV
By Benito Pérez Galdós
The young Gabriel Araceli sees at close quarters the court of Charles IV, the favourite Godoy and the scandals that lead to the Aranjuez mutiny. This Episodio nacional carries its hero from the palace corridors to the intrigue of 1808.
28 chapters · About 300 minutes of published text
La dama boba
By Lope de Vega
Two sisters live in Madrid, one a learned poet and one thought dull, and a rich father arranges their marriages to suit that opinion. Lope's comedy shows how love makes the supposed fool the cleverest of all.
3 chapters · About 105 minutes of published text
La dama duende
By Pedro Calderón de la Barca
A widow kept shut up by her brothers uses a secret passage to visit the guest next door, who believes the nocturnal visitor to be a ghost. Calderón's cloak-and-dagger comedy is full of hidden doors, mistaken identity and quick wit.
3 chapters · About 77 minutes of published text
La dame aux camélias
By Alexandre Dumas
A young man of good family falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, the most admired courtesan in Paris, who is already ill. Their affair, and his father's opposition to it, are told after her death, when her belongings are sold at auction.
27 chapters · About 276 minutes of published text
La de Bringas
By Benito Pérez Galdós
In the royal palace of Madrid on the eve of the 1868 revolution, Rosalía Bringas, wife of a clerk, ruins her household's finances in pursuit of fine clothes. Galdós's sharp, funny novel finds in one woman's vanity the picture of a court on the edge of collapse.
40 chapters · About 256 minutes of published text
La familia de León Roch
By Benito Pérez Galdós
León Roch, a rationalist scientist, marries the pious María Egipciaca, and their opposite convictions turn the household into a battlefield of priests, relatives and old friends. Galdós uses the failing marriage to ask whether faith and modern thought can live under one roof.
59 chapters · About 629 minutes of published text
La favorita del Mahdi
By Emilio Salgari
In Sudan on the eve of the Mahdist uprising, a Greek family, an Arab officer and Fathma, a beautiful dancer, are drawn into rivalries of love and vengeance. As the Mahdi's followers rise against Egyptian rule, Salgari's early novel races through deserts, battles, captivity and pursuit.
42 chapters · About 484 minutes of published text
La fontana de oro
By Benito Pérez Galdós
A young man from the provinces arrives in Madrid in 1820 and is swept into the liberal talk of the Fontana de Oro café, while his love for his cousin and the schemes of a sinister uncle pull him another way. Galdós's first novel is a portrait of the capital in the heat of the constitutional revolution.
43 chapters · About 544 minutes of published text
La gaviota
By Fernán Caballero
A German doctor recovering in an Andalusian fishing village meets Marisalada, a fisherman's wild daughter nicknamed the Seagull for her extraordinary voice, and marries her. Her singing carries them to the stages of Seville and Madrid, in a novel that helped found Spanish realism with its pictures of country customs.
31 chapters · About 393 minutes of published text
La Guerre du Feu: Roman des âges farouches
By J.-H. Rosny
A tribe of prehistoric hunters loses its fire, and without it they cannot survive. Three young warriors set out across a wild land full of beasts and hostile tribes to bring fire back.
24 chapters · About 243 minutes of published text
La isla del tesoro
By Robert Louis Stevenson (translated by Manuel Caballero)
A map found in an old sailor's sea chest sends young Jim Hawkins from his mother's inn to sea aboard the Hispaniola, with a crew that includes the one-legged cook Long John Silver. This is Manuel Caballero's Spanish translation of Stevenson's Treasure Island.
34 chapters · About 385 minutes of published text
La Karavano
By Wilhelm Hauff (translated by J. W. Eggleton)
Wilhelm Hauff's frame tale in J. W. Eggleton's Esperanto translation. Merchants crossing the desert take a mysterious stranger into their caravan and pass the evenings telling stories, among them Caliph Stork, the Ghost Ship, the Severed Hand and Little Muck, fairy tales in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights.
7 chapters · About 153 minutes of published text
La madre naturaleza
By Emilia Pardo Bazán
Two young people raised in the secluded Galician manor of Ulloa, who believe themselves half-brother and sister, feel an attraction that nature seems to bless and that civilisation forbids. Pardo Bazán's sequel to Los pazos de Ulloa sets their love against a lush, wild landscape.
36 chapters · About 397 minutes of published text
La marque des quatre
By Arthur Conan Doyle (translated by Jeanne de Polignac Oilliamson)
A French translation of The Sign of the Four. A young governess who receives a pearl each year from an unknown sender asks Holmes and Watson to come with her to a mysterious meeting, and the case leads back to a treasure taken in India.
12 chapters · About 198 minutes of published text
La Montserrat: Novela de costums del nostre temps
By Dolores Monserdá de Maciá
Dolors Monserda's novel of customs opens on Don Joaquim Bach, a Barcelona tradesman who rose from a country boy apprenticed in a shop to a rich and respected citizen. Its fourteen chapters follow his family and his daughter Montserrat through seaside spas, matchmaking, ideals and hard lessons.
14 chapters · About 309 minutes of published text
La novellaja fiorentina: Fiabe e novelline stenografate in Firenze dal dettato popolare
By Vittorio Imbriani
Fifty fairy tales and popular stories taken down word for word from Florentine storytellers in the 1870s, with ogres, enchanted birds, a Tuscan Cinderella and quick-witted peasants. Imbriani keeps the tellers' own spoken Florentine and follows each tale with notes comparing it with versions from elsewhere, including Milanese ones.
50 chapters · About 862 minutes of published text
La Parada
By Joaquín Ruyra
The title novella follows a band of boys on the coast as they set out with birdlime and decoys for a great autumn bird hunt, an adventure that turns into a lesson about friendship and growing up. It is followed by shorter stories of youth and memory, a comic tale of seminarians awaiting the end of the world in Girona, and a long folk tale about a man never content with his lot. A glossary of the dialect words Ruyra uses closes the book.
8 chapters · About 215 minutes of published text
La princesse de Clèves
By Madame de La Fayette
La Princesse de Clèves is a French novel which was published anonymously in March 1678. It was regarded by many as the beginning of the modern tradition of the psychological novel and a classic work. Its author is generally held to be Madame de La Fayette.
4 chapters · About 256 minutes of published text