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• Le Novelle della Pescara

  By Gabriele D'Annunzio

  Eighteen stories of the Abruzzo coast and countryside around Pescara, from the lives of two devout sisters, Orsola and Anna, to feuding village idolaters, a ferryman, a ship's surgeon and the wanderer Turlendana. D'Annunzio's early tales are violent, sensual and steeped in local belief.

  18 chapters · About 354 minutes of published text

• Le portrait de Dorian Gray

  By Oscar Wilde (translated by Albert Savine)

  A French translation of Oscar Wilde's novel. A beautiful young man, admired by a painter and led on by a witty lord, wishes that his portrait could grow old in his place, and the wish is granted.

  20 chapters · About 330 minutes of published text

• Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle

  By Stendhal

  Julien Sorel, a carpenter's son with a quick mind and an admiration for Napoleon, becomes tutor in the house of a provincial mayor. He sets out to rise in a society where the army is closed to him and the Church is the only open road.

  75 chapters · About 746 minutes of published text

• Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

  By Jules Verne

  Phileas Fogg, a London gentleman who lives by the clock, bets his fellow club members that he can travel round the world in eighty days. He sets off at once with his new French servant Passepartout, followed by a detective who believes he is a bank robber.

  37 chapters · About 289 minutes of published text

• Leaves of Grass

  By Walt Whitman

  Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. After self-publishing it in 1855, he spent most of his professional life writing, revising, and expanding the collection until his death in 1892. Either six or nine separate editions of the book were produced, depending on how one defines a new edition. The continual modifications to Leaves of Grass resulted in vastly different copies of it circulating in Whitman's lifetime. The first edition was a slim tract of twelve poems, and the last was a compilation of over 400 poems.

  34 chapters · About 528 minutes of published text

• Légy jó mindhalálig

  By Zsigmond Móricz

  Misi Nyilas, a poor twelve-year-old at the old Reformed College in Debrecen, tries to live up to the school's strict code of honour. When he becomes tangled up in the business of a lost lottery ticket, the adult world turns out to be far less honest than the one he believes in.

  12 chapters · About 358 minutes of published text

• Les diaboliques

  By J. Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) is a collection of short stories written by Barbey d'Aurevilly and published in France in 1874. Each story features a woman who commits an act of violence, or revenge, or some other crime. It is considered d'Aurevilly's masterpiece.

  6 chapters · About 424 minutes of published text

• Les Dieux ont soif

  By Anatole France

  In Paris during the Terror, Évariste Gamelin, a poor and idealistic painter, is appointed a juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal. His faith in the Republic grows harder as the guillotine works ever faster.

  29 chapters · About 292 minutes of published text

• Les Mémoires d'un Parapluie

  By Elisabeth Galos Houdetot

  An umbrella tells its own life story, from its first days in a shop to the many hands it passes through: raffled at a party, stolen, pawned, and carried into rich homes and poor garrets. Through its owners, the Comtesse de Houdetot draws a gentle moral portrait of French families for young readers.

  11 chapters · About 95 minutes of published text

• Les mille et une nuits: contes choisis

  By Anonymous (translated by Antoine Galland)

  Antoine Galland's French version of tales from the Thousand and One Nights, the version that first brought them to Europe. Scheherazade tells story after story to the sultan to keep herself alive.

  26 chapters · About 616 minutes of published text

• Les Misérables

  By Victor Hugo (translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood)

  Les Misérables is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television, and the stage, including a musical.

  365 chapters · About 2436 minutes of published text

• Les trois mousquetaires

  By Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

  A hot-headed young Gascon rides to Paris to join the king's musketeers and, within a day, has arranged duels with three of them. Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan become inseparable and are drawn into the rivalry between the queen and Cardinal Richelieu.

  67 chapters · About 972 minutes of published text

• Lifsbilder från finska hem 1: Bland fattigt folk

  By Minna Canth (translated by Rafaël Hertzberg)

  Mari sits up all night with her sick baby in a cold, dark room, after the last candle end has burned out. Minna Canth's short novel follows a poor family in a Finnish town as poverty and despair press on a mother's mind, in Rafaël Hertzberg's Swedish translation.

  2 chapters · About 79 minutes of published text

• Limanora: the island of progress

  By Godfrey Sweven

  Godfrey Sweven's 1903 utopian romance of a traveller who comes to an island where an advanced society has bred a new humanity. He learns its sciences, its education and its odd customs. A long, eccentric vision in the manner of Bellamy and More.

  31 chapters · About 912 minutes of published text

• Lintukoto: Muutamia päiväkirjan lehtiä

  By Joel Lehtonen

  A writer returns each summer to his tiny island cottage on Lake Vanajavesi, which he calls Lintukoto, and keeps a diary of rats, roosters, visiting friends, moonlit nights and the small comedies of his country neighbours. The dated sketches add up to a wry and tender portrait of a refuge from the city and of the man who needs it.

  21 chapters · About 141 minutes of published text

• Little Dorrit

  By Charles Dickens

  Little Dorrit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew.

  70 chapters · About 1460 minutes of published text

• Little Women

  By Louisa May Alcott

  Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.

  47 chapters · About 807 minutes of published text

• Livro de Consolação

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  Venceslau Taveira, born near Lamego in 1795, is the younger son of an entailed house and is destined by his family to be a monk. He tells the monks of Tibães that he has neither the gift nor the faith, and the novel follows what happens to a man who will not be a friar.

  23 chapters · About 236 minutes of published text

• Lo prohibido

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  José María Bueno de Guzmán, a rich bachelor back in Madrid, tells in his own words of the cousins he tried to win and of the money that slips through his hands. The novel is a long confession on desire, speculation and the weakness of will in the capital's high society.

  26 chapters · About 688 minutes of published text

• Lord Jim

  By Joseph Conrad

  Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past and seeking redemption and acceptance.

  45 chapters · About 561 minutes of published text

• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

  By R. D. Blackmore

  Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a historical novel by R. D. Blackmore, first published in three volumes in London in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

  75 chapters · About 1179 minutes of published text

• Los argonautas

  By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  A Spanish writer sails from Europe to Buenos Aires on a great liner crowded with emigrants, adventurers and fortune-seekers bound for the New World. Over the long crossing, shipboard friendships, flirtations and stories trace the hopes Spain and Europe pin on South America.

  12 chapters · About 888 minutes of published text

• Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis

  By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  Julio Desnoyers, the pampered heir of a fortune made on the Argentine pampas, lives a fashionable idle life in Paris until the summer of 1914 brings war to France. The novel follows a family with French and German branches as the war overtakes them all.

  15 chapters · About 569 minutes of published text

• Los pazos de Ulloa

  By Emilia Pardo Bazán

  A young priest comes to the decaying manor of Ulloa in Galicia, where a coarse squire lives with his servant and a hidden family. Pardo Bazán's naturalist novel sets the priest's innocence against the cruelty, vice and beauty of the Galician countryside.

  29 chapters · About 362 minutes of published text