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• Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro

  By Rafael Sabatini

  Early in the sixteenth century, in the hill country of Urbino under Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, a young lord makes a vow, a fortress is besieged, and love and feud grow tangled. Rafael Sabatini's romance of swordplay and honour, 1907.

  25 chapters · About 366 minutes of published text

• Love's Labour's Lost

  By William Shakespeare

  The King of Navarre and three lords swear to give up women and study for three years, and the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies soon undoes their vow. The play is a festival of wordplay that ends, unusually for a comedy, with a sobering turn.

  5 chapters · About 98 minutes of published text

• Lucíola

  By José de Alencar

  Lucíola is an urban fiction novel written by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar. It was first published in 1862. It treats mainly of the late-nineteenth century Rio de Janeiro society, exploring its deficient morality. This novel is said to be influenced by Alexandre Dumas' novel The Lady of the Camellias.

  20 chapters · About 200 minutes of published text

• Ludwig Bechsteins Märchenbuch: Mit 176 Holzschnitten nach Originalzeichnungen von Ludwig Richter

  By Ludwig Bechstein

  Ludwig Bechstein's collection of German fairy tales, for a long time more popular in German homes than the Grimms'. Nearly eighty stories of brave tailors, enchanted princesses, the seven Swabians, the land of Cockaigne and clever animals, many told with a light, humorous touch. This edition has Ludwig Richter's woodcut illustrations.

  79 chapters · About 475 minutes of published text

• Luzia-Homem

  By Domingos Olímpio

  In the Ceará backlands during the great drought of 1877 to 1879, Luzia, a strong and silent woman who works like a man, lives with her mother and refuses to be a woman as the town expects. Domingos Olímpio's novel is one of the key works of the north-eastern naturalist school.

  26 chapters · About 269 minutes of published text

• Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

  By William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  The 1798 volume that began English Romantic poetry puts Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere beside Wordsworth's ballads of country life, among them We Are Seven, The Thorn and The Idiot Boy. It closes with the lines written above Tintern Abbey, and the spelling is that of the first edition.

  23 chapters · About 89 minutes of published text

• Macbeth

  By William Shakespeare

  Macbeth is a thriller novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, a re-telling of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience. It is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. Macbeth was released in April 2018. The book tells the story of Macbeth in a Nordic noir, imaginary Fife during the 1970s.

  5 chapters · About 79 minutes of published text

• Madame Bovary

  By Gustave Flaubert

  Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province, pronounced [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), commonly known as simply Madame Bovary, is the début novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, originally published in 1856 and 1857. The eponymous character, Emma Bovary, lives beyond her means in order to escape the ennui of provincial life.

  35 chapters · About 488 minutes of published text

• Mahabhiniskramana

  By Kwee Tek Hoay

  A play in four parts on the Great Departure: Prince Siddhartha, in the garden of his father's palace beneath the Himalaya, leaves his wife, his child and his kingdom to seek the way that makes a Buddha. Kwee Tek Hoay wrote it for the Chinese Buddhist community of Java in 1937; the groom Channa and the horse Kantaka bring him as far as the forest.

  4 chapters · About 39 minutes of published text

• Major Barbara

  By Bernard Shaw

  Barbara Undershaft, a Salvation Army major, meets her estranged father, an arms manufacturer, and agrees to visit his model factory town if he will visit her shelter. The play pits her faith against his argument that poverty is the only real sin.

  3 chapters · About 142 minutes of published text

• Man and Superman

  By Bernard Shaw

  John Tanner, a rich radical writer named guardian of Ann Whitefield, believes he is the one man who will escape her pursuit. The play carries them from London to Spain and includes a long dream in Hell, "Don Juan in Hell", in which Shaw argues his ideas about the Life Force.

  4 chapters · About 249 minutes of published text

• Manon Lescaut

  By abbé Prévost

  The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). Their decision to live together without marriage is the start of a moral decline that also leads to gambling, fraud, theft, murder, and Manon's death as a deportee in New Orleans.

  2 chapters · About 249 minutes of published text

• Manon Lescaut

  By abbé Prévost

  The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). Their decision to live together without marriage is the start of a moral decline that also leads to gambling, fraud, theft, murder, and Manon's death as a deportee in New Orleans.

  13 chapters · About 271 minutes of published text

• Mansfield Park

  By Jane Austen

  Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.

  48 chapters · About 694 minutes of published text

• Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826

  By Wilhelm Hauff

  A caravan of merchants crosses the desert, and to pass the time each traveller tells a story. Among them are Caliph Stork, who forgets the magic word that would turn him back into a man, the ghost ship, and Little Muck with his magic slippers. Wilhelm Hauff's first fairy-tale almanac, opened by an allegory of the fairy tale itself.

  8 chapters · About 180 minutes of published text

• Mare nostrum

  By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  Ulises Ferragut, a Valencian sea captain who loves the Mediterranean and its myths, falls under the spell of a mysterious woman in Naples during the First World War. His passion draws him into the shadowy world of spies and the German submarine war at sea.

  12 chapters · About 627 minutes of published text

• Maria: En Bog om Kærlighed

  By Peter Nansen

  A worldly Copenhagen man, used to light affairs, meets young Maria and finds himself, for the first time, truly in love. In sixty-four short numbered sections he records their meetings, his happiness and his fear of losing it. Peter Nansen's slender, intense book is a companion to his Julies dagbog.

  64 chapters · About 72 minutes of published text

• Marianela

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Marianela, a plain, neglected girl, guides the blind young Pablo through the mining country around Socartes and is the only beauty he has ever known. When a surgeon restores his sight, the truth about her face threatens the love they share.

  22 chapters · About 220 minutes of published text

• Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

  By Walter Scott

  Lord Marmion, a knight of Henry VIII's court, carries a letter to the Scottish king, with a nun he has wronged hidden in his train, and rides to his death at the battle of Flodden in 1513. Each of Scott's six cantos opens with a verse letter to a friend.

  12 chapters · About 167 minutes of published text

• Martin Eden: romanzo

  By Jack London (translated by Gian Dàuli)

  Martin Eden, a young sailor with rough manners and a hungry mind, falls in love with Ruth Morse, a cultivated girl from a comfortable family, and sets out to educate himself and become a writer. Jack London's novel of ambition and class, in Gian Dauli's Italian translation.

  45 chapters · About 517 minutes of published text

• Marya

  By Eliza Orzeszkowa

  A woman who says she never dwells on the past, because action and the present absorb her, writes a long series of letters to a friend about her life, her views and the people around her. Orzeszkowa's early novel in letters (first published in 1866) is short and plain-spoken.

  26 chapters · About 222 minutes of published text

• Maud, and Other Poems

  By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  In Maud, a morbid young man tells in lyrics of rising and falling mood how he loves the daughter of his father's enemy, kills her brother in a duel, and goes mad before he finds a purpose in the Crimean War. The 1859 volume adds The Brook, The Letters, The Daisy and shorter poems.

  7 chapters · About 67 minutes of published text

• Max Havelaar: Of de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelsmaatschappy

  By Multatuli

  Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in Java, which was then a Dutch colony. The novel's opening line is famous: "Ik ben makelaar in koffie, en woon op de Lauriergracht, Nº 37." ("I am a coffee broker, and live on the Lauriergracht, Nº 37.").

  21 chapters · About 536 minutes of published text

• Measure for Measure

  By William Shakespeare

  Duke Vincentio of Vienna leaves the city in the hands of the strict Angelo and secretly stays to watch, disguised as a friar. When Angelo condemns young Claudio to death and offers to spare him if his sister Isabella gives herself up, the Duke has to arrange a very awkward justice.

  5 chapters · About 99 minutes of published text