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Meir Ezofowicz
By Eliza Orzeszkowa
Meir Ezofowicz, a young man from a family of just men, returns to his small town in the east of old Poland with a mind full of books and ideas and tries to reform its rabbis, its customs and its schooling. Orzeszkowa's novel draws a closed community and the cost of the one who tries to open it.
10 chapters · About 428 minutes of published text
Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias
By Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Leonardo, born in Rio de Janeiro in the days when King João VI held court there, is the son of a Portuguese emigrant and a girl he met on the ship out, whose courtship began with a pinch and a trodden foot. Manuel Antônio de Almeida's picaresque novel follows the scamp through the streets, parties and petty officialdom of the old city, with an ear for its speech and a smile for its rogues.
48 chapters · About 259 minutes of published text
Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas
By Machado de Assis
Brás Cubas, a wealthy man of no great achievement, writes his memoirs from beyond the grave, beginning with his own funeral. In short, playful chapters he recalls his indulged childhood, his loves and his failed ambitions, with an irony that spares no one, least of all himself.
159 chapters · About 263 minutes of published text
Memutuskan Pertalian
By Tulis Sutan Sati
Kasim, a teacher in Bukittinggi, lives happily with his wife until her mother's interference and the claims of the maternal uncles under Minangkabau custom come between them. Tulis Sutan Sati's novel weighs the household against adat as the marriage is pulled apart and a child has to be fetched back.
7 chapters · About 81 minutes of published text
Menazerya ludzka
By Gabriela Zapolska
Twelve sharp sketches by Gabriela Zapolska, each named for the pet animal its subject is likened to: the little frog, the kitten, the scapegoat, the mongrel, the cuckoo, the parrot, the doves and others. Behind the endearments she shows the vanity, hypocrisy and quiet cruelty of middle-class marriages and households.
12 chapters · About 190 minutes of published text
Menschenwee: Roman van het land
By Is. Querido
In the market gardens and bulb fields near the Dutch coast, labourers like Dirk dig, plant and harvest through wind and rain for very little. Querido's long naturalist novel follows the families who work the land through the seasons of toil, hunger, drink and quarrels.
24 chapters · About 1036 minutes of published text
Mesnevî-i Şerîf, 1. Defter
By Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî (translated by Ahmed Avni Konuk)
Rumi opens the Masnavi with the reed flute's lament for the reed bed it was cut from, then teaches through stories: the king and the slave girl, the parrot and the grocer, the lion and the hares. Ahmed Avni Konuk gives the first book's four thousand couplets in plain Turkish, fifty at a time.
80 chapters · About 243 minutes of published text
Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and struggles to adjust to this condition, as does his family. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, who have offered varied interpretations. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach.
3 chapters · About 95 minutes of published text
Miau
By Benito Pérez Galdós
Miau is a realist novel by Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, released in 1888. It tells a story about a lower-middle class family of Madrid in the 19th century. The main character is Ramón Villaamil, an ex-employee from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He lives with his wife doña Pura, his sister-in-law Milagros, his daughter Abelarda, his grandson Luis Cadalso, and his detestable son-in-law Víctor Cadalso. Víctor's wife, Luisa Villaamil, who is dead, was the mother of Luis.
44 chapters · About 420 minutes of published text
Middlemarch
By George Eliot
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight paper-bound instalments from December 1871 to December 1872, with a book version in four volumes published in parallel (the first volume is dated 1871 and the other three are dated 1872).
86 chapters · About 1372 minutes of published text
Milton: The Shorter Poems
By John Milton
The shorter poems of Milton, from the twin pictures of mirth and melancholy in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso to the masque Comus, the elegy Lycidas and the sonnets 'On His Blindness' and 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont'. The Nativity ode is not in this text, because the editor's notes repeat its title.
22 chapters · About 61 minutes of published text
Minna
By Karl Gjellerup
A young Dane, Harald Fenger, takes lodgings in Dresden and comes to know Minna, a gentle and gifted German girl living in modest circumstances. Told by Harald years afterwards, the story follows their love through summer outings, misunderstandings, pride and the arrival of a rival. Gjellerup's best-loved novel, a love story set against the landscape of Saxony.
42 chapters · About 403 minutes of published text
Misericordia
By Benito Pérez Galdós
Benina, a poor servant, begs in the church doorways of Madrid to feed the ruined mistress she serves, and her humble charity shames everyone around her. Galdós's late novel finds the saint in the street and is often counted among his finest.
41 chapters · About 364 minutes of published text
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
By Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth.
135 chapters · About 903 minutes of published text
Modern: En Berättelse
By Victoria Benedictsson and Axel Lundegård
On a grey October morning a young man waits at Stockholm's Central Station for the mother he has not seen in years, a tall, worldly woman who spent two decades touring with an anatomical museum, and he dreads what she will turn out to be. Victoria Benedictsson and Axel Lundegård's novel of 1888 follows what happens when she comes into his life.
13 chapters · About 268 minutes of published text
Mohamed Ali Pacha
By Gouw Peng Liang
A poor German bookseller's boy, Julius Werner, leaves his country and becomes in time Mohamed Ali Pasha, a soldier in the Ottoman service who commands the Albanians in their rising against the Porte. Gouw Peng Liang's tale of 1917, told in the Malay of the Peranakan Chinese press, ends with the commander's death through the treachery of his own captains.
32 chapters · About 226 minutes of published text
Moloks leende: roman
By Daniel Berg
A young man from a modest background is drawn into the circles of Stockholm's rich and well-connected, where money, ambition and family pride set the terms of every friendship and love. Daniel Berg's novel, whose title names the old god of sacrifice, follows him through twenty-six chapters of dinners, deals and disappointments.
26 chapters · About 228 minutes of published text
Monday or Tuesday
By Virginia Woolf
Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. It contains eight stories:
9 chapters · About 78 minutes of published text
Monte-Criston kreivi
By Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet (translated by Jalmari Finne)
Edmond Dantès, a young sailor of Marseille about to be made captain and married, is betrayed by jealous rivals and locked in the island fortress of the Château d'If without trial. Years later a mysterious and immensely rich Count of Monte Cristo appears in Paris society. Dumas's great novel of injustice and revenge, in Jalmari Finne's Finnish translation.
115 chapters · About 1417 minutes of published text
Mooses ja hänen hevosensa: Romaani
By Heikki Meriläinen
Mooses is not yet ten when a foal is born in the stable of his father's posting inn at Honkaniemi, and boy and horse grow up together. As the years pass the old life of the coaching road gives way, a railway is laid across the parish, and the family's fortunes change with it. A warm country novel about a man, his horses and a changing village.
16 chapters · About 322 minutes of published text
Mosses from an old manse
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1846 collection includes The Birth-Mark, Young Goodman Brown and Rappaccini's Daughter. The tales move from a sunlit parsonage to dark allegory and strange science.
30 chapters · About 634 minutes of published text
Mr. Standfast
By John Buchan
Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.
22 chapters · About 556 minutes of published text
Mrs. Warren's Profession
By Bernard Shaw
Vivie Warren, a clear-headed young Cambridge graduate, discovers that her mother's comfortable income comes from managing a chain of brothels. Shaw's play, once banned from the stage, argues that the real guilt belongs to a society that pays women so little.
4 chapters · About 106 minutes of published text
Much Ado about Nothing
By William Shakespeare
In Messina the sparring Beatrice and Benedick are tricked by their friends into believing each loves the other, while the young Claudio is deceived into rejecting Hero at the altar. Dogberry's bumbling watch eventually uncovers the villain's plot.
5 chapters · About 98 minutes of published text