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• My Ántonia

  By Willa Cather

  My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. The first year in the very new place leaves strong impressions on both children, affecting them for life.

  45 chapters · About 347 minutes of published text

• Na polu chwały

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  A historical novel of the seventeenth-century Polish gentry, which opens on a frozen night as a laden sleigh with an armed escort crosses a wolf-haunted forest road. Sienkiewicz, in a book of 1906, leads his people from the manors of the borderland to the wars of the Commonwealth.

  29 chapters · About 342 minutes of published text

• Na śmierć, 1863

  By Jan Gnatowski

  A short novel of the January Uprising of 1863, told by Janio, a boy of eight living with his mother in Kiev. His older brother Staś has been arrested and held in the fortress, and from the whispering women, secret visitors and his mother's days in government offices the child slowly learns what is at stake.

  5 chapters · About 27 minutes of published text

• Nang Bata Pa Kami

  By Pura Medrano

  Manuel reminds Edeng of the days when they were small children living almost across the street from each other, and a shy smile from her window first stirred a feeling he could not name. Told as a string of brief remembrances, the book follows that childish attachment as it grows into a love both of them keep half hidden. A short novel of 1913, published with a foreword by Asuncion Palma.

  11 chapters · About 33 minutes of published text

• Narracions estranyes: ¡Oydà! - L'ull acusador - L'embaixada de la mort

  By Antoni Careta y Vidal

  Three long tales by Antoni Careta y Vidal, the first told by an old soldier who promises the most remarkable event of his life without a word added. The others, The Accusing Eye and The Embassy of Death, turn on crime, conscience and the uncanny.

  3 chapters · About 120 minutes of published text

• Natalika

  By Lafcadio Hearn (translated by Karin Hirn)

  Lafcadio Hearn's retellings of old legends from Egypt, India, Buddhist scripture, Persian and Arab tradition and the Talmud, in a Swedish translation by Karin Hirn. Spirits, kings, lovers and holy men pass through short, polished tales of wonder and justice.

  24 chapters · About 144 minutes of published text

• Nazarín

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  A poor priest in Madrid tries to live the Gospel to the letter, giving away what little he has and walking the roads of La Mancha with two troubled women who follow him. Galdós's Christ-like hero meets the scorn of the world with a gentle, stubborn charity.

  34 chapters · About 273 minutes of published text

• Negrinha

  By Monteiro Lobato

  Short stories by Monteiro Lobato, opening with the title story of a little orphan girl brought up in the house of a rich widow, one of his best known and most bitter. The collection of 1920 also holds Fitas da Vida, O Drama da Geada, O Jardineiro Timóteo and O Colocador de Pronomes.

  6 chapters · About 65 minutes of published text

• Niamh

  By Peter O'Leary

  Niamh, daughter of the chieftain Tadhg Mór, comes of age in the years before the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, when Brian Boru is high king and Sitric of Dublin, the Norsemen and the king of Leinster are plotting against him. Her fortunes and those of the young men around her are caught up in the intrigues that carry the country toward the great battle. A historical novel by An tAthair Peadar Ua Laoghaire, one of the leading prose writers of the Gaelic revival.

  59 chapters · About 476 minutes of published text

• Nicholas Nickleby

  By Charles Dickens

  Nicholas Nickleby, or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, is the third novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.

  65 chapters · About 1392 minutes of published text

• Niebla (Nivola)

  By Miguel de Unamuno

  Augusto Pérez, a wealthy and idle young man, follows a woman down the street on a whim and stumbles into love, doubt and a crisis about his own existence. Unamuno calls the book a nivola, and it plays openly with the line between a character and the author who writes him.

  33 chapters · About 233 minutes of published text

• Noli Me Tangere

  By José Rizal (translated by Pascual Hicaro Poblete)

  Crisóstomo Ibarra returns to Manila after seven years of study in Europe, hoping to build a school in his home town and marry the beautiful María Clara. Instead he runs into the power of the friars, the gossip of the town and a web of old crimes that reaches back to his own father. Rizal's founding novel of the Philippines, in the 1900s Tagalog translation of Pascual H. Poblete.

  60 chapters · About 756 minutes of published text

• Noli me tangere: Filippijnsche roman

  By José Rizal (translated by Abraham Anthony Fokker)

  Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late 19th century.

  61 chapters · About 590 minutes of published text

• Noli me tángere: Novela Tagala, Edición completa con notas de R. Sempau

  By José Rizal

  Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late 19th century.

  63 chapters · About 593 minutes of published text

• North and South

  By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

  North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1866) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). At first, Gaskell wanted the novel to be titled after the heroine, Margaret Hale, but Charles Dickens, the editor of Household Words, the magazine in which the novel was serialised, insisted on North and South.

  52 chapters · About 785 minutes of published text

• Northanger Abbey

  By Jane Austen

  Northanger Abbey, written by the English author Jane Austen, is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels. Although the title page is dated 1818 and the novel was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion, Northanger Abbey was completed in 1799. From a fondness of Gothic novels and an active imagination distorting her worldview, the story follows Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, as she develops a better understanding of herself and the world around her.

  31 chapters · About 335 minutes of published text

• Notes from the Underground

  By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

  A bitter retired civil servant in St Petersburg writes his confession from beneath the floorboards of society. Dostoevsky's 1864 short novel, in Constance Garnett's translation, is a harsh and funny monologue against reason and comfort.

  21 chapters · About 191 minutes of published text

• Notre-Dame de Paris

  By Victor Hugo

  In Paris in 1482, the dancer Esmeralda draws the eyes of the city, of a tormented archdeacon and of Quasimodo, the deaf bell-ringer of Notre-Dame. Hugo sets their fates against a richly drawn medieval city and its cathedral.

  59 chapters · About 739 minutes of published text

• Notre-Dame de Paris

  By Victor Hugo (translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood)

  In fifteenth-century Paris, a gypsy dancer, a priest, a captain and the bell-ringer Quasimodo are bound together beneath the cathedral. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, in Isabel Hapgood's translation.

  59 chapters · About 798 minutes of published text

• Novelas do Minho

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  Four novellas by Camilo Castelo Branco from the first volume of the collection: Gracejos que Matam, set in the spa of Caldas de Vizela in 1851, O Comendador, O Cego de Landim and A Morgada de Romariz. Country manners, old rivalries and sharp love stories of northern Portugal in a style that is by turns comic and tragic.

  4 chapters · About 197 minutes of published text

• Novelas ejemplares

  By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  Cervantes's exemplary novels, short tales that range from love and adventure to satire and the low life of Seville, among them the story of the gypsy girl Preciosa and the dialogue of two talking dogs. Together they show the variety of storytelling in Spain's Golden Age.

  11 chapters · About 813 minutes of published text

• Novelle

  By Edmondo De Amicis

  Seven long stories by the author of Cuore, among them Gli amici di collegio, Camilla, Furio and La casa paterna. De Amicis writes about school friendships, first love, family ties and homecoming with his familiar tenderness.

  7 chapters · About 318 minutes of published text

• Novelle e paesi valdostani

  By Giuseppe Giacosa

  Stories and sketches of the Aosta Valley by the playwright Giuseppe Giacosa: mountain guides, hunters, a priest, a mine and a village minuet sit beside pieces on local traditions, legends, hermits and the snow. Together they make a portrait of an Alpine region in the 1880s.

  17 chapters · About 301 minutes of published text

• Novelle lombarde

  By Avancinio Avancini

  Twelve stories of mountain villages and small towns in Lombardy, from a courtship arranged after dark to a winter tale, a village feast and the troubles of old Papa Gedeone. Peasants, woodcutters, priests and shopkeepers appear in sketches that move between humour and pathos.

  12 chapters · About 116 minutes of published text