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Noveller
By Minna Canth (translated by Hanna Lindberg)
Minna Canth's short fiction in a Swedish translation of her own day, opening with her brief account of her life. A nursemaid in service, a girl sent away from home, the free-thinking Agnes and an old maid on the edge of town show the narrow choices open to women in nineteenth-century Finland.
11 chapters · About 157 minutes of published text
Numa e a Ninfa
By Lima Barreto
Numa Pompílio de Castro, a modest official, rises to be a deputy through a clever marriage to Edgarda, the daughter of a powerful politician, while the Chamber debates a proposal for a new state of the federation. Lima Barreto's satire of 1915 shows the republic's political machinery at work.
10 chapters · About 256 minutes of published text
Nuvele
By I. L. Caragiale
Five novellas by Caragiale, the great Romanian satirist, here in his darker and more fantastic vein. A young priest falls into a forbidden love, an innkeeper's brother turns bandit in wartime, a devil comes to live among men as a Greek merchant, a traveller lingers at an inn kept by a bewitching widow, and a Jewish innkeeper waits in terror for Easter night.
5 chapters · About 144 minutes of published text
O Anel Misterioso
By Alberto Pimentel
A historical novel of the Peninsular War that opens in Porto with a popular type of the town, a man nicknamed the Desgraça, known to the street boys for his run of misfortunes. A mysterious ring and a manuscript lead through the years of French occupation.
21 chapters · About 239 minutes of published text
O Atheneu (chronica de saudades)
By Raul Pompéia
Sérgio looks back on his years as a boarder at the Ateneu, a prestigious school in Rio de Janeiro ruled by its vain headmaster Aristarco. Raul Pompeia's novel portrays the school as a small society of rivalries, friendships and hypocrisy.
12 chapters · About 264 minutes of published text
O Bem e o Mal
By Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo introduces Ladislau Tibério Militão de Vila Cova, born near Pinhel in 1818, the only son of a widower who became a friar and left the boy to an uncle in the priesthood. The novel follows the education and the temptations of a man formed in a house of priests.
19 chapters · About 226 minutes of published text
O Bobo
By Alexandre Herculano
After the death of Afonso VI of León the barons of the peninsula quarrel over the succession, and the young Afonso Henriques is about to take on the Portuguese lands of his mother, Countess Teresa. Herculano's historical novel sees these events through the court jester of the title and the people around him.
15 chapters · About 239 minutes of published text
O Cabeleira
By Franklin Távora
O Cabeleira (English: Cabeleira) is an 1876 novel by Brazilian Romantic author Franklin Távora. Set in Pernambuco, during the 18th century, the novel tells the story of the cangaceiro José Gomes (a.k.a. "Cabeleira") and his father Joaquim, and their adventures at the sertão of the Brazilian Northeast.
18 chapters · About 219 minutes of published text
O Cortiço
By Aluísio Azevedo
O Cortiço ('The Slum') is an influential Brazilian novel written in 1890 by Aluísio Azevedo. The novel depicts a part of Brazil's culture in the late 19th century, represented by a variety of colorful characters living in a single Rio de Janeiro tenement. It is written with the intention of belonging to the Realism movement leaning towards Naturalism, much like Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
23 chapters · About 346 minutes of published text
O crime do padre Amaro, scenas da vida devota
By Eça de Queirós
Amaro, a young priest who never wanted the calling, is sent to the provincial town of Leiria and lodges with a pious widow and her pretty daughter Amélia. Eça de Queirós's first novel follows the attraction between them and the hypocrisy of the clerical circle around them.
25 chapters · About 599 minutes of published text
O Esqueleto
By Camilo Castelo Branco
Between 1834 and 1839 a beautiful Frenchwoman living in a villa outside Porto with a Portuguese nobleman was the talk of the town, and no one knew where she came from. Camilo builds a dark, melodramatic mystery around the secret of her past.
27 chapters · About 242 minutes of published text
O Garimpeiro
By Bernardo Guimarães
Bernardo Guimarães opens in the lovely country of Araxá, Patrocínio and Bagagem in Minas Gerais, where the garimpeiros, the free diamond-hunters, work the rivers. The novel follows a young prospector, love, rivalry and the lure of the stone, with an eye for the landscape of the interior.
17 chapters · About 190 minutes of published text
O Gaúcho
By José de Alencar
José de Alencar's novel of the gaucho country opens on the plains by the River Uruguay and moves into the troubled years of the Farroupilha war in Rio Grande do Sul. It is a tale of horsemen, border quarrels and the pull between love and loyalty.
53 chapters · About 307 minutes of published text
O Homem
By Aluísio Azevedo
Magdá, a councillor's daughter in Rio de Janeiro, grows up nervous, wilful and intensely loved, and her family's doctor takes an interest in her. Aluísio Azevedo's novel of 1887 is a naturalist study of a woman's passion and the medicine and morals of her day.
21 chapters · About 233 minutes of published text
O krasnoludkach i o sierotce Marysi
By Maria Konopnicka
Marysia, a poor orphan, is sent to mind a flock of ducks and meets the dwarfs who live under the earth, and they take her into their world. Konopnicka's classic tale for children carries her through a long, wandering adventure among dwarfs, animals and wicked folk.
45 chapters · About 200 minutes of published text
O Mandarim
By Eça de Queirós
The Mandarin is a novella on the sin of avarice by José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845–1900), also known as Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in Portuguese in 1880. The first English version, translated by Richard Franko Goldman, was published by The Bodley Head in 1965. A translation by Margaret Jull Costa was published by Dedalus Books in 1993. A revised version was published by Dedalus in 2009, together with three short stories.
8 chapters · About 84 minutes of published text
O Missionário
By Inglês de Sousa
Father Antônio de Morais, a young and ardent priest, arrives in the Amazon river town of Silves to convert the Indian peoples of the interior, with a pious scheme in his head and no knowledge of the region. Inglês de Sousa's naturalist novel of 1891 follows him as the forest, the town's people and his own senses test his vows.
14 chapters · About 457 minutes of published text
O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra
By Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão
Two young writers, Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão, published this in 1870 as anonymous letters to the editor of Lisbon's Diário de Notícias, reporting a baffling crime on the road to Sintra. It is a detective story that mocks the sensational serials of the day, written for the pleasure of the joke and of the puzzle.
44 chapters · About 281 minutes of published text
O Moço Loiro
By Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
On the afternoon of 6 August 1844 in Rio de Janeiro, a fair-haired young man comes to the fore and his appearance sets in motion an intrigue of families, wills and love affairs. Macedo's second novel, after A Moreninha, is a lively, sentimental story of Rio society in the 1840s.
42 chapters · About 502 minutes of published text
O Mulato
By Aluísio Azevedo
O Mulato (English: The Mulatto) is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Aluísio de Azevedo. It was first published in 1881 and represents the beginning of Brazilian Naturalism. The movement peaked at the end of the 19th century, and sought to portray reality in a raw and objective way, often focusing on less explored aspects of society. Aluísio de Azevedo was one of the precursors of this movement in Brazil, and the work is often cited as one of the first naturalist novels in the country. O Mulato denounces the racial discrimination of the late nineteenth century society of the Brazilian state of São Luís, Maranhão.
19 chapters · About 415 minutes of published text
O Olho de Vidro
By Camilo Castelo Branco
In 1697 a physician, Francisco Luís de Abreu, moves with his wife to Coimbra hoping for a chair at the university, and they bring up a small boy, Brás, as a godson. Camilo's historical novel moves from this quiet beginning into the dangers of a Portugal where families of Jewish descent were watched.
24 chapters · About 179 minutes of published text
O Primo Bazilio: Episodio Domestico
By Eça de Queirós
While her husband is away on business, Luísa, a young Lisbon wife with a head full of romantic novels, receives a visit from her charming cousin Basílio, just back from abroad. An affair begins, and a resentful maid finds out about it.
16 chapters · About 501 minutes of published text
O Que Fazem Mulheres
By Camilo Castelo Branco
A mother in Porto asks her daughter Ludovina if she has thought what to say to her father, who has found her a husband she has not yet seen. Camilo's philosophical romance follows the women of a middle-class household and what they do in the face of a match made for them.
17 chapters · About 166 minutes of published text
O Regicida
By Camilo Castelo Branco
In 1634 in Guimarães, the cutler António Leite's seventeen-year-old son Domingos refuses both his father's trade and the cloister his mother has in mind, and sets his heart on being an apothecary. Camilo's historical romance, one of his Romances Nacionaes, follows the restless boy into the turbulent years around the Restoration of 1640.
21 chapters · About 227 minutes of published text