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• O Romance de um Homem Rico

  By Camilo Castelo Branco

  The story of Álvaro Teixeira de Macedo, born in Lisbon in 1813 to a wealthy merchant, a boy who grows up without ever having said the word mother. Camilo follows his schooling, his money and his loves in a romantic novel of feeling set against the liberal turmoil of the day.

  20 chapters · About 193 minutes of published text

• O Seminarista

  By Bernardo Guimarães

  Eugênio and Margarida grow up as neighbours on the farms of the Minas Gerais countryside and fall in love as children, until Eugênio's parents decide that he must become a priest. Bernardo Guimarães's novel of 1872 sets a tender country romance against the Church's demands and is a classic of Brazilian romanticism.

  24 chapters · About 171 minutes of published text

• O Sertanejo

  By José de Alencar

  In the backlands of Ceará in the eighteenth century, the cowhand Arnaldo Louredo serves a rich cattle rancher and is devoted to his daughter, Dona Flor, while a rival of the family plots against him. José de Alencar's novel is a cattle-country epic of cowboys, droughts and loyalty, written in his late years.

  42 chapters · About 413 minutes of published text

• Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space

  By Jules Verne

  A comet grazes the Earth and carries off a piece of Algeria, with a small group of French and English people on it. Jules Verne's 1877 novel is a comic space voyage around the solar system.

  43 chapters · About 435 minutes of published text

• Ogniem i mieczem

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  In 1647 the Polish knight Jan Skrzetuski loves Helena Kurcewiczówna, and Bohun, a Zaporozhian Cossack, loves her too; the rivalry opens the great Cossack uprising of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. The first book of Sienkiewicz's Trilogy follows the sieges, charges and betrayals of the war on the eastern borderlands.

  64 chapters · About 1075 minutes of published text

• Oliver Twist

  By Charles Dickens

  Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows orphan Oliver Twist, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family.

  53 chapters · About 680 minutes of published text

• Olocausto

  By Alfredo Oriani

  Leaving a cheap Florentine eating house after a good dinner, a stranger is stopped in the street by a woman who offers to take him to a girl. Told over five days and an aftermath, Oriani's stark novel follows a poor household that sacrifices its daughter Tina to need, and those who look on.

  6 chapters · About 183 minutes of published text

• On the Nature of Things

  By Titus Lucretius Carus (translated by William Ellery Leonard)

  Lucretius's Latin poem sets out the atomic philosophy of Epicurus, arguing that the world was made by no god, that the soul dies with the body, and that the fear of death and of the gods is groundless. William Ellery Leonard's blank-verse translation of 1916 gives each section a heading that states its argument.

  27 chapters · About 315 minutes of published text

• Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca

  By Júlio Dinis

  In a village of northern Portugal the old manor called the Casa Mourisca is slipping into debt, and its proud noble family must deal with a rich farmer who is rising as they fall. Júlio Dinis's chronicle of the countryside weighs old blood against new money and sets two love stories in the gap between them.

  37 chapters · About 615 minutes of published text

• Os Maias: episodios da vida romantica

  By Eça de Queirós

  Carlos da Maia, the gifted heir of an old Lisbon family, comes home a doctor with plans for a brilliant life and settles instead into the idle, witty society of 1870s Lisbon. When a beautiful and mysterious woman arrives in the city, his story becomes entangled with his family's past. Eça de Queirós's great panorama of a class and a country drifting.

  18 chapters · About 922 minutes of published text

• Os Pobres: Precedido de uma Carta-Prefacio de Guerra Junqueiro

  By Raul Brandão

  Raul Brandão's book of the poor and outcast of a Portuguese town, a gallery of beggars, old men, fallen women and dreamers bound together by misery and tenderness. It opens with a prefatory letter from the poet Guerra Junqueiro.

  26 chapters · About 172 minutes of published text

• Os Trabalhadores do Mar

  By Victor Hugo (translated by Machado de Assis)

  Machado de Assis's Portuguese translation of Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea. On Guernsey, the solitary fisherman Gilliatt is promised the hand of a shipowner's niece if he can recover the engine of a steamer wrecked on a reef, and he goes out alone against the sea.

  97 chapters · About 497 minutes of published text

• Othello

  By William Shakespeare

  Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, secretly marries Desdemona and is then drawn into a plot by his ensign Iago, who feeds him false proofs of her infidelity. Jealousy turns a trusted soldier into her murderer, and the truth comes out too late.

  5 chapters · About 121 minutes of published text

• Our Mutual Friend

  By Charles Dickens

  Our Mutual Friend, published in 1864–1865, is the fourteenth and final novel completed by English author Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting the book's character Bella Wilfer, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life".

  67 chapters · About 1410 minutes of published text

• Pan Wołodyjowski

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Michał Wołodyjowski, the small and peerless swordsman of the borderland, hopes for a quiet marriage after years of war, but a young widow, a rival and a new invasion from the Turks make it hard to find peace. The last book of the Trilogy brings the three friends of the earlier volumes to the siege of Kamieniec in 1672.

  58 chapters · About 708 minutes of published text

• Papeis Avulsos

  By Machado de Assis

  Machado de Assis's 1882 collection, which opens with O Alienista, in which a doctor founds an asylum in a small town and begins locking up more and more of its people. The other stories are ironic tales of vanity, ambition and human nature.

  12 chapters · About 232 minutes of published text

• Papin tytär

  By Juhani Aho

  Elli grows up in a country rectory, a spirited girl whose imagination finds little room in her strict father's house. A summer visit by a young student wakes hopes in her that the life planned for a pastor's daughter cannot hold. Aho's early novel is a quiet study of a girl shaped by what is expected of her.

  21 chapters · About 118 minutes of published text

• Paradise Lost

  By John Milton

  Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets.

  12 chapters · About 347 minutes of published text

• Pasarse de listo

  By Juan Valera

  A light comedy of Madrid society in which a clever, calculating man overreaches himself and is caught in his own schemes. Valera's novel of 1877 pokes fun at those who are too clever by half.

  22 chapters · About 220 minutes of published text

• Pêcheur d'Islande

  By Pierre Loti

  Every year the fishermen of Paimpol in Brittany sail to the cold seas off Iceland for the cod season. Gaud, a girl of the town, loves the tall fisherman Yann, who seems to love only the sea.

  55 chapters · About 239 minutes of published text

• Peñas arriba

  By José María de Pereda

  Marcelo, a young man from Madrid, travels up into the Cantabrian mountains to the old family house of his uncle and finds a way of life he had forgotten. Pereda's late novel is a hymn to the highlands and the old patriarchal values.

  34 chapters · About 585 minutes of published text

• Pepita Jiménez

  By Juan Valera

  A young seminarian returns to his Andalusian village and falls for the beautiful young widow Pepita Jiménez, his father's friend. Valera tells it as letters, then as a narrator's account, a gentle study of faith and desire.

  3 chapters · About 245 minutes of published text

• Perdita kaj retrovita: originala rakonto

  By Emile Boirac

  An original Esperanto fairy tale by Émile Boirac, published in 1904. Diskareso, a proud and ill-tempered king, crosses a sorceress while out hunting, and the harm that follows falls on his gentle queen and their two children, Rozlilio and Orludviko. Nine short chapters in lyrical prose carry the family toward the hope of the title, which means lost and found.

  9 chapters · About 21 minutes of published text

• Pericla Navarchi Magonis; sive, Expeditio Phoenicia Annis Ante Christum Mille

  By David-Léon Cahun (translated by Arcadius Avellanus)

  The Sidonian sea captain Mago tells how King Hiram of Tyre sent him west to Tartessus for silver and rare goods for the temple King David means to build in Jerusalem. With his scribe Hanno, his old pilot Himilco and a Tyrian sailor, Bodmilcar, who bears Hanno a grudge, he sets out on a voyage of trade, danger and discovery around the year 1000 BC. Léon Cahun's adventure novel, put into Latin by Arcadius Avellanus.

  23 chapters · About 394 minutes of published text