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• Persuasion

  By Jane Austen

  Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published with Northanger Abbey on 20 December 1817, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a 27-year-old Englishwoman whose family moves to Bath to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their estate to an admiral and his wife. Eight years before, Anne and the wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged, but Anne had been persuaded by her friends and family to break the engagement. Now Anne and Captain Wentworth meet again, setting the scene for the story.

  24 chapters · About 362 minutes of published text

• Peter Pan

  By J. M. Barrie

  Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by British novelist J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two younger brothers John and Michael, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family.

  17 chapters · About 204 minutes of published text

• Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

  By Adelbert von Chamisso

  A young man down on his luck sells his shadow to a mysterious grey gentleman in return for a purse that never runs out of gold. He soon finds that, rich or not, a man without a shadow is shunned everywhere. Chamisso's short, strange and very influential Romantic tale.

  11 chapters · About 88 minutes of published text

• Placówka

  By Bolesław Prus

  Ślimak, a Polish peasant, clings to his small farm while a German colonist, a landlord and a changing countryside lean on him to sell. Prus's short, plain novel of stubbornness and loss sets one family against the forces of the new age.

  11 chapters · About 314 minutes of published text

• Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series

  By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (translated by Julius West)

  Eight of Chekhov's plays, from the one-act farces The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear and The Anniversary to the full-length The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. The sisters long for Moscow while their lives slip by in a provincial town, and a family loses its orchard to a merchant's axe.

  8 chapters · About 286 minutes of published text

• Plays: Trifles, The Outside, The Verge, Inheritors

  By Susan Glaspell

  Four plays written for the Provincetown Players: the one-act murder mystery Trifles, the stark Cape Cod drama The Outside, the experimental The Verge, and Inheritors, set at a Midwestern college. Each is one chapter.

  4 chapters · About 249 minutes of published text

• Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

  By Robert Burns

  The poems and songs of Scotland's national poet, arranged year by year from his boyhood verses in 1771 to his death in 1796. The Scots words are kept as he wrote them, and the notes gloss the hard ones.

  18 chapters · About 506 minutes of published text

• Poems by Emily Dickinson (Three Series)

  By Emily Dickinson

  The poems of Emily Dickinson as her friends Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson first printed them in 1890, 1891 and 1896, gathered into three series. Each series is arranged under the headings Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity.

  14 chapters · About 131 minutes of published text

• Poems by William Cullen Bryant

  By William Cullen Bryant

  William Cullen Bryant's poems on American woods, rivers and prairies, from Thanatopsis and To a Waterfowl to The Death of the Flowers, with his translations from the Spanish, German and Provençal. They helped found a native American poetry in the first half of the 19th century.

  102 chapters · About 191 minutes of published text

• Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  By Oscar Wilde

  Wilde's collected poems, from the early sonnets and Italian pieces through Charmides and The Sphinx to The Ballad of Reading Gaol, his last and best-known poem. That ballad was written after his two years in prison and is a plea against the cruelty of the death penalty.

  80 chapters · About 160 minutes of published text

• Poil de Carotte

  By Jules Renard

  Poil de Carotte (transl. Carrot Top) is a long short story or autobiographical novel by Jules Renard published in 1894 which recounts the childhood and the trials of a redheaded child. It is probably in this miserable childhood story where one should look for the origins of Renard's skepticism and irony, his skill in using litotes, his dense and precise styles.

  49 chapters · About 143 minutes of published text

• Pollyanna

  By Eleanor H. Porter

  Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.

  32 chapters · About 241 minutes of published text

• Popioły

  By Stefan Żeromski

  Young Rafał Olbromski goes from the manor of his family to the Napoleonic wars, hoping that the Emperor will give Poland back its freedom, while his brother and the woman he loves are drawn into the same fires. Żeromski's wide historical novel follows the Polish Legions from Spain to Moscow and shows what they cost.

  60 chapters · About 982 minutes of published text

• Potop

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Andrzej Kmicic, a reckless young colonel with a taste for brawls, falls in love with Oleńka Billewiczówna and then, by his own blunders, falls into the service of a traitor as Sweden overruns Poland in 1655. The second book of the Trilogy turns him from a rogue into a defender of the shrine of Częstochowa and of his king.

  97 chapters · About 1700 minutes of published text

• Povești

  By Ioan Slavici

  Seven Romanian folk tales retold by Ioan Slavici, among them Zâna zorilor (The Fairy of the Dawn), Florița din codru, Ileana cea șireată, the trickster Păcală in his own village, Petrea the simpleton and Limir the emperor. Princes ride enchanted horses past dragons and the houses of the saints, clever girls outwit the proud, and fools prove wiser than the wise.

  7 chapters · About 220 minutes of published text

• Presten som ikke kunde brukes

  By Carl E. Nordberg

  In a Norwegian-American Lutheran congregation in Glenfield, the faithful pastor Reierson is eased out because his flock wants a younger man with better English and more modern ways. His successor arrives to a grand welcome, but the new manners soon divide the parish. A gently satirical picture of immigrant church life in rural America.

  7 chapters · About 98 minutes of published text

• Pride and Prejudice

  By Jane Austen

  Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was aged 20–21, it was her third novel written and became the second to see print when it was published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.

  61 chapters · About 531 minutes of published text

• Professor Unrat, oder, Das Ende eines Tyrannen

  By Heinrich Mann

  Raat, a tyrannical schoolmaster in a north German town whom his pupils call Unrat, tries to catch his students at a disreputable harbour cabaret. Instead he falls for the singer Rosa Fröhlich, and his fall turns into a strange revenge on the town that mocked him. The novel behind the film The Blue Angel.

  17 chapters · About 263 minutes of published text

• Putkinotko: Kuvaus laiskasta viinarokarista ja tuhmasta herrasta

  By Joel Lehtonen

  Putkinotko is a ramshackle croft in the lake country of southern Savo, home to Juutas Käkriäinen, his long-suffering wife and a swarm of children. Over one long summer day Juutas dodges work, brews illicit spirits and spars with his landowner, the learned and fussy Benjam Lumperoinen. Lehtonen's comic and bitter novel became a classic portrait of the Finnish rural poor.

  37 chapters · About 465 minutes of published text

• Pygmalion

  By Bernard Shaw

  Professor Henry Higgins bets that he can pass a Covent Garden flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, off as a duchess by teaching her to speak properly. He succeeds, and then has to face the fact that he has made a woman with a will of her own.

  5 chapters · About 139 minutes of published text

• Quatro Novelas

  By Ana de Castro Osório

  Four novellas by Ana de Castro Osório, a Portuguese writer and early campaigner for women's rights: A Vinha, A Feiticeira, Diário duma Criança and Sacrificada. They are stories of love, convent and country life, often seen from the side of the women who are bound by them.

  4 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text

• Quincas Borba

  By Machado de Assis

  Quincas Borba is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. It was first published in 1891. It is also known in English as Philosopher or Dog? The novel was principally written as a serial in the journal A Estação from 1886 to 1891. It was definitively published as a book in 1892 with some small, but significant changes from the serialized version.

  201 chapters · About 329 minutes of published text

• Quo vadis

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Marcus Vinicius, a young patrician returned to Rome, falls in love with Lygia, a hostage princess who has been raised among the Christians, and sets out to win her. Sienkiewicz sets their pursuit against the court of Nero, the burning of Rome and the persecution that follows.

  75 chapters · About 745 minutes of published text

• Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz (translated by Jeremiah Curtin)

  Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero (Quo vadis: Powieść z czasów Nerona) is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. The novel tells the story of a romantic love that develops between Lygia (Ligia in Polish), a Christian woman and barbarian hostage, and Marcus Vinicius, a young Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of Roman emperor Nero, from c. AD 64 to AD 68, when he committed suicide.

  73 chapters · About 905 minutes of published text