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• Qvo vadis: Kertomus Neron ajoilta

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz (translated by Maila Talvio)

  In Nero's Rome the young officer Marcus Vinicius falls for Lygia, a hostage princess raised in a Christian household, and his uncle Petronius, the arbiter of elegance, schemes to win her for him. Their story runs through the burning of Rome and the persecution of the Christians that followed. Sienkiewicz's novel in Maila Talvio's Finnish translation.

  74 chapters · About 690 minutes of published text

• Rab Ráby: Regény

  By Mór Jókai

  Mátyás Ráby, an official in the reign of Joseph II, exposes the corruption of a town magistracy near Pest-Buda and spends years paying for it as the officials he crossed close ranks against him. Jókai built the novel on the real Ráby's memoir, told with comedy and anger, each chapter headed by a mock-archaic summary.

  54 chapters · About 554 minutes of published text

• Rakontoj

  By Jakub Arbes (translated by Josef Grňa)

  Five stories by the Czech writer Jakub Arbes in Josef Grňa's Esperanto translation, printed in the old x-spelling. Two sketches from Mozart's life, at the Bertramka villa in Prague and in Vienna in 1791, come first, followed by the uncanny tales of a white wedding dress and a first night spent beside the dead, and the long story Moderna Magdaleno.

  5 chapters · About 154 minutes of published text

• Rautatie

  By Juhani Aho

  Rautatie (Finnish for "railroad") is the first novel by the Finnish writer Juhani Aho, published in 1884. Its style has been called national miniature realism. The novel is about the quiet life of a couple living in the middle of the woods and their attempts at imagining what a railroad is based on what they have heard. Rautatie is one of the classics of Finnish literature, and has had more than twenty editions by the start of the 21st century. It has been called Aho's first "artistic full hit". In 2007, WSOY published a perfect copy of the 1892 colour edition illustrated by Eero Järnefelt. A TV film by the same name was made based on the novel in 1973.

  8 chapters · About 103 minutes of published text

• Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha

  By Lima Barreto

  Isaías, a bright young mixed-race man from a small town, goes to Rio de Janeiro to become a doctor and instead ends up as a clerk on a powerful newspaper. Lima Barreto's first novel is a bitter, funny portrait of the press, the city's elites and the walls built against a man like him.

  14 chapters · About 255 minutes of published text

• Red aces: Being three cases of Mr. Reeder

  By Edgar Wallace

  Three cases of Mr J. G. Reeder, Edgar Wallace's shabby, mild-mannered detective of the Public Prosecutor's office. His criminal mind is always one step ahead of the lawbreakers. Dry and ingenious.

  26 chapters · About 296 minutes of published text

• Reliquias de Casa Velha

  By Machado de Assis

  Machado de Assis's last collection, from 1906, gathering late stories along with two short comedies and some critical pages. Among the stories is Pai contra Mãe, about a slave catcher in Rio de Janeiro.

  12 chapters · About 204 minutes of published text

• Ressurreição

  By Machado de Assis

  Ressurreição (Resurrection) is Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' first novel. It was published in 1872. Although it can be considered a romantic work, its romanticism is contained, moderate, without the sentimental excesses, the twists in the plot and the happy endings of the romantic genre. Moreover, it is also presented as a psychological novel "that although it is not unheard of, it is rare in sentimental novels" where the most important thing is not intrigue or action, "but to study the character and his behavior".

  24 chapters · About 157 minutes of published text

• Richard III

  By William Shakespeare

  Richard, Duke of Gloucester, schemes his way to the English throne by slander, seduction and the murder of his own brothers and nephews. His reign unravels into guilt and rebellion and ends on Bosworth Field against Henry Tudor.

  5 chapters · About 135 minutes of published text

• Riders to the Sea

  By J. M. Synge

  On an Aran island an old woman, Maurya, has already lost her husband and five sons to the sea, and tries to stop her last son from sailing to the horse fair. This one-act tragedy is among the most performed short plays in English.

  1 chapter · About 18 minutes of published text

• Rimas

  By Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  Seventy-six short poems on love, loss and the mystery of poetry, put together after the author's death from his notebook. Bécquer's Rimas are among the most loved verses in the Spanish language, plain in form and full of feeling.

  75 chapters · About 32 minutes of published text

• Robur, o Conquistador

  By Jules Verne (translated by Christovam Ayres)

  A Portuguese translation of Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror. Two members of a Philadelphia balloon club who scoff at heavier-than-air flight are kidnapped by the mysterious engineer Robur and carried round the world aboard his flying machine, the Albatross.

  18 chapters · About 243 minutes of published text

• Röda rummet: Skildringar ur artist- och författarlivet

  By August Strindberg

  Arvid Falk, a young civil servant who wants to be a writer, leaves the office for the bohemian circle of painters and authors who meet in the Red Room of a Stockholm restaurant. Strindberg's first novel, a satire of the press, the church, the stock market and the art world of the 1870s, follows Falk's hopes and disappointments through thirty chapters.

  30 chapters · About 434 minutes of published text

• Rodzina Połanieckich

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Stanisław Połaniecki, a Warsaw businessman who came home from abroad as a young man, looks for a wife and a settled life, and marries the gentle Marynia, the daughter of an old family. Sienkiewicz's novel of 1894 follows the household through quarrels, money and the old and new ways of the city.

  70 chapters · About 946 minutes of published text

• Romeo and Juliet

  By William Shakespeare

  The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, often shortened to Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed. The title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

  6 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text

• Room 13

  By Edgar Wallace

  Room 13 is a 1924 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was the first in a series of books featuring the character of J. G. Reeder, a mild-mannered civil servant who is a brilliant detective.

  33 chapters · About 257 minutes of published text

• Rosmersholm

  By Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)

  Rebecka West, who lives in the old house of Rosmersholm, and the widowed pastor John Rosmer try to build a new life on freedom and a shared ideal. The ghost of Rosmer's dead wife and the town's politics close in on them.

  4 chapters · About 119 minutes of published text

• Ryöstölapsi: Kertomus David Balfourin seikkailuista

  By Robert Louis Stevenson (translated by O. E. Lampén)

  Cheated of his inheritance by his miserly uncle and sold onto a ship bound for the Carolinas, young David Balfour escapes across the Scottish Highlands with the outlawed Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart. Stevenson's adventure in O. E. Lampén's Finnish translation.

  30 chapters · About 251 minutes of published text

• S/S "Styggen"

  By Burchard Jessen

  Captain Jonas Ratje, heartily sick of the sea, and his old engineer Dick Darling, half Scot and half Norwegian, buy a battered tugboat named Styggen and try to make a living with her in Bergen harbour. Eight comic episodes follow their schemes and scrapes with shipowners, merchants, rivals and the law.

  8 chapters · About 133 minutes of published text

• Sa Ano Nabubuhay Ang Tao

  By Leo Tolstoy (translated by Sofronio G. Calderón)

  A poor shoemaker sets out to buy a sheepskin for the winter and comes home instead with a naked stranger he found sitting behind a roadside chapel. The silent young man stays on as his apprentice and in six years smiles only three times, each time for a reason he will explain at last. Tolstoy's parable, in the Tagalog translation of Sofronio G. Calderón.

  12 chapters · About 30 minutes of published text

• Sab (novela original)

  By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

  On a Cuban sugar plantation, Sab, an enslaved man of great gifts who runs his master's estate, silently loves Carlota, the master's daughter, who is engaged to the son of a calculating English merchant. Published in 1841, it is among the first antislavery novels.

  16 chapters · About 233 minutes of published text

• Sang Nova: Novel, la muntanyenca (Volumes 1 and 2)

  By Marià Vayreda

  After years of study and travel, young Ramon Montbrió returns to the mountains to settle on his family estate, encouraged by his uncle, the rector of Vall de Pedres. His growing attachment to the proud house of Serra-Bruna and its daughter Montserrat draws him into old village rivalries just as the revolution of 1868 unsettles the countryside. Both volumes of the novel are in this one file.

  76 chapters · About 414 minutes of published text

• Saudades: história de menina e moça

  By Bernardim Ribeiro

  A young woman withdrawn to a lonely place in the hills mourns her sorrows, and an older lady tells her stories of unhappy love among knights and shepherds. Bernardim Ribeiro's sixteenth-century pastoral romance is one of the earliest works of Portuguese prose fiction.

  31 chapters · About 104 minutes of published text

• Seitsemän veljestä: kertomus

  By Aleksis Kivi

  Seitsemän veljestä is the first and only novel by Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland. It is widely regarded as the first significant novel written in Finnish and by a Finnish-speaking author, and is considered a real pioneer of Finnish realistic folklore. Some people still regard it as the greatest Finnish novel ever written, and in time it has even gained the status of a "national novel of Finland". The deep significance of the work for Finnish culture has even been quoted internationally, and in a BBC article by Lizzie Enfield, for example, which describes Kivi's Seitsemän veljestä as "the book that shaped a Nordic identity."

  14 chapters · About 352 minutes of published text