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Senhora
By José de Alencar
Senhora is a novel written by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar. It was first published in 1875, two years before the author's death. It was the third book by the author about the position of women in Brazil's 19th century Rio de Janeiro society (the other two being Diva and Lucíola), published under the pseudonym G.M.
41 chapters · About 334 minutes of published text
Sense and Sensibility
By Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the debut novel by English author Jane Austen, appearing in 1811. It was published anonymously: By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. The novel is probably set between 1792 and 1797 and follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of a distant relative in Devon. There the two eldest girls experience love and heartbreak that tries the contrasting characters of both.
50 chapters · About 516 minutes of published text
Shakespeare's Sonnets
By William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III.
154 chapters · About 76 minutes of published text
She Stoops to Conquer
By Oliver Goldsmith
Two young gentlemen travelling to a country house are tricked by a practical joker into thinking it is an inn, and treat their host as an innkeeper. Kate Hardcastle, who finds the shy suitor tongue-tied before ladies, passes herself off as a barmaid to win him.
5 chapters · About 96 minutes of published text
Si Djamin dan Si Djohan
By Merari Siregar
Two poor brothers in Batavia are made to hand over every cent they earn to a hard-hearted woman who beats them for what they do not bring. Merari Siregar's short novel for young readers, in the Dutch-era spelling of 1918, follows their misery and the kindness of a Chinese couple, Kong Soei and his wife, who see Johan through school.
8 chapters · About 123 minutes of published text
Si Tandang Basio Macunat
By M. Lucio y Bustamante
An old farmer of Tanay, Tandang Basio, tells a visitor why he will not hear that his children should go to study in Manila, and reads out the story his dead father Antonio wrote down. It follows a decent family ruined by the wish to raise a son above his station, in letters between the student Próspero and his parents. A Tagalog satire and moral tale of the 1880s by the friar Miguel Lucio y Bustamante.
12 chapters · About 96 minutes of published text
Silas Marner
By George Eliot
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by English author George Eliot; it was published on 2 April 1861. A seemingly simple story of a linen weaver, Silas Marner is notable for its strong realist bent, as well as its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
21 chapters · About 308 minutes of published text
Singoalla
By Viktor Rydberg
Singoalla (1857) is a historical novel written by Swedish author Viktor Rydberg and is one of the author's most important works. The book takes place during the Middle Ages in the province of Småland and revolves around the love between the knight's son Erland Månesköld and the mysterious Romani girl Singoalla. The novel was first published in the Gothenburg calendar Aurora, then with the subtitle Romantisk sagodikt (Romantic Fairy Tale Poem). The first edition of the book was published in 1865, then with a revised happy ending instead of the original unhappy one. The first English translation was published in 1904.
21 chapters · About 169 minutes of published text
Sirkus ja pyhimys: Romaani vanhaan tyyliin
By Joel Lehtonen
Angelika, the generous daughter of the Pähkinämäki manor, pulls a small boy named Sam from a burning house and takes him into her life. Told in the old style, with playful chapter summaries and asides to the reader, Lehtonen's novel follows Sam from a cherished childhood toward the circus that calls him, and Angelika through the kinds of love its five parts are named for.
5 chapters · About 196 minutes of published text
Skärkarlsliv
By August Strindberg
Strindberg's tales of the islanders of the Stockholm archipelago, opening with a short novel about a romantic young organist sent to the remote island of Rånö. The stories that follow bring in a summer curate, the parson's elk, a murderer, a vow made in a storm and the loves of the island girls.
19 chapters · About 186 minutes of published text
Sklepy cynamonowe
By Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz's first book, a cycle of linked stories set in a small Galician town much like his native Drohobycz and seen through the eyes of a boy. His father, a cloth merchant drifting into mania, breeds exotic birds in the attic and lectures the seamstresses on the life of mannequins, while the town turns into a place of dreamlike streets, overgrown gardens and shops of cinnamon-coloured wonders.
15 chapters · About 106 minutes of published text
Skovstrup-Folk: To Fortællinger
By Ingvor Bondesen
Two longer stories about people from Skovstrup, a remote Danish village far from town, railway and church. The first, En Sommernatsdrøm, finds passions as strong as anywhere else under the quiet surface of farm life; the second, Fra Kvist til Kjælder, follows villagers who leave for the city and what becomes of them there.
18 chapters · About 184 minutes of published text
Soból i panna
By Michał Weyssenhoff
Weyssenhoff's novel of 1911 tells of the hunts, feasts and quiet seasons of the Lithuanian gentry on their estates around Wilno, in chapters such as the Evening Party, the Great Drive and Golden Autumn. It opens before dawn as Michał prepares to go out hunting with his neighbour Stanisław Pucewicz.
15 chapters · About 291 minutes of published text
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By William Blake
Blake's two sets of short lyrics look at the same world twice, first through a child's trusting eye with the lamb and the piper, then through experience, with the tyger, the sick rose and the chimney-sweeper's cry. Read side by side, the paired poems argue about innocence, cruelty and the God who made both.
49 chapters · About 23 minutes of published text
Sonnets from the Portuguese
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Forty-four sonnets in which Elizabeth Barrett Browning traces her love for Robert Browning, from her first doubt that she can be loved to the full surrender of the last poems. The 'Portuguese' of the title was a private joke, and the sequence became the best known love poetry of the Victorian age.
44 chapters · About 22 minutes of published text
Sotileza
By José María de Pereda
Sotileza, a foundling raised in the old fishing quarter of Santander, grows up between a rich merchant's son, a young sailor and a boy of the quay. Pereda's masterpiece is a rich portrait of the sea, its people and their speech.
29 chapters · About 496 minutes of published text
Spoon River Anthology
By Edgar Lee Masters
More than two hundred dead townspeople of Spoon River, Illinois, speak from the hillside cemetery and tell what their neighbours never knew, from the banker and the preacher to the drunk and the village atheist. Together their epitaphs make a harsh portrait of a small American town, closed by The Spooniad and an epilogue.
246 chapters · About 164 minutes of published text
Sprookjes: Tweede verzameling
By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (translated by M. van Eeden-Van Vloten)
A second collection of the Grimms' household tales in Dutch, among them Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, the Golden Goose, King Thrushbeard and the long tale of the two brothers. Thirty-nine stories of witches, clever tailors, talking animals and youngest sons.
39 chapters · About 255 minutes of published text
Storie da ridere.... e da piangere
By Ercole Luigi Morselli
Eight tales that are comic and sad at once, opening in a ramshackle tavern on the Buenos Aires waterfront full of men who have lost pieces of themselves. Morselli's characters include hopeful inventors, lodgers, performers and dreamers, drawn with a playwright's ear for dialogue.
8 chapters · About 163 minutes of published text
Strandingshistorier: Skildringer fra jydske Vestkyst og Skagen
By L. Mylius Erichsen
Ten stories and sketches of the fishermen and lifeboat crews of Jutland's west coast and Skagen, where the North Sea wrecks ships every winter. Watches on the beach, rescues in the surf, survivors brought back to life and Christmas guests washed in from the sea, told by a writer who knew the coast. The book is dedicated to the Skagen painters Michael and Anna Ancher.
10 chapters · About 196 minutes of published text
Straszny dziadunio
By Maria Rodziewiczówna
The rich and reclusive old Polikarp Białopiotrowicz spoils one grandson in St Petersburg and leaves the other, Hieronim, to fend for himself, and his ruthless experiments almost cost Hieronim his life. Rodziewiczówna's 1898 novel follows the student who rescues a small girl from a flood and, in the end, wins the love of the terrible grandfather.
8 chapters · About 149 minutes of published text
Stuk
By Herman Bang
In the Copenhagen of the 1880s, money seems to rain from the sky, and the energetic Herluf Berg throws himself into building a grand new theatre and entertainment house. The first part follows the boom, the companies, the parties and the friendships it creates; the second follows what happens when the gilded plaster, the stucco of the title, begins to crack. A portrait of a city living beyond its means.
10 chapters · About 324 minutes of published text
Su único hijo
By Leopoldo Alas «Clarín»
Bonifacio Reyes, a mild husband in a provincial town, learns to love the child he believes to be his own, though the boy's father is not him. Clarín's novel is a warm and ironic study of paternity, small-town opera and a man who finds his only purpose in his son.
16 chapters · About 388 minutes of published text
Sult
By Knut Hamsun
In Kristiania in the 1880s a young writer who never gives his name wanders the streets half starved, trying to sell articles to the newspapers and keep his pride. Told in his own voice across four episodes of hunger, the book follows the strange turns his mind takes as want sharpens and distorts it. Hamsun's first novel and a landmark of modern fiction.
4 chapters · About 266 minutes of published text