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• Suomen kansan satuja ja tarinoita

  By Anonymous

  Eero Salmelainen's collection, published in four parts between 1852 and 1866, was the first large gathering of Finnish folk tales. Smith Ilmarinen goes wooing, youngest sons win princesses, the fox outwits the bear and the wolf, and the devil is cheated again and again, with the editor's prefaces and, at the end, his notes on the tales.

  113 chapters · About 652 minutes of published text

• Svenska folk-sagor och äfventyr. Första delen (häfte 1 och häfte 2)

  By Anonymous

  The first part of the first scholarly collection of Swedish folk tales, taken down from the mouths of country storytellers in the 1840s by Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius and George Stephens. Giants, trolls, enchanted princesses and clever boys fill twenty-two tales, many in several versions, with the editors' notes on where each was told.

  23 chapters · About 780 minutes of published text

• Swann's Way

  By Marcel Proust (translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff)

  A grown man dips a cake in tea and recovers his boyhood in Combray, then the world of Charles Swann and his love for Odette. The first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a long, rich meditation on time and memory.

  4 chapters · About 849 minutes of published text

• Syzyfowe prace

  By Stefan Żeromski

  Marcin Borowicz, the son of a village farmer, is sent to a gymnasium in the Russian-ruled town of Klerykowo, where teachers work to strip Polish pupils of their language and history. Żeromski's school novel follows the boy and his friends as they find in books and in each other a way to resist.

  18 chapters · About 275 minutes of published text

• Szindbád ifjusága: próza

  By Gyula Krúdy

  Szindbád, a restless lover who has passed through many towns and many women, sets out again on journeys that are mostly journeys into memory: old houses, old loves, small provincial towns. These are the first of Krúdy's Szindbád stories, dreamy and melancholy, followed by stories of poor girls' lives.

  18 chapters · About 158 minutes of published text

• Tales of Terror and Mystery

  By Arthur Conan Doyle

  Tales of Terror and Mystery is a short story collection by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 12 July 1922. The collection comprises 12 stories: six "tales of terror" and six "tales of mystery". In autumn 1925, it was published in the United States by George H. Doran Company as The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery.

  12 chapters · About 326 minutes of published text

• Tapani Löfvingin seikkailut

  By Kyösti Wilkuna

  Born in Narva on Christmas Eve 1689, Tapani Löfving tells his own life: a failed start as a merchant's apprentice, then soldiering, capture, escapes and partisan raids against the Russian occupiers of Finland during the Great Northern War. Wilkuna based this brisk first-person adventure on a real partisan of the Great Wrath.

  23 chapters · About 185 minutes of published text

• Tarzan of the Apes

  By Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series. The story was first printed in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a novel in June 1914. The story follows the title character Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels.

  28 chapters · About 372 minutes of published text

• Teckningar och drömmar

  By Fredrika Charlotta Tengström Runeberg

  Forty short tales and prose dreams by Fredrika Runeberg, many of them legends and allegories set in faraway places, from Persia and the Pacific to the old Finnish underworld of Manala. Most turn on the lives of women: wives, daughters, dancers and dreamers, and what love and duty ask of them.

  40 chapters · About 255 minutes of published text

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

  By Thomas Hardy

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman is the twelfth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892. Although now considered a major novel of the 19th century, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the morals of late Victorian England.

  59 chapters · About 645 minutes of published text

• The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

  By T. Smollett

  The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom is a novel by Tobias Smollett first published in 1753. It was Smollett's third novel and met with less success than his two previous more picaresque tales. The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across England and the rest of Europe with little concern for the law or the welfare of others. He is the son of an equally disreputable mother, and Smollett himself comments that "Fathom justifies the proverb, 'What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh'." Sir Walter Scott commented that the novel paints a "complete picture of human depravity."

  66 chapters · About 679 minutes of published text

• The Adventures of Roderick Random

  By T. Smollett

  Tobias Smollett's 1748 picaresque follows a Scottish youth from disinherited poverty through the squalid ships of the Royal Navy and the London streets. A reader finds rough humour, fights and a fast-moving tour of Georgian low life.

  69 chapters · About 820 minutes of published text

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  By Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October, 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine, from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson, and all are relayed in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.

  12 chapters · About 454 minutes of published text

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  By Mark Twain

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is a novel by Mark Twain (1835–1910) published on June 9, 1876, about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1830s–1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime.

  35 chapters · About 303 minutes of published text

• The Aeneid

  By Virgil (translated by John Dryden)

  Aeneas flees burning Troy, loses Dido's love at Carthage, descends to the underworld, and fights his way to Italy to found the line that will build Rome. Dryden's 1697 version in heroic couplets was the standard English Aeneid for two centuries.

  12 chapters · About 467 minutes of published text

• The Aesop for Children: With pictures by Milo Winter

  By Aesop

  A set of Aesop's fables told simply for children, from the tortoise and the hare to the fox and the grapes, each ending with a moral. Milo Winter's illustrations accompany this popular edition.

  147 chapters · About 111 minutes of published text

• The Age of Innocence

  By Edith Wharton

  The Age of Innocence is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 25 October 1920. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded Age" New York City.

  34 chapters · About 441 minutes of published text

• The Amazing Marriage

  By George Meredith

  Carinthia Kirby, a girl raised abroad, marries the extravagant Lord Fleetwood, and the marriage is a mystery to them both. George Meredith's last complete novel, 1895.

  47 chapters · About 675 minutes of published text

• The Arabian Nights Entertainments

  By Andrew Lang

  Andrew Lang's 1898 selection from the Arabian Nights for young readers: Aladdin, Sindbad, the Little Hunchback, the Enchanted Horse and other tales told by Scheherazade. Genies, caves and sultans fill the pages. The most famous collection of Eastern stories in English.

  25 chapters · About 474 minutes of published text

• The Ballad of the White Horse

  By G. K. Chesterton

  Chesterton's ballad tells how King Alfred, beaten and hiding in the marshes, gathers the Saxon chiefs for a last stand against the Danes at Ethandune. In galloping rhyme it makes the war a clash of Christian and pagan worlds, and it ends with the white horse on the hill being scoured.

  9 chapters · About 73 minutes of published text

• The Blue Castle

  By L. M. Montgomery

  The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). The story is set during the early 1900s in the fictional town of Deerwood, located in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. Deerwood is based on Bala, Ontario, which Montgomery visited in 1922. Maps of the two towns show similarities.

  45 chapters · About 296 minutes of published text

• The Blue Fairy Book

  By Andrew Lang

  Andrew Lang's 1889 anthology of well-known fairy tales includes Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and Aladdin. Drawing on French, German and Scandinavian sources, the stories are presented in plain, clear language.

  42 chapters · About 600 minutes of published text

• The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

  By H. De Vere Stacpoole

  The Blue Lagoon is a coming-of-age romance novel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1908. The Blue Lagoon explores themes of love, childhood innocence, and conflict between civilisation and nature.

  49 chapters · About 278 minutes of published text

• The blue scarab

  By R. Austin Freeman

  R. Austin Freeman's 1932 case for Dr Thorndyke, the medico-legal expert who reads a crime from the smallest physical clues. A missing man, a dead man's hat and a blue scarab set the puzzle, and the police are soon at a loss. A classic of the scientific detective story, told in seven parts.

  7 chapters · About 291 minutes of published text