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• The Willows

  By Algernon Blackwood

  "The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction.

  5 chapters · About 85 minutes of published text

• The Wind Among the Reeds

  By W. B. Yeats

  Yeats's 1899 book of love poems is full of Irish lore, of the sidhe, fishermen and ancient heroes, and its speakers Aedh, Michael Robartes and Hanrahan stand in for the moods of one poet. It includes The Song of Wandering Aengus and Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, without the author's notes.

  37 chapters · About 17 minutes of published text

• The Wind in the Willows

  By Kenneth Grahame

  The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble. It also contains short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative. The novel was based on bedtime stories that Grahame told his son Alastair.

  12 chapters · About 253 minutes of published text

• The Wind in the Willows

  By Kenneth Grahame

  The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble. It also contains short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative. The novel was based on bedtime stories that Grahame told his son Alastair.

  12 chapters · About 254 minutes of published text

• The Winter's Tale

  By William Shakespeare

  King Leontes of Sicilia, seized by a sudden jealousy, accuses his wife Hermione and casts out their newborn daughter. Sixteen years later, in Bohemia, the lost child has grown up among shepherds, and the play moves toward a reunion that no one expects.

  5 chapters · About 113 minutes of published text

• The wisdom of Father Brown

  By G. K. Chesterton

  G. K. Chesterton's second Father Brown collection, from 1914, sends the unassuming priest to a dozen more puzzles. A reader finds humour, paradox and moral surprise.

  12 chapters · About 311 minutes of published text

• The Woman in White

  By Wilkie Collins

  The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1860 and set from 1849 to 1850. It started its publication on 26 November 1859 and its publication was completed on 25 August 1860. It is a mystery novel and falls under the genre of "sensation novels".

  52 chapters · About 1062 minutes of published text

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  By L. Frank Baum

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by the American author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

  24 chapters · About 170 minutes of published text

• Thelma

  By Marie Corelli

  Thelma is a romantic novel by the British writer Marie Corelli, first published in 1887. It portrays the relationship between Thelma, a Norwegian woman, and the Englishman Sir Phillip Errington. A popular success, it ran to more than fifty six editions.

  34 chapters · About 868 minutes of published text

• Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)

  By Jerome K. Jerome

  Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K. Jerome describing a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction from the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers: the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty a century after publication

  19 chapters · About 289 minutes of published text

• Through the Looking-Glass

  By Lewis Carroll

  Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. It is the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which many of the characters were anthropomorphic playing cards. In this second novel the theme is chess. As in the earlier book, the central figure, Alice, enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a large looking-glass (a mirror) into a world that she can see beyond it.

  12 chapters · About 127 minutes of published text

• Thuvia, maid of Mars

  By Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. The principal characters are Carthoris (the son of John Carter of Mars) and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels.

  14 chapters · About 204 minutes of published text

• Til

  By José de Alencar

  A rural novel of the province of São Paulo in the mid-nineteenth century, around a wealthy planter's household, his daughter Linda and the orphan girl Berta, nicknamed Til, who lives among them. José de Alencar mixes the customs of the fazenda, a mystery of crime and a love story, in sixty-two short chapters.

  62 chapters · About 303 minutes of published text

• Timár Virgil fia

  By Mihály Babits

  Virgil Timár, a Cistercian priest who teaches at a provincial school, comes to love a gifted pupil as the son he could never have, until the boy's worldly father arrives to claim him. The short novel in three parts is followed by five shorter stories.

  8 chapters · About 167 minutes of published text

• Tine

  By Herman Bang

  In the summer of 1864, as Danish troops dig in at Dybbøl against the Prussian advance, young Tine on the island of Als is left to keep house for the forester Berg after his wife and children flee to safety. Their growing closeness unfolds against the sound of the guns, the arrival of the wounded and the slow collapse of the Danish line. Bang tells it in short, vivid scenes that make one woman's private story and a nation's defeat run together.

  10 chapters · About 194 minutes of published text

• Tlingit Myths and Texts

  By Tlingit storytellers of Sitka and Wrangell, recorded by John R. Swanton

  Eighteen tales and clan histories told in Tlingit at Sitka and Wrangell, Alaska, and written down in January to April 1904 by the American anthropologist John R. Swanton, who printed them with an English translation in the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 39 (1909). The tellers include the Sitka elder Dekinak'u, the Kiksadi chief Katlian, the interpreter Don Cameron and the Wrangell chief Katishan. A reader will find the origin of copper, the shaman who went into the fire, the tale of Moldy-end, and the clans' own accounts of their migrations, wars and crests.

  18 chapters · About 51 minutes of published text

• Tonio Kröger

  By Thomas Mann

  Tonio Kröger, son of a northern merchant and a southern mother, grows up loving the ordinary, fair-haired people who will never understand him. As a writer in Munich he talks through his divided loyalties with a painter friend, then travels north to the town of his childhood and on to Denmark. A short novella about art and the longing for an ordinary life.

  9 chapters · About 93 minutes of published text

• Tormento

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Amparo, a poor seamstress with a past, is courted by a rich man returned from the Americas while a priest who loves her holds her to a secret that she dreads. Galdós's novel is a close study of respectability, hypocrisy and the narrow options open to a woman without money.

  41 chapters · About 361 minutes of published text

• Tradiciones peruanas

  By Ricardo Palma

  Ricardo Palma's short, witty pieces of Peruvian history, legend and anecdote, most of them from colonial Lima. Each one mixes chronicle and gossip, told with irony and a storyteller's freedom.

  27 chapters · About 208 minutes of published text

• Trafalgar

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Gabriel Araceli, a boy of Cádiz, tells how he served aboard the Santísima Trinidad at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The first of Galdós's Episodios nacionales mixes a child's eye view with the fall of Spain's fleet.

  17 chapters · About 223 minutes of published text

• Treasure Island

  By Robert Louis Stevenson

  Treasure Island is an adventure and historical novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published as a book in 1883, but is set in the 18th century, and tells a story of "buccaneers and buried gold". It is considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.

  34 chapters · About 294 minutes of published text

• Trędowata

  By Helena Mniszkówna

  Stefcia Rudecka, a poor and gentle girl taken in at a country mansion, falls in love with Waldemar Michorowski, a rich and proud magnate. His family and his class treat her as unfit for him, a 'leper' of the social order, and the love ends in tragedy. Mniszkówna's 1909 novel was the best-selling romance of its day in Poland.

  74 chapters · About 730 minutes of published text

• Tres Homes Dins D'una Barca (Sense comptar-hi el gos)

  By Jerome K. Jerome (translated by Jacint Maria Mustieles)

  Three idle young Londoners convinced they are overworked, and a fox terrier named Montmorency, set off on a boating holiday up the Thames. Packing, cooking, weather, locks and riverside towns each become the occasion for a disaster or a digression. A Catalan translation of Jerome K. Jerome's comic classic.

  19 chapters · About 277 minutes of published text

• Tri Noveloj

  By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (translated by Andreo Fiŝer)

  Three of Pushkin's prose tales in Andreo Fiŝer's Esperanto translation. In The Queen of Spades a calculating young officer becomes obsessed with an old countess's secret of three winning cards; in The Snowstorm a blizzard upsets a secret elopement; and in The Shot a duel is left unfinished for years.

  3 chapters · About 68 minutes of published text