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• Tristán o el pesimismo

  By Armando Palacio Valdés

  Tristán, a gifted young man who expects the worst of everyone, marries the woman he loves and sets about doubting his own happiness. Palacio Valdés sets his suspicious hero against friends who meet life with more trust, in a novel of manners about how temperament shapes fate.

  22 chapters · About 410 minutes of published text

• Tristana

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Tristana, a young orphan living under the possessive love of the old Don Lope, longs for freedom and a career, and gives her heart to a young painter. Galdós traces the cost of their choices in a short novel far ahead of its time on the position of women.

  29 chapters · About 228 minutes of published text

• Triste Fim de Polycarpo Quaresma

  By Lima Barreto

  Major Policarpo Quaresma, a quiet civil servant in Rio de Janeiro, loves Brazil so sincerely that he petitions for Tupi to become the national language. Lima Barreto follows his patriotic projects, in culture, farming and politics, through the troubled early years of the Republic.

  15 chapters · About 285 minutes of published text

• Tulitikkuja lainaamassa

  By Maiju Lassila

  One morning Antti Ihalainen is sent across to his neighbour Jussi Vatanen to borrow some matches. Over coffee and talk the errand turns into a matchmaking scheme, and the two men set off on a slow, argumentative and increasingly absurd journey that wanders a long way from the matches. A much-loved Finnish comic novel.

  18 chapters · About 176 minutes of published text

• Tuomas Vitikka: Romaani

  By Eino Leino

  Tuomas Vitikka, son of a senate official from Helsinki's comfortable patriotic gentry, grows up among summer manors, speeches and the struggles of the years of Russian oppression. Eino Leino follows him and the people around him with satire for the slogans of the day and sympathy for a young man trying to find what he really believes.

  15 chapters · About 148 minutes of published text

• Twelfth Night

  By William Shakespeare

  Viola, shipwrecked in Illyria, disguises herself as a page and enters the service of Duke Orsino, whom she loves, while the Countess Olivia falls in love with her instead. Meanwhile Sir Toby and his friends play a cruel trick on the steward Malvolio.

  5 chapters · About 92 minutes of published text

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  By Jules Verne

  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.

  46 chapters · About 452 minutes of published text

• Twenty years after

  By Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

  Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask).

  90 chapters · About 1048 minutes of published text

• Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

  By Anonymous

  An anthology of twenty-five ghost stories gathered by W. Bob Holland in the 1920s, mixing famous names with half-forgotten ones. A reader finds short haunted-house and apparition tales for the evening.

  25 chapters · About 241 minutes of published text

• Two on a Tower

  By Thomas Hardy

  Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy. It is regarded as one of his minor works. It is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in late Victorian Dorset.

  41 chapters · About 408 minutes of published text

• Ubirajara: Lenda Tupi

  By José Martiniano de Alencar

  Before the Europeans came, the young hunter Jaguarê sets out to prove himself a warrior and earn a new name. José de Alencar's short novel, told as a Tupi legend, follows him through combat, love and the rivalry between two nations.

  9 chapters · About 147 minutes of published text

• Uit het leven van Dik Trom

  By Cornelis Johannes Kieviet

  Dik Trom, a stout and good-hearted village boy, can hardly let a day pass without a prank on the schoolmaster, the neighbours or the local policeman. The book follows his scrapes and good deeds from his birth through his schooldays, and became one of the best-loved Dutch children's books.

  18 chapters · About 163 minutes of published text

• Ulana

  By Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

  In a village on a lake in Volhynian Polesie, with its manor on the hill, its inn and its old church, the peasant girl Ulana lives out her story. Kraszewski's early tale of 1843 is as much a portrait of the village and its people as of its heroine.

  16 chapters · About 116 minutes of published text

• Uma Família Inglesa

  By Júlio Dinis

  Scenes of life in Porto among the English merchants who traded in port wine, and the Portuguese who work for them or live beside them. Júlio Dinis opens with a playful address to the reader and draws, with gentle humour, the cooler habits of an English household against the warmth of the town around it.

  39 chapters · About 516 minutes of published text

• Un viaje de novios

  By Emilia Pardo Bazán

  A newly married young couple set off on their honeymoon across Spain and France and find that husband and wife hardly know each other. Pardo Bazán's early novel follows the strains and tenderness of the journey.

  15 chapters · About 299 minutes of published text

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

  By Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War".

  45 chapters · About 784 minutes of published text

• Undine

  By Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué

  A knight falls in love with a foundling girl who is secretly a water-spirit, and the water makes its claims. Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's 1811 fairy romance, here in Charlotte Yonge's English, a source for later tales of the sea-maiden.

  10 chapters · About 137 minutes of published text

• Ungdomsdrömmar: historisk berättelse

  By Zacharias Topelius

  Finland in the first years of the seventeenth century, under the young Gustavus Adolphus: a storm in the archipelago, a comet and an astrologer's warnings, a diet in Helsinki and a conspiracy. Zacharias Topelius tells of young Kerstin Fleming and the dreams of youth among the noble families of a troubled age.

  14 chapters · About 140 minutes of published text

• Unterm Birnbaum

  By Theodor Fontane

  In a village in the Oderbruch in the 1830s, the innkeeper Hradscheck is deep in debt and his wife longs for a better life. When a travelling agent who came to collect money vanishes one winter night, the village begins to talk. A short crime novel by Fontane, more interested in conscience and gossip than in detection.

  20 chapters · About 146 minutes of published text

• Uroda życia

  By Stefan Żeromski

  Piotr Rozłucki, a cadet held in the strict drill of a military school, longs for the world beyond its windows. Żeromski's novel of 1912, in three parts, follows him out of the school into the larger life that waits for a young man of the intelligentsia.

  42 chapters · About 433 minutes of published text

• Urupês

  By Monteiro Lobato

  Fourteen stories of the São Paulo countryside by Monteiro Lobato, among them Os Faroleiros, O Engraçado Arrependido, A Colcha de Retalhos, Velha Praga and the title piece, where the lazy backwoodsman Jeca Tatu is introduced. The 1918 book made Lobato famous with its dry humour and its unsentimental view of country poverty.

  14 chapters · About 186 minutes of published text

• Vanity Fair

  By William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vanity Fair is a satirical novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial (the last containing parts 19 and 20) from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, which reflects both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.

  67 chapters · About 1308 minutes of published text

• Vecchie storie d'amore

  By Adolfo Albertazzi

  Twelve love stories set in the castles, convents and city streets of medieval and Renaissance Italy, retold in the manner of the old novellieri. Squires, knights, friars and ladies chase passion and pay for it, and a closing section sets out the chronicles and tales the author drew on.

  13 chapters · About 122 minutes of published text

• Ved Vejen

  By Herman Bang

  Ved Vejen (meaning By the Wayside or At the Roadside) is a short novel written by the Danish author Herman Bang in 1886. It was originally published in Copenhagen by Det Schubotheske Forlag as part of a collection of four stories entitled Stille Eksistenser (Quiet Existences), centering on women who are subdued or living in isolation. It was first published independently in 1898. An impressionist novel, it relates the story of Katinka, a sensitive but ambitious young woman married to a boisterous and somewhat vulgar station master, Bai.

  7 chapters · About 172 minutes of published text