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  By Violet Jacob

  Violet Jacob's first book of poems moves from English garden lyrics and ballads to the sights of India, where she lived with her soldier husband. A closing run of Indian poems takes in a mango grove, an opium field, a Mohammedan graveyard and a distant temple.

  48 chapters · About 42 minutes of published text

• Vi Bookar, Krokar och Rothar: Ur en stadskrönika

  By Hjalmar Bergman

  In the north of a Swedish market town lies Blekängen, a stretch of common ground that the town's families, the Bookes, the Kroks and the Rothes, cannot leave alone. Hjalmar Bergman's comic chronicle follows their feuds, fortunes and children as the town grows, and ends in a battle for the field.

  17 chapters · About 345 minutes of published text

• Viagens na Minha Terra (Completo)

  By João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett

  The narrator makes a short journey from Lisbon to Santarém and fills it with digressions on politics, art and Portugal. Along the way he tells the love story of Joaninha, the girl with the nightingale eyes, and her cousin Carlos, caught up in the war between liberals and absolutists.

  49 chapters · About 308 minutes of published text

• Viaggi di Gulliver nelle lontane regioni

  By Jonathan Swift (translated by Gaetano Barbieri)

  The ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver is cast ashore among the tiny people of Lilliput, then carried off by the giants of Brobdingnag, then taken up to the flying island of Laputa. Gaetano Barbieri's Italian version holds the first three of Swift's four satirical voyages.

  27 chapters · About 360 minutes of published text

• Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidades

  By Anonymous

  Lázaro, a miller's son from the banks of the Tormes, tells his own life as a boy who serves one master after another, among them a cunning blind beggar, a miserly priest and a proud but starving squire, and learns to survive by his wits. This short anonymous book founded the picaresque novel.

  7 chapters · About 85 minutes of published text

• Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá

  By Lima Barreto

  A young clerk, Augusto Machado, tells of his friendship with an older civil servant, Gonzaga de Sá, a wise and ironical man who walks him through the old streets of Rio de Janeiro and its history. Lima Barreto's novel of 1919 is a gentle, melancholy portrait of the city and of the clerkly life.

  12 chapters · About 142 minutes of published text

• Világ ura

  By Jules Verne (translated by Andor Gábor)

  Strange events in the Blue Ridge, a car too fast for any road and a vessel seen at sea, in the air and under water bring a federal inspector on the trail of a mysterious inventor. Verne's late novel brings back Robur the Conqueror, now calling himself master of the world.

  18 chapters · About 173 minutes of published text

• Világok harca: Mars-lakók a földön

  By H. G. Wells (translated by Lajos Mikes)

  Cylinders fall from the sky on Surrey, and what climbs out of them lays waste to southern England while the narrator tries to survive. H. G. Wells's invasion novel in Lajos Mikes's Hungarian translation.

  27 chapters · About 208 minutes of published text

• Vilaniu: Novela de costums del nostre temps

  By Narcís Oller

  A large novel of the small town of Vilaniu, which on the eve of its great festival fills with strangers, giants and a dragon in the streets and gossip behind every balcony. Narcis Oller follows the town's families and ambitions across two parts and twenty-one chapters.

  21 chapters · About 370 minutes of published text

• Vingt mille Lieues Sous Les Mers

  By Jules Verne

  Sent to hunt a monster that has been sinking ships, Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land are taken prisoner aboard the Nautilus. Its master, Captain Nemo, carries them on a long voyage through the wonders of the world's oceans.

  47 chapters · About 621 minutes of published text

• Volpone

  By Ben Jonson

  The Venetian magnifico Volpone pretends to be dying so that the greedy Voltore, Corbaccio and Corvino will compete with gifts to be named his heir, while his servant Mosca arranges every deception. The two grow so clever that they trap themselves, and a court scene finally exposes them.

  6 chapters · About 126 minutes of published text

• Voyage au Centre de la Terre

  By Jules Verne

  Professor Lidenbrock deciphers a runic note left by an Icelandic alchemist and drags his nephew Axel to an extinct volcano, convinced it leads to the centre of the Earth. With the guide Hans they descend into caverns, seas and ages no one has seen.

  45 chapters · About 291 minutes of published text

• W pustyni i w puszczy

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Staś Tarkowski, fourteen, and Nel Rawlison, eight, are seized in Egypt by the followers of the Mahdi and escape into the African interior with a faithful boy servant. Sienkiewicz's story of their long journey among lions, elephants and tribes has been a favourite of Polish children for a century.

  47 chapters · About 441 minutes of published text

• War and Peace

  By Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude)

  Leo Tolstoy's epic of 1869 follows the Bolkonsky, Rostov and Bezukhov families through Russia's wars with Napoleon, from Austerlitz to the burning of Moscow. A reader finds battlefields and ballrooms, and searching questions about history and how to live.

  365 chapters · About 2442 minutes of published text

• What Men Live By, and Other Tales

  By Leo Tolstoy (translated by Aylmer Maude and Louise Maude)

  Tolstoy's late folk-style stories in Aylmer Maude's translation, including 'What Men Live By' and 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?'. A shoemaker, a peasant and a wandering angel meet simple dilemmas. Plain, moral and moving.

  4 chapters · About 81 minutes of published text

• White Fang

  By Jack London

  White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) about a wild wolf dog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. First serialized in Outing magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in October 1906. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild (1903), which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

  25 chapters · About 313 minutes of published text

• Wierna rzeka

  By Stefan Żeromski

  In the winter of 1863 the young insurgent Józef Odrowąż, wounded in the January Uprising, is hidden in a ruined manor on the Vistula by Salomea Brynicka, a lady who has her own secrets. Żeromski's short, lyrical novel tells of their love and of the uprising's defeat.

  17 chapters · About 177 minutes of published text

• Wspomnienia niebieskiego mundurka

  By Wiktor Gomulicki

  Witold Sprężycki and his schoolmates go through their lessons, pranks and quarrels at a boys' school in Pułtusk in the 1860s and 1870s, in the days of the Russian partition. Gomulicki's book for young readers, first published in 1905, recalls the schoolboy's world with humour and warmth.

  18 chapters · About 211 minutes of published text

• Wunderbare Reise des kleinen Nils Holgersson mit den Wildgänsen: Ein Kinderbuch

  By Selma Lagerlöf (translated by Pauline Klaiber)

  Nils, a lazy and unkind farm boy in southern Sweden, is shrunk to the size of a thumb by a household elf. He rides off on the back of a tame goose that joins a flock of wild geese flying north, and on the long journey across Sweden he comes to know its landscapes, legends and creatures. Selma Lagerlöf's famous children's book in Pauline Klaiber's German translation.

  55 chapters · About 896 minutes of published text

• Wuthering Heights

  By Emily Brontë

  Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

  34 chapters · About 504 minutes of published text

• Yksin

  By Juhani Aho

  A Finnish man in his thirties is turned down by the young woman he loves and leaves for Paris to forget her. Alone among the boulevards, cafés and night life of the city, he drifts between temptation and longing. The short novel, close to Aho's own life, caused a stir when it appeared in 1890.

  6 chapters · About 86 minutes of published text

• Zaragoza

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Gabriel Araceli goes to besieged Zaragoza in 1808 and lives through the French assault, the hunger and the stubborn resistance of the city's people. Galdós's best-known Episodio nacional puts a whole city's heroism into a single summer.

  32 chapters · About 287 minutes of published text

• Zonder Lentera

  By Kwee Tek Hoay

  A Chinese wijkmeester, the ward officer who collects taxes for the Dutch and is disliked by those he taxes, is drawn into a police case in Batavia. Kwee Tek Hoay's novel of 1930, in the Malay of the Peranakan Chinese, ends with the officer dismissed and the over-eager policeman demoted for blaming an innocent man.

  11 chapters · About 102 minutes of published text

• Η Γυφτοπούλα

  By Alexandros Papadiamantes

  On an April night in 1453, while Constantinople awaits its fall, two thieves drinking in a fishing village near Monemvasia set in motion an intrigue that soon draws in rulers, rogues and a mysterious gypsy girl. Papadiamantis's early historical novel is a crowded romance of pursuits, kidnappings and divided loyalties between Greeks, Venetians and Ottomans.

  40 chapters · About 391 minutes of published text