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Рудин
By Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
A brilliant talker arrives at a country house and wins everyone's admiration, especially a young woman who falls in love with him. When she asks him to act, Rudin turns out to be unable, in Turgenev's first novel.
13 chapters · About 163 minutes of published text
Слепой музыкант
By автор В. Г. Короленко (1853—1921)
Pyotr, born blind into a Ukrainian landowner's family, grows up cherished by his mother and his uncle and finds his way through music. Korolenko's novel follows his struggle toward a life of his own, and toward other people's griefs.
9 chapters · About 157 minutes of published text
Смерть Ивана Ильича
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
Ivan Ilyich, a respectable judge, falls ill after a trivial accident and has to face the thought that his whole life has been wrongly spent. Tolstoy's novella follows his dying with merciless honesty.
12 chapters · About 77 minutes of published text
Тарас Бульба
By Николай Васильевич Гоголь
The old Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba brings his two sons to the Sich, the warrior brotherhood of the steppe, and rides with them against the Polish gentry. One son's love for a Polish girl and the other's loyalty to the cause end in a famous reckoning between father and sons.
12 chapters · About 163 minutes of published text
Хаджи-Мурат
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
The Avar chieftain Hadji Murat quarrels with the imam Shamil and defects to the Russians, hoping to rescue his family, and finds the court of Nicholas I no kinder. Tolstoy's last novel, written in his seventies, is a clear-eyed picture of empire and of a proud man caught between two powers.
25 chapters · About 156 minutes of published text
Человек в футляре
By Антон Павлович Чехов (1860—1904)
Belikov, a teacher of Greek, goes about in galoshes and wraps himself in rules and fears, and terrorises a whole town with his timidity. When he is nearly engaged, his colleagues' mockery lets loose a comedy with a sad end.
1 chapter · About 36 minutes of published text
Шинель
By Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Akaky Akakievich, a poor copying clerk, saves for years to have a new overcoat made, and it transforms him for a single evening before thieves take it. Gogol's tale of the little man crushed by the great city ends with a ghost who goes looking for coats.
1 chapter · About 44 minutes of published text
آب حیات
By محمد حسین آزاد
Muhammad Husain Azad traces Urdu poetry through successive generations, pairing accounts of the language's development with portraits of its poets. His five-period history runs from early figures such as Wali to the Delhi and Lucknow poets of the nineteenth century.
40 chapters · About 782 minutes of published text
أخبار الحمقى والمغفلين
By ابن الجوزي
Ibn al-Jawzi, the Baghdad preacher and scholar who died in 1201, collected in twenty-four chapters the sayings and stories of fools, simpletons and the gullible, among them kings, judges, preachers and ordinary people. The anecdotes are short, dry and often funny, offered both as entertainment and as warning, and they are a rich store of medieval Arab humour.
24 chapters · About 153 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الأول
The first part of the Arabic Nights opens with King Shahriyar, who after a betrayal takes a new wife each evening and has her put to death at dawn, until the vizier's daughter Shahrazad begins a story she leaves unfinished. It carries the tales of the merchant and the jinni, the fisherman and the jinni, King Yunan and the sage Ruyan, and the Porter and the three ladies of Baghdad. The text is the Arabic of the medieval storytellers, as Wikisource's volunteers typed it.
6 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الثالث
The third and longest part of the Arabic Nights runs from about the forty-second night into the second hundred, one short chapter to a night. It holds the tale of the two viziers and Anis al-Jalis, the merchant Ayyub with his son Ghanim and daughter Fitna, and the long romance of King Umar al-Nu'man and his sons Sharkan and Daw' al-Makan.
88 chapters · About 289 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الثاني
The second part of the Arabic Nights takes up Shahrazad's storytelling from about the twentieth night, with the tale of the vizier Nur al-Din and his brother Shams al-Din and the story of the barber of Baghdad, each night's chapter ending as the dawn silences her. Wikisource's volunteers typed the text in the traditional Arabic recension, with the nights marked in the running prose.
23 chapters · About 102 minutes of published text
ألف ليلة وليلة: الجزء الرابع
The last part of the Arabic Nights as Wikisource has it opens with the tale of Ma'ruf the cobbler of Cairo and runs through the closing nights, near the thousandth and the thousand-and-first, where Shahrazad's long telling reaches its end. The nights are short chapters, each ending where the dawn interrupts her.
18 chapters · About 52 minutes of published text
اتالیق بی بی
By چودھری محمد علی ردولوی
Chaudhri Muhammad Ali Radaulvi's Ataliq Bibi (about 1923) is a set of fourteen humorous sketches adapted from Douglas Jerrold's Curtain Lectures, the nightly scoldings Mrs Caudle gives her husband, moved into an Urdu household. Each chapter is one evening's lecture, set off by a verse and a mishap such as a trip to the fair.
14 chapters · About 70 minutes of published text
اخلاق ہندی
By بہادر علی حسینی
Bahadur Ali Husaini's Indian Morals (1803) is a retelling in Urdu of a Persian book of fables, Mufarrih-ul-Qulub, made at Fort William College. Its animal tales and anecdotes teach right conduct, and its own title page calls it among the first Urdu books to be printed on a press.
5 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text
الأجنحة المتكسرة
By جبران خليل جبران
Kahlil Gibran's first novel in Arabic, written in New York and published in 1912, is a short, lyrical story of love and sorrow in Beirut. A young man falls in love with Salma Karamy, the daughter of an old friend of his father's, in a city where wealth and the Church decide whom a girl may marry. Its eleven brief chapters made Gibran's name among readers of Arabic.
11 chapters · About 70 minutes of published text
الأرواح المتمردة
By جبران خليل جبران
Four stories confront the authority of clergy, custom, and wealth in Lebanese society. Gibran gives the rebels a lyrical voice and links their personal struggles to a demand for freedom.
11 chapters · About 85 minutes of published text
النظرات
By مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti's Glances gathers the pieces he wrote for the Cairo press in the 1910s: moral essays and short sketches on poverty, charity, love and marriage, death and the follies of the age, set down in ornate, sentimental prose that a generation of Egyptians learned to read from. The pieces are short, and a good many of them are small stories.
86 chapters · About 343 minutes of published text
باغ و بہار
By میر امّن دہلوی
Mir Amman's Garden and Spring (1802), written at Fort William College in Calcutta, is the Urdu telling of the Four Dervishes. A merchant-prince in trouble is found by a stranger, who has four wandering dervishes tell how each came to lose his throne or fortune. It is the book that made plain, spoken Delhi Urdu a language of prose.
5 chapters · About 291 minutes of published text
بزم آخر
By منشی فیض الدین دہلوی
Munshi Faizuddin Dehlvi records daily life in the courts of Akbar Shah II and Bahadur Shah Zafar. His chapters describe palace rooms, processions, meals, festivals, speech, and customs in the last decades of Mughal Delhi.
30 chapters · About 80 minutes of published text
تاریخ یوسفی المعروف بہ عجائبات فرنگ
By یوسف خاں کمبل پوش
Yusuf Khan Kambalposh recounts his journey from India to Europe in one of Urdu's earliest travel books. The account follows his stops at the Cape, London, France, and Egypt before his return.
9 chapters · About 263 minutes of published text
حكاية السندباد البحري
In Baghdad in the days of Harun al-Rashid a poor porter named Sindbad rests outside a rich man's house and is called in by its owner, another Sindbad, who tells him how he came by his wealth through a series of sea voyages. Each voyage ends in shipwreck among marvels, monsters and strange islands, and each is told on a night of Shahrazad's telling.
42 chapters · About 155 minutes of published text
دمعة وابتسامة
By جبران خليل جبران
Kahlil Gibran's 1914 collection of short prose pieces in Arabic, written in New York for the Arabic press of the emigrants. Prose poems, parables and small scenes of love, death, poverty, nature and the poet's place in the world, in the soft, musical style that his later English books carried to a wider public.
55 chapters · About 89 minutes of published text
دہلی کی آخری شمع
By مرزا فرحت اللہ بیگ
Mirza Farhatullah Baig's Delhi's Last Candle (1928) is an imagined report of a poets' gathering held in Delhi in 1845, in the last years before the Mughal city was broken up. It introduces the poets one by one, among them Zauq, Ghalib and Momin, and is read for its picture of the city's manners and speech rather than for a plot.
5 chapters · About 121 minutes of published text