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Anne of Avonlea
By L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea is a 1909 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, who published as L. M. Montgomery. The first sequel to Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley, from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at the Avonlea school on Prince Edward Island.
30 chapters · About 394 minutes of published text
Anne of Green Gables
By L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of an 11-year-old orphan girl Anne Shirley sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.
38 chapters · About 443 minutes of published text
Anne of the Island
By L. M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island is the third novel in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1915. The plot sees Anne Shirley leave Green Gables in Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, for the first time to attend Redmond College in Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
41 chapters · About 331 minutes of published text
Antony and Cleopatra
By William Shakespeare
The Roman general Mark Antony, torn between his duty in Rome and his love for Cleopatra of Egypt, is drawn into war with Octavius Caesar. The play follows the lovers from the feasts of Alexandria to the defeat at Actium and the monument where each chooses death over capture.
5 chapters · About 115 minutes of published text
Ao Entardecer
By Visconde de Taunay
Short stories by the Visconde de Taunay, the soldier and writer of Inocência, collected a few years after his death. The first, Pobre Menino!, begins on a train from São Paulo to Rio, and the rest are Brazilian scenes of children, outcasts and the countryside.
25 chapters · About 138 minutes of published text
Argonauci
By Eliza Orzeszkowa
Alojzy Darwid, a Warsaw millionaire who made his fortune with his own iron industry, lives in a house of enormous luxury among people who chase gold like the Argonauts of old. Orzeszkowa's late novel of 1900 is a satire and a study of money and the lives it shapes.
11 chapters · About 299 minutes of published text
Arms and the Man
By Bernard Shaw
In the Serbo-Bulgarian war, a Swiss mercenary who carries chocolates instead of cartridges takes refuge in the bedroom of Raina Petkoff, whose fiance is a Bulgarian officer. Shaw puts the glory of battle and the romance of heroism under a comic glass.
3 chapters · About 101 minutes of published text
Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Jean Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £2.5 million in 2024) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
37 chapters · About 270 minutes of published text
Arroz y tartana
By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Doña Manuela, a Valencian widow, keeps up appearances for her spendthrift family on a failing business and a growing debt. Blasco Ibáñez's early novel is a vivid study of bourgeois pride and ruin in the city of the 1880s.
11 chapters · About 395 minutes of published text
Arsène Lupin intervenes
By Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc's gentleman burglar Arsene Lupin returns in a set of cases where his wit tips the balance. Master of disguise, he steals from the rich and outwits the police. Pure, stylish French adventure.
11 chapters · About 259 minutes of published text
Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur
By Maurice Leblanc
The first adventures of Arsène Lupin, the charming burglar who announces his thefts in advance and slips out of every trap the police set. Here he meets his patient pursuer, Inspector Ganimard, and a famous English detective.
9 chapters · About 231 minutes of published text
As Minas de Salomão
By H. Rider Haggard (translated by Eça de Queirós)
Eça de Queirós's Portuguese version of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. The hunter Allan Quatermain agrees to guide Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good into the African interior in search of Sir Henry's lost brother, following an old map towards a legendary treasure.
17 chapters · About 246 minutes of published text
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
By Júlio Dinis
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor is a Portuguese romance novel by Júlio Dinis, written in 1863 and published in 1867. It was a success, and followed with a number of similar themed novels, such as A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1868). The novel is set in the second half of the nineteenth century in a Portuguese village, and related the story of Margaret and Clara and her romances with the sons of the farmer, José das Dornas, Daniel and Pedro. It was adapted into three films: in 1922, in 1935 and in 1960. In 1995, Brazil, it has gained a novela adaption broadcast by SBT.
42 chapters · About 419 minutes of published text
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Rosalind, banished from her uncle's court, flees to the Forest of Arden dressed as a young man and finds Orlando, who is carving love poems on the trees. Disguised, she teaches him how to woo, while exiles, shepherds and the melancholy Jaques fill the wood.
6 chapters · About 99 minutes of published text
Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh, an orphan raised in Italy and England, refuses her cousin Romney's offer of marriage so that she can be a poet, and the novel in blank verse follows her to London and Paris and back to Florence. In nine books it argues about art, women's work and social reform.
9 chapters · About 376 minutes of published text
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Novelle
By Joseph Eichendorff
A miller's idle son is sent out into the world with nothing but his fiddle and a cheerful heart. He drifts to a castle near Vienna, falls hopelessly in love with a lady he believes far above him, and wanders on to Italy through a tangle of disguises and misunderstandings. The classic novella of German Romanticism, full of songs, landscapes and good luck.
10 chapters · About 137 minutes of published text
Aventuras do Dr. Bogoloff
By Lima Barreto
A Russian who leaves Odessa with the most honest of intentions tells in the first person of his adventures in Brazil, where his gift for impressing officials and the credulous takes him a long way. Lima Barreto's short comic novel of 1912 is a mocking tale of credulity and officialdom.
4 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text
Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
By Lewis Carroll (translated by Henri Bué)
A French translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole into a land of shrinking and growing, mad tea parties and a queen who wants heads off.
12 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text
Aves Migradoras
By Fialho de Almeida
A late collection by Fialho de Almeida, opening with the title piece and including stories of village and town life such as O Sineiro de Santa-Agatha, Pequeno Drama na Aldeia and A Eminente Actriz. It shows his richly coloured prose turned to people on the move and the passions of small places.
7 chapters · About 228 minutes of published text
Az időgép
By H. G. Wells (translated by Lajos Mikes)
A Victorian inventor travels hundreds of thousands of years ahead and finds humanity split into the gentle Eloi and the Morlocks who live underground. H. G. Wells's novella in Lajos Mikes's Hungarian translation.
17 chapters · About 114 minutes of published text
Azab dan Sengsara
By Merari Siregar
Mariamin and Aminu'ddin, who have grown up as neighbours in the highlands of Sipirok, hope to marry, but his father, bound by family interest and custom, sends him away and has Mariamin married off to a stranger. Merari Siregar's novel of 1920, one of the first modern novels in Indonesian, follows her suffering to its end and sets it against the claims of adat and money.
9 chapters · About 175 minutes of published text
Baboe Dalima
By M. T. H. Perelaer
On Java the opium monopoly, farmed out to Chinese leaseholders, reaches into every village and government office. Through Dalima, a Javanese nursemaid in a Dutch official's household, and the families around her, Perelaer sets out how the opium trade corrupts officials and ruins villagers.
42 chapters · About 883 minutes of published text
Bahnwärter Thiel
By Gerhart Hauptmann
Two novellas. In the first, a quiet railway signalman in the pine forests near Berlin lives between the memory of his dead first wife and the domineering second wife who neglects his little son, while the trains thunder past his hut. The second, Der Apostel, follows a lonely visionary on a walk through Zurich.
2 chapters · About 70 minutes of published text
Bannlyst
By Selma Lagerlöf
Sven Elversson comes home from a polar expedition to the island of Grimön on the west coast of Sweden, followed by a rumour of what the starving men did to stay alive, and the island turns its back on him. Selma Lagerlöf's novel of 1918 follows the outcast as he tries to live a good life among people who will not forgive him, while the war at sea washes up on their shores.
28 chapters · About 332 minutes of published text