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• Barnen ifrån Frostmofjället

  By Laura Fitinghoff

  Seven orphaned siblings are left alone in the Jämtland hills when their mother dies, and set out on foot across Sweden to find a new home, helped and hindered by the people they meet. Laura Fitinghoff's children's classic, based on a true story of the 1860s, follows the children through forty chapters of hunger, kindness and hope.

  40 chapters · About 279 minutes of published text

• Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

  By Ingersoll Lockwood

  Baron Trump, a young Prussian nobleman, sets off on travels in the far north and descends into a hollow world of strange peoples and marvels. Ingersoll Lockwood's 1889 children's fantasy is a quirky Victorian adventure in the Jules Verne manner.

  32 chapters · About 289 minutes of published text

• Barrack-Room Ballads

  By Rudyard Kipling

  Kipling's songs in the voice of the common British soldier, from Danny Deever, Tommy and Gunga Din to Mandalay and the Widow at Windsor, gave the army in India a voice that had not been heard in English verse before. This edition has the First Series of 1892 and the Second Series of 1896.

  38 chapters · About 67 minutes of published text

• Bartek Zwycięzca

  By Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Bartek Słowik, a slow, good-natured Polish peasant from the Prussian-ruled Poznań region, is drafted in 1870 and, to his own surprise, becomes a hero at Gravelotte. Sienkiewicz tells what the Iron Cross does to him in the village and in the army that holds him.

  10 chapters · About 68 minutes of published text

• Beasts and Super-Beasts

  By Saki

  Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window", are reprinted frequently in anthologies.

  33 chapters · About 268 minutes of published text

• Beatrice Cenci: Storia del secolo XVI

  By Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

  In late sixteenth-century Rome the brutal Count Francesco Cenci terrorises his household, and above all his daughter Beatrice. Guerrazzi turns the famous true case into a fierce romantic novel of cruelty, desperation, trial and papal justice.

  32 chapters · About 921 minutes of published text

• Béla, a buta

  By Dezső Kosztolányi

  Ten stories by Dezső Kosztolányi, among them the title story of a slow-witted boy, a toothache told in ten short scenes, a glass eye and a father. They are precise, quiet studies of ordinary people and the odd turns in their lives.

  10 chapters · About 68 minutes of published text

• Beowulf

  By Anonymous (translated by Francis Barton Gummere)

  The Geatish hero Beowulf crosses the sea to free King Hrothgar's hall from the man-eating Grendel, then kills Grendel's mother in her lair beneath a mere. Fifty years on, as king of the Geats, he faces a dragon that guards a barrow hoard, and the fight is his last.

  42 chapters · About 101 minutes of published text

• Betuwsche novellen, en Een reisgezelschap

  By Jacobus Jan Cremer

  Tales of farmers, servants and village households in the Betuwe, the river country of Gelderland, many of them told in the local dialect. The volume also holds Een reisgezelschap, a comic account of a Hague family's trip to their country cousin, and the longer story Ritters Hans.

  19 chapters · About 627 minutes of published text

• Bez przewodnika

  By Cecylia Niewiadomska

  Two schoolboy brothers, the self-assured Janek and the timid Tadzio, set off on their own for Zakopane and the Tatra mountains, Janek having decided that they need no guide. A short story for young readers about a summer journey, its mishaps and what Janek's pride costs them.

  5 chapters · About 27 minutes of published text

• Black Beauty: The autobiography of a horse

  By Anna Sewell

  Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With over fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.

  49 chapters · About 259 minutes of published text

• Bleak House

  By Charles Dickens

  Bleak House is a novel by the English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which comes about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens said there were many actual precedents for his fictional case.

  67 chapters · About 1531 minutes of published text

• Boken om lille-bror: Ett äktenskaps roman

  By Gustaf af Geijerstam

  A husband sets down the story of his marriage, from first love through the birth of their children, as the book his youngest son, Little Brother, once asked him to write. Gustaf af Geijerstam's novel of 1900 is about happiness, loss and how love changes as the years go by.

  46 chapters · About 207 minutes of published text

• Bom-Crioulo

  By Adolfo Caminha

  Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin Boy is a novel by the Brazilian writer Adolfo Caminha, first published in 1895. An English translation by E.A. Lacey was published in 1982 by Gay Sunshine. The novel, whose narrative follows the character Amaro, an ex-slave who works for the Navy and who, at a given moment, falls in love with the young cabin boy Aleixo, was the first major literary work on homosexuality to be published in Brazil, and one of the first to have a black person as its hero. The novel caused a stir upon its publication but was almost forgotten in the first half of the 20th century.

  12 chapters · About 155 minutes of published text

• Boule de Suif

  By Guy de Maupassant

  "Boule de Suif", translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", "Ball of Lard", or "Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant, first published on 15/16 April 1880. It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, titled Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre (Dumpling and Other Stories of the War).

  12 chapters · About 156 minutes of published text

• Brennendes Geheimnis: Erzählung

  By Stefan Zweig

  At a resort hotel in the mountains, a bored young baron makes friends with a twelve-year-old boy in order to get close to the boy's mother. The child, delighted at first, slowly realises that the grown-ups are keeping a secret from him and sets out to discover it. A tense novella of a child at the edge of the adult world.

  15 chapters · About 98 minutes of published text

• Brethyn Cartref: Ystraeon Cymreig

  By T. Gwynn Jones

  Homespun, as the title says: fifteen short stories of Welsh country life by the poet and scholar T. Gwynn Jones. A sheepdog with more sense than most men, a couple who come back to look for the home they left, a preacher's one memorable sermon, a village poet, a boy's first love and an election quarrel are drawn with dry humour and affection.

  15 chapters · About 118 minutes of published text

• Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie

  By Thomas Mann

  Buddenbrooks or The Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu.

  97 chapters · About 1019 minutes of published text

• Bukfenc

  By Gyula Krúdy

  Gyöngyvirág grows up in her grandmother's shuttered house in a Pest side street, a discreet place where gentlemen come and go. Krúdy's short novel follows her from a strange childhood to first love and the hope of getting away.

  12 chapters · About 87 minutes of published text

• Bulalakaw ng Pag-asa

  By Ismael A. Amado

  When a swaggering American newcomer assaults a Filipino shopkeeper who refuses him credit, and the police only watch, nineteen-year-old Gerardo steps in. The fight sets him on a course of love for the gentle Eling and of defiance toward the bullies, local bosses and foreign masters of his country. A fiery patriotic novel from the first decade of American rule.

  21 chapters · About 113 minutes of published text

• Cádiz

  By Benito Pérez Galdós

  Gabriel Araceli reaches Cádiz in 1810, where the Cortes meet under French bombardment and Spain's first liberal constitution is being drafted. Galdós sets his adventure and love story among the debates, rumours and street life of the besieged port.

  35 chapters · About 331 minutes of published text

• Caesar and Cleopatra

  By Bernard Shaw

  Julius Caesar, a middle-aged man of dry wit, finds the sixteen-year-old Cleopatra hiding between the paws of the Sphinx and teaches her to rule while Alexandria is under siege. Shaw's history play asks what a wise man really sees in a dazzling and cruel girl.

  5 chapters · About 143 minutes of published text

• Camera Obscura

  By Hildebrand

  Writing as Hildebrand, Nicolaas Beets sketched the Dutch middle classes of the 1830s: schoolboys, a provincial family receiving a student visitor, a bore in the Haarlemmerhout, the household of the Kegge family. This edition adds his later scattered pieces, among them a dozen portraits of Dutch types from the ferryman to the midwife.

  33 chapters · About 686 minutes of published text

• Cañas y barro

  By Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

  In the marshes of the Albufera lagoon, Tonet, a young fisherman's grandson, is torn between work and an easy life, and a love affair ends badly for everyone. Blasco Ibáñez's novel is a vivid picture of the lagoon's people, its boatmen and its seasons.

  10 chapters · About 326 minutes of published text