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Contos Phantasticos: segunda edição correcta e ampliada
By Teófilo Braga
A collection of short tales by Teófilo Braga, the scholar who later became president of Portugal, in an enlarged second edition. The stories draw on legend, history and the marvellous.
11 chapters · About 190 minutes of published text
Coriolanus
By William Shakespeare
Caius Martius wins the name Coriolanus by taking a city for Rome, but his contempt for the common people costs him the consulship and gets him banished. He turns on his own city at the head of its enemies, and only his mother can stop him.
5 chapters · About 127 minutes of published text
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
By John A. Lomax (collector)
John Lomax's 1910 collection of songs he gathered from cowboys, miners and railroad hands in the American West, among them The Dying Cowboy, Jesse James and The Days of Forty-Nine. The songs are given with his headnotes, and the introductions are left out here.
154 chapters · About 220 minutes of published text
Cranford
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford is an episodic novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published with minor revisions as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. The work slowly became popular and from the start of the 20th century it saw a number of dramatic treatments for the stage, the radio and TV.
16 chapters · About 306 minutes of published text
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing and is often cited as one of the greatest works of world literature.
39 chapters · About 881 minutes of published text
Cristina
By Matilde Serao
Picking basil on a sunny terrace, the young Cristina hears a soft whistle from behind a neighbour's house, and a quiet courtship begins. A short novel in three chapters by Matilde Serao, followed by her story Sacrilegio.
4 chapters · About 46 minutes of published text
Cuentos de amor
By Emilia Pardo Bazán
A collection of short stories about love in its many shapes, from courtship and marriage to jealousy, sacrifice and disappointment. Pardo Bazán sets them among the aristocrats, townspeople and villagers of late nineteenth-century Spain.
43 chapters · About 269 minutes of published text
Daisy Miller: A Study
By Henry James
Daisy Miller, A Study is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.
2 chapters · About 93 minutes of published text
Damiano: Storia di una povera famiglia
By Giulio Carcano
In May 1831, in a lonely lane on the edge of Milan, an old soldier of Napoleon dies poor and forgotten. Carcano follows the fortunes of a humble family through hardship, work and hope, in a long novel of working-class Milanese life written in the tradition of Manzoni.
38 chapters · About 552 minutes of published text
Dâstân-ı Leylî vü Mecnûn
By Fuzûlî
Kays loves Leyla from childhood, but her family keeps them apart, and he wanders the desert among the wild animals, the Mecnun of the title. Fuzuli's 1535 masnavi of some three thousand couplets tells of a love that can only be completed in death.
31 chapters · About 144 minutes of published text
David Copperfield
By Charles Dickens
David Copperfield is a novel by the English author Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. As such, it is typically categorized in the bildungsroman genre. It was published as a serial in 1849 and 1850 and then as a book in 1850.
64 chapters · About 1537 minutes of published text
De kleine Johannes
By Frederik van Eeden
Johannes, a boy who loves the dunes and the garden behind his house, is befriended by the elf Windekind, who makes him small enough to live among the insects and flowers and speak their language. His longing for the book that explains everything leads him to stranger and darker guides, in a fairy tale that becomes an allegory of growing up.
14 chapters · About 164 minutes of published text
De komedianten
By Louis Couperus
Rome under the emperor Domitian: in the rain-soaked Suburra, the twin brothers Cecilius and Cecilianus belong to a troupe of comic actors who play in taverns, rich men's houses and theatres. Couperus follows the company through a teeming city of patrons, poets such as Martial, slaves, courtesans and the emperor's spectacles.
20 chapters · About 394 minutes of published text
De la terre à la lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes
By Jules Verne
After the Civil War the gunners of the Baltimore Gun Club have nothing left to shoot, so their president proposes firing a projectile at the Moon. The plan grows into a national enterprise, and then a Frenchman asks to ride inside it.
28 chapters · About 232 minutes of published text
De Leeuw van Vlaanderen: Of de Slag der Gulden Sporen
By Hendrik Conscience
Flanders around 1300: the French king holds the count and his son Robrecht van Bethune, the Lion of Flanders, and his governors squeeze the cities. In Bruges the weaver Pieter de Coninck and the butcher Jan Breydel rouse the guilds, and Conscience's patriotic novel builds toward the battle at Kortrijk in 1302.
24 chapters · About 568 minutes of published text
De lelie van 's-Gravenhage
By Jacobus Jan Cremer
From a stormy November night in 1595, this historical novel follows the lovely Adelgonde and the people around her in The Hague and on a Meuse castle, in the years of the Dutch war against Spain. The edition adds Cremer's occasional pieces: a legend, sketches, letters and an essay against war.
42 chapters · About 654 minutes of published text
De Pleegzoon
By J. van Lennep
At a great wedding in Leiden in 1598, when a daughter of Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde marries a baron, the story of a foster child at the edge of the Dutch Republic's court begins. Van Lennep's early historical novel carries him through intrigue and danger in thirty-three chapters.
33 chapters · About 713 minutes of published text
De Reis naar de Maan in 28 dagen en 12 uren
By Jules Verne (translated by Evangeline)
With the war over, the gunners of Baltimore's Gun Club need a new project, and their president proposes firing a shell to the Moon. This Dutch edition joins both halves of the story: the casting of the giant cannon in Florida, and the voyage of the three men who choose to ride inside the projectile.
48 chapters · About 285 minutes of published text
De vandrande djäknarne
By Viktor Rydberg
Two schoolboys from Växjö, the big good-natured farmer's son Göran and the slight young baron Adolf, set off across the woods of Småland on a summer botany trip that is really a hunt for adventure. Viktor Rydberg's early serial novel, written under a pen name, mixes pranks and comedy with a rival in love, a recruiting officer and an auction.
12 chapters · About 153 minutes of published text
De vreemde plant
By Herman Johan Robbers
A motherless girl who has lived since childhood in a dream of a strange garden, where she is a tall white flower, grows into a fragile and over-refined young woman. When the plain, practical Wim asks her to marry him, she accepts, and Robbers follows what an ordinary household and family make of her.
30 chapters · About 112 minutes of published text
Dead Souls
By Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (translated by D. J. Hogarth)
Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle aristocracy of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a "poem in prose". Gogol intended the novel to be the first part of a three-volume work, but burned the manuscript of the second part shortly before his death.
15 chapters · About 599 minutes of published text
Den ljusa skalpen: Nya präriehistorier
By Sigge Strömberg
A dozen comic stories of the American West by Sigge Strömberg: cowboys, card sharps, schoolteachers and settlers, a congressman's campaign and a Swedish cook on the prairie. The title story turns on a fair-haired scalp; the rest are quick tall tales with a twist at the end.
12 chapters · About 90 minutes of published text
Den siste Atenaren
By Viktor Rydberg
Athens in the fourth century, when the old gods are losing ground: the philosopher Krysanteus and his daughter Hermione hold to the ancient faith, while an ambitious bishop and his followers mean to see it destroyed. Viktor Rydberg's historical novel sets love, family ties and political schemes against the clash between dying paganism and a Church grown hungry for power.
32 chapters · About 654 minutes of published text
Den Underbara Spegeln
By Otto Witt
On a blazing June day in the Berlin of 1950, as imagined in 1914, a lieutenant arrives in suspiciously high spirits, a will is read, and a plan takes shape to build a giant mirror for a telescope on a volcanic island. Otto Witt's early Swedish science fiction mixes inventions, a theft, a mysterious parcel and a ghostly voice.
21 chapters · About 108 minutes of published text