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Don Juan
By Lord Byron
Byron's unfinished epic satire follows the young Don Juan from his Spanish boyhood through shipwreck, a Greek island, a Turkish harem, the Russian court and an English country house, with the narrator's digressions on poets, politics and love. This edition gives sixteen cantos and the fragment of the seventeenth.
18 chapters · About 543 minutes of published text
Don Quijote
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A minor gentleman of La Mancha reads so many books of chivalry that he takes up an old lance and armour, calls himself Don Quixote, and rides out with the farmer Sancho Panza as his squire to right the wrongs of the world. Across two parts, their adventures play on the gap between his knightly visions and the dusty roads and inns of Spain.
120 chapters · About 1640 minutes of published text
Don Quijote de la Mancha
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (translated by Vilmos Győry)
An elderly gentleman of La Mancha reads so many romances of chivalry that he sets out as a knight errant with his squire Sancho Panza. This is Vilmos Győry's 1875 Hungarian version of both parts, abridged and adapted for young readers.
65 chapters · About 641 minutes of published text
Don Quixote
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (translated by John Ormsby)
Cervantes's novel of 1605 and 1615 follows a country gentleman who reads so many chivalric romances that he sets out as a knight, with his squire Sancho Panza. A reader finds windmills, comic misadventure and tenderness.
126 chapters · About 1747 minutes of published text
Don Segundo Sombra
By Ricardo Güiraldes
Fabio, an unwanted boy of the Argentine pampa, joins the old gaucho Don Segundo Sombra and learns his trade, his code and his silence on the long cattle drives. Güiraldes's classic is the portrait of a vanishing way of life as it passes down to a new generation.
27 chapters · About 266 minutes of published text
Doña Luz
By Juan Valera
Doña Luz, a young widow of an Andalusian village, falls for the visiting priest, Jacinto, and he for her, while the old village order tries to keep them apart. Valera's gentle novel in the vein of Pepita Jiménez treats love, duty and faith with a light touch.
21 chapters · About 255 minutes of published text
Doña Perfecta
By Benito Pérez Galdós
A young engineer comes to the cathedral town of Orbajosa to marry his cousin and meets the iron will of her mother, Doña Perfecta, who hides her spite behind piety. Galdós's novel of provincial intolerance moves from polite conversation to open violence.
33 chapters · About 283 minutes of published text
Dopo il divorzio
By Grazia Deledda
In a Sardinian village, Giovanni Era is sentenced to prison for a murder he says he did not commit. His young wife Giovanna, poor and pressed by her mother, makes use of a new divorce law, a choice that sets the village and her own conscience against her.
17 chapters · About 255 minutes of published text
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: Roman
By Norbert Jacques
In the restless Berlin of the early 1920s, rich young men are losing fortunes at cards to a stranger who seems to bend their will. A state prosecutor sets out to unmask the master of disguise behind the ruined lives and the spreading crimes. A fast, dark thriller whose villain became one of the most famous in German cinema.
19 chapters · About 324 minutes of published text
Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing who hunt and kill the Count.
27 chapters · About 700 minutes of published text
Drum-Taps
By Walt Whitman
Whitman's 1865 book of Civil War poems takes in the drums of the first call to arms, marches and bivouacs, and the hospital wards where he nursed wounded soldiers. It includes Beat! Beat! Drums!, Cavalry Crossing a Ford, The Wound-Dresser and Dirge for Two Veterans.
43 chapters · About 46 minutes of published text
Dubliners
By James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, written from 1904 to 1907. First published in 1914, Dubliners presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early twentieth century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. Joyce felt Irish nationalism, like Catholicism and British rule of Ireland, was responsible for a collective paralysis—a theme permeating much of the work.
15 chapters · About 293 minutes of published text
Dunamelléki eredeti népmesék (1. kötet)
By László Merényi
The first volume of the folk tales László Merényi collected along the Danube in the 1860s: three gold rings, the water of eternal youth, twelve black ravens, a proud princess and the tricks of gypsies, soldiers and priests.
12 chapters · About 131 minutes of published text
Dzieje grzechu
By Stefan Żeromski
Ewa Pobratyńska, a young woman of Warsaw, is drawn into a passionate affair with Łukasz Niepołomski, and a chain of lies, a child and a crime follows. Żeromski's two-volume novel of 1908 tells this 'story of a sin' with fierce psychological detail.
65 chapters · About 655 minutes of published text
Dziurdziowie
By Eliza Orzeszkowa
Peasants of a village, led by Stepan Dziurdzia, murder Pietrusia, a smith's wife who looks after her blind grandmother, out of pride, jealousy and a belief that she is a witch. Orzeszkowa's 1885 novel, a social study that opens like a riddle, follows the crime and the trial and ends in pity for the condemned.
9 chapters · About 225 minutes of published text
Een verlaten post
By Johanna van Woude
A widow sits by the fire on an autumn evening, a house of past happiness around her, and must face what her life is to become. Johanna van Woude's short novel follows her through eleven chapters.
11 chapters · About 114 minutes of published text
Eene Egyptische Koningsdochter: Historische Roman van George Ebers
By Georg Ebers (translated by Hendrik Cornelis Rogge)
Nitetis, daughter of the Egyptian king Amasis, is sent to Babylon as a bride for the Persian king Cambyses. Among jealous courtiers, Greek adventurers and an embittered Egyptian physician, Ebers recreates the courts of Egypt and Persia in the sixth century BC, here in H. C. Rogge's Dutch translation.
32 chapters · About 854 minutes of published text
Effi Briest
By Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane, published in book form in 1895. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th-century marriage from a female perspective, such as Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, which are also adultery tragedies.
36 chapters · About 416 minutes of published text
El alcalde de Zalamea
By Pedro Calderón de la Barca
When a captain dishonours the daughter of the wealthy peasant Pedro Crespo, and Crespo is made mayor of Zalamea, he arrests the officer and demands justice. Calderón's play sets the honour of a common man against the privilege of the army.
3 chapters · About 66 minutes of published text
El amigo de la muerte
By Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Gil Gil, a poor and clumsy young man, finds his luck turning when he makes a pact with Death herself, who teaches him medicine in an hour. Alarcón's early tale mixes the macabre and the comic in a fable about a doctor with a very special client.
17 chapters · About 99 minutes of published text
El amigo Manso
By Benito Pérez Galdós
Máximo Manso, a quiet philosophy teacher, claims in the first lines that he is only a fiction, then describes his life, the pupil he tutors and the women who disturb his calm. Galdós's playful novel is narrated by a man who is both witness and character in the shifting society of Madrid.
50 chapters · About 393 minutes of published text
El audaz
By Benito Pérez Galdós
Martín Muriel, a poor young man of the 1790s dazzled by the French Revolution, dreams of a Spanish republic while he courts a noblewoman far above him. Galdós follows his conspiracies and disappointments through a Madrid that watches Paris with fear and hope.
30 chapters · About 516 minutes of published text
El capitán Veneno
By Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Captain Veneno, a fierce old soldier with a savage temper, falls in love with the young woman whose family he lodges with. Alarcón's short novel is a rueful comedy of manners about love and a bad temper.
4 chapters · About 92 minutes of published text
El cisne de Vilamorta
By Emilia Pardo Bazán
Segundo García, a provincial poet who thinks himself a swan among geese, pursues a lady of the Galician town of Vilamorta, while a peasant girl loves him in vain. Pardo Bazán's novel is a gentle satire of romantic poses against a provincial backdrop.
29 chapters · About 230 minutes of published text