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  L'estudiant de la Garrotxa:...

  Josep Berga i Boix

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  "L'estudiant de la Garrotxa" by Josep Berga i Boix is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set between Girona and the stark valleys and cliffs of La Garrotxa, it follows a poor seminarian who discovers a talent for decorative painting, rises to local renown, and is pulled between priesthood, art, and his growing love for Margarida, the rector's niece. The story blends lively portraits of student poverty and small-town life with an intimate emotional conflict over vocation and desire. The opening of the work presents a first-person narrator among a band of penniless seminarians in Girona, hustling for food and lodging while he earns coins modeling pessebre figures and learning gilding. His craft brings him to paint chapels, first in Girona and then in a Garrotxa village, where the kindly rector Mossèn Anton hosts him and his niece Margarida quietly captivates him. As they decorate the church together, shared glances, garden walks, and whispered exchanges turn affection into a consuming inward struggle that clashes with his supposed calling. The narrator's fame grows, yet seeing older masterful canvases humbles him and pushes him to study drawing seriously. Sent to an isolated hermitage, he endures comic overfeeding at a farmer's house, returns by pretext to the rectory, and faces village gossip and the suspicious eye of the fiery vicar Mossèn Just. Forced back to Girona, he parts from Margarida in a painful dawn farewell, throws himself into drawing and small commissions, and then a chance encounter with the vicar shakes his resolve to return—leaving the early narrative poised at a tense crossroads. This Catalan-language digital edition is prepared with active navigation, clean typography, a custom cover and a reading file stripped of source-site notices, donation text and unnecessary external links.

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  La teranyina

  Joseph Roth

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  «Un color vermell infinit, sorollós, envoltava en Theodor. Al camp de batalla havia vist i sentit aquest vermell, un vermell que cridava, que bramava com si sortís de mil goles, un vermell que tremolava, flamejava com mil focs; vermells eren els arbres, vermella era la terra groga, vermelles les fulles marrons del terra, vermell el cel que balla entre els avets; vermell llampant és la llum del sol que juga entre els troncs.»
  
  Theodor Lohse és un home mediocre, un antic oficial alemany que s'uneix als grups d'extrema dreta sorgits després de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Sense escrúpols, es val de la violència i la manipulació per escalar posicions i infiltrar-se en el poder d'una societat desorientada i ferida.

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  La orfaneta de Menargues; o...

  Antoni de Bofarull

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  "La orfaneta de Menargues; o, Catalunya agonisant" by Antoni de Bofarull is a historical novel published in Barcelona in 1862. It is the first historical novel written in Catalan after the fifteenth-century "Tirant lo Blanc." Set during the 1413-1416 succession war for the Crown of Aragon, the work weaves together historical events with a romantic plot. The novel champions Catalan national identity while featuring real figures like King Ferdinand and Barcelona councilor Joan Fiveller alongside fictional characters navigating love and intrigue. This Catalan-language digital edition is prepared with active navigation, clean typography, a custom cover and a reading file stripped of source-site notices, donation text and unnecessary external links.

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  Els camins del paradis perdut

  Llorenc Riber

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  "Els camins del paradís perdut" by Llorenç Riber is a collection of legendary narratives written in the late 19th century. The work encompasses two distinct tales, focusing on the adventures of St. Brendan and his monks as they embark on a mystical quest for Paradise, exploring themes of spirituality, faith, and the nature of divine wonders. The opening of the narrative introduces St. Brendan, a virtuous abbot, who is inspired to seek the lost Paradise after a visit from his nephew Barint, who recites tales of miraculous lands. As he prepares to embark on this monumental journey with seven chosen monks, their faith drives them to discover a celestial facet of existence marked by spiritual richness and divine light. Their discussion, reflections, and decisions are intertwined with the legends of the Garden of Eden, drawing readers into a timeless quest where physical and spiritual explorations intermingle, setting the stage for the remarkable adventures that lie ahead. This Catalan-language digital edition is prepared with active navigation, clean typography, a custom cover and a reading file stripped of source-site notices, donation text and unnecessary external links.

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  Josep i els seus germans IV -...

  Thomas Mann

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  Sí, és ell. L'home amb qui visitem la mil·lenària ciutat dels ulls parpellejants ha canviat molt, des d'aquell vespre que va fer esparverar Jaacob amb el seu lasciu galanteig lunar al caire del pou. Però, per molt que portéssim anys sense veure'l i se'ns presentés com la Veu Suprema del Faraó, encimbellat com un semideu i envoltat d'un exèrcit d'escribes, hauríem de ser beneits per no reconèixer-lo. Nosaltres, que no només sabem aquesta història sinó que hi hem estat sempre presents, ens mirarem amb un somriure d'elegits el retrobament de Josep i els fills d'Israel, i els turments de la seva nova condició, tan prenyada de llicències. Ara no podem amagar el compungiment davant la fi d'aquesta bella història de Déu, aquesta «fenomenal broma divina», però no ens mourem de lloc, perquè hem de veure com la tribu riu, plora i allarga les mans cap al Proveïdor per una provisional última vegada. Sí, la tribu som nosaltres.

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  L'esca del pecat

  M. (Miquel) Figuerola Aldrofeu

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  "L'esca del pecat" by M. Figuerola Aldroféu is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in Barcelona, it likely explores moral corruption, social hypocrisy, and the vulnerability of working people to predatory elites. It follows Gracieta, a virtuous young seamstress, and her widowed father Pau, targeted by the charming but violent dandy Arturo Bosch and his henchman, while a parallel thread involves the kept woman Antonia de Roca-viva and a jaded marquess. The opening of this novel introduces Pau, a good-natured cobbler, and his daughter Gracieta, courted by Arturo, who poses as a prosperous "stock man." After Gracieta seeks her father's approval, Arturo refuses a humble meeting and instead plots with his fixer, Mala-ánima, to lure Pau away and assault Gracieta in a rented flat; she resists, raises the alarm, and is forced to shield Arturo to save her father, who is being held and wounded. We then see Arturo's double life: he lives grandly under an alias, keeps Antonia—whom he brutally violates—and partners in an insurance-fraud scheme using dynamite-laden crates disguised as goods bound for Montevideo. Meanwhile, a marquess and his club friends gossip, the marquess seduces and installs Antonia after she leaves Arturo, and Gracieta's coworkers and neighbors piece together clues (with a portress's help) to find Arturo, just as he finalizes the explosive scam and swears vengeance against Gracieta. This Catalan-language digital edition is prepared with active navigation, clean typography, a custom cover and a reading file stripped of source-site notices, donation text and unnecessary external links.

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