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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen • 2015
A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Charles Dickens • 1991
In October 1843, Charles Dickens heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher began work on a book to help supplement his family's meager income. That volume, "A Christmas Carol, "has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, this perennial favorite continues to delight new readers and rekindle thoughts of charity and goodwill.<br>With its characters exhibiting many qualities as well as failures often ascribed to Dickens himself, the imaginative and entertaining tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's eerie encounters with a series of spectral visitors. Journeying with them through Christmases past, present, and future, he is ultimately transformed from an arrogant, obstinate, and insensitive miser to a generous, warmhearted, and caring human being. Written by one of England's greatest and most popular novelists, "A Christmas Carol" has come to epitomize the true meaning of Christmas.<br>Unabridged and unaltered Dover (1991) republication of the text of the first edition (1843, Chapman and Hall, London).<br>"
Memórias do Subsolo
_ • 2009
Escrito na cabeceira de morte de sua primeira mulher, numa situação de aguda necessidade financeira, Memórias do subsolo condensa um dos momentos mais importantes da literatura ocidental, reunindo vários temas que reaparecerão mais tarde nos últimos grandes romances do escritor russo.<br/>Aqui ressoa a voz do "homem do subsolo", o personagem-narrador que, à força de paradoxos, investe ferozmente contra tudo e contra todos - contra a ciência e contra a superstição, contra o progresso e contra o atraso, contra a razão e a desrazão, mas investe, acima de tudo, contra o solo da própria consciência, criando uma narrativa ímpar, de altíssima voltagem poética, que se afirma e se nega a si mesma sucessivamente.<br/>Não é por acaso que muitos acabaram vendo neste livro uma prefiguração das ideias de Freud acerca do inconsciente. O próprio Nietzsche, ao lê-lo pela primeira vez, escreveu a um amigo: "A voz do sangue (como denominá-lo de outro modo?) fez-se ouvir de imediato e minha alegria não teve limites".<br/><br/>Paperback<br/>Publisher: Editora 34; 3 edition (June 6, 2009)<br/>Language: Portuguese Brazilian<br/>ISBN-10: 8573261854<br/>ISBN-13: 978-8573261851<br/>Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches<br/>Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Onde Estivestes de Noite - Edicao Comemorativa (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Clarice Lispector • 2019
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • 2000
<p>This beloved, world-famous allegorical classic about a young prince on a quest for knowledge is an essential read for every home library.</p> <p>Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original full-color art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.</p> <p>Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. When a pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert, he meets a little boy who asks him to draw a sheep. Gradually the Little Prince reveals more about himself: He comes from a small asteroid, where he lived alone until a rose grew there.</p> <p>But the rose grew demanding, and he was confused by his feelings about her. The story unfolds further from one planet to the next in a thoughtful philosophical exploration of love and the ephemeral.</p>
Drácula (Clásicos ilustrados) (Spanish Edition)
Bram Stoker • 2019
Drácula is the essential vampire novel in which Stoker sparks the core themes of the subgenre: the fight between good and evil and the sensuality of the vampire. It tells the story of Jonathan Harker, an estate agent who the enigmatic Count Dracula summons to his castle in Transylvania to help find a home in London—so Dracula may find new victims and spread his curse.
The Secret Garden (Wordsworth Collector's Editions)
Frances Hodgson Burnett • 2018
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett is one of the best-loved stories of all time. Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them.
Frankstein
Mary Shelley • 2020
Água Viva
Clarice Lispector • 2021
Escrevo-te toda inteira e sinto um sabor em ser e o sabor- -a-ti é abstrato como o instante. É também com o corpo todo que pinto os meus quadros e na tela fixo o incorpóreo, eu corpo a corpo comigo mesma. Não se compreende música: ouve-se. Ouve-me então com teu corpo inteiro. Quando vieres a me ler perguntarás por que não me restrinjo à pintura e às minhas exposições, já que escrevo tosco e sem ordem. É que agora sinto necessidade de palavras - e é novo para mim o que escrevo porque minha verdadeira palavra foi até agora intocada. A palavra é a minha quarta dimensão. de Clarice Lispector
O Mágico de Oz
L. Frank Baum • 2020
Passeio ao farol (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Virginia Woolf • 2019
Passeio ao farol é, como comentou a própria autora em seus diários, uma tentativa de exorcizar a figura da mãe e, em especial, a de seu pai, por quem nutria sentimentos ambivalentes que são analisados em minúcias nesta obra-prima do alto modernismo europeu.
Hamlet (AmazonClassics Edition)
William Shakespeare • 2017
1984
George Orwell • 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
A Importância de Ser Prudente - Coleção L&PM Pocket - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Oscar Wilde • 2014
Romeo and Juliet (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)
William Shakespeare • 1993
One of Shakespeare's most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families. The play contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written. This inexpensive edition includes the complete, unabridged text with explanatory footnotes. Ideal for classroom use, it is a wonderful addition to the home library of anyone wanting to savor one of literature's most sublime paeans to love.
Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations By Sir John Tenniel (A Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll)
Lewis Carroll • 2021
“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland<br/>This Beautiful edition contains complete original black and white illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.<br/>Alice in Wonderland is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.<br/>One of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. The work has never been out of print and has been translated into at least 97 languages. Its ongoing legacy encompasses many adaptations for stage, screen, radio, art, ballet, theme parks, board games and video games.<br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
George Orwell • 2021
<p>2021 Facsimile of the 1945 Edition. This is now considered a classic Satire on dictatorship and one of Orwell's most enduring short novels. Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. The future, however, is far from certain as the drama plays out in actual events. A cautionary tale.<br/>Reviews<br/>"Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history."-Malcolm Bradbury<br/>"As lucid as glass and quite as sharp...[Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift."-Atlantic Monthly<br/>"A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times."-The New York Times<br/>"Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift."-Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker<br/>"Orwell's satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written."-San Francisco Chronicle<br/>"The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed."-Ruth Rendell</p>
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 1989
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.<br/><br/>Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.<br/><br/>“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” —from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie<br/><br/>First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 2021
Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life.<br/>Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every sin.
Felicidade Clandestina - Edicao Comemorativa (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Clarice Lispector • 2019
Desde o início, Clarice Lispector recusou a escravidão dos gêneros. Escrevia por fragmentos que depois montava. Escrevia aos arrancos, transcrevendo um ditado interior. As estruturas clássicas não faziam parte desse ditado. Seu olhar passava por cima das regras, quase voraz em sua busca da essência.Este livro bem o demonstra. É composto por contos escritos em épocas diversas da vida de Clarice. E por não contos. Muitos deles – como “Felicidade clandestina”, que dá título ao livro – foram publicados no Caderno B do Jornal do Brasil. Como crônicas. Que também não eram crônicas.Convidada em 1967 para escrever no JB, Clarice deparou-se com um fazer literário novo. Logo negou os padrões vigentes: “Vamos falar a verdade: isto aqui não é crônica coisa nenhuma. Isto é apenas. Não entra em gêneros. Gêneros não me interessam mais.”E “isto” era a mais pura e rica literatura. Nos contos / crônicas / textos – que eu, como subeditora do Caderno recebia semanalmente, Clarice se expunha em recordações familiares e de infância. Sua irmã Tania ainda se lembra da menina, filha de livreiro, que encontramos em “Felicidade clandestina”, atormentando Clarice por conta do empréstimo de um livro. O professor de “Os desastres de Sofia” realmente percebeu o tesouro que Clarice menina escondia. E “Come, meu filho” é um claro diálogo entre a autora e seu filho. Nada diferencia esses contos, escritos para serem crônicas, de outros contos que aqui estão, escritos para serem contos e publicados anteriormente no livro A legião estrangeira. Seus textos podem ser desmontados, desfeitos em pedaços – até mesmo diferentes dos fragmentos originais –
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2002
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read<br/><br/>Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.<br/>This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky’s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky’s life and work.
Primeiro Amor (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Ivan Turgueniev • 2015
Um Sopro De Vida - edicao Comemorativa (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Clarice Lispector • 2019
Quando a escritora Clarice Lispector terminou Um sopro de vida, às vésperas de sua morte, por câncer, em 1977, sabia que este seria o seu livro definitivo. O livro era de fato o sopro de vida de Clarice, que precisava escrever para se sentir viva. Na história, ela fala de um homem aflito que criou uma personagem, Angela Pralini, seu alter-ego. Mas ora ele não se reconhecia em Angela, porque ela era o seu avesso, ora odiava visceralmente o que via refletido naquela estranha personagem-espelho. O autor elabora Angela Pralini, mas ela toma vida própria, surpreendendo e revoltando seu criador com suas diferenças. Um processo de criação, uma relação em que Clarice Lispector revela os conflitos de um autor com seus próprios impulsos e o quanto é doloroso aceitá-los e deixá-los fluir. Ainda que estes impulsos se realizem através de uma personagem, Angela Pralini, criada para libertar o autor de seus fantasmas, cumpre o destino de ser o sopro de vida de um escritor. A questão da vida e da morte atormenta este autor criado por Clarice em seus últimos momentos de vida: "Se me perguntarem se existe vida além da morte... respondo num hesitante esquema: existe mas não é dado saber de que forma essa alma viverá... Vida, vida recoberta em um véu de melancolia. Morte: farol que me guia em rumo certo. Sinto-me magnífico e solitário entre a vida e a morte", diz o autor, ao qual responde a personagem Angela Pralini: "Na hora de minha morte - que é que eu faço? Me ensinem como é que se morre. Eu não sei." Ao longo destes impulsos de vida e de morte que resultaram em Um sopro de vida, o livro definitivo, Clarice Lispector escreveu a sua última obra publicada, A hora da estrela. Nova edição, agora com projeto gráfico de Victor Burton e capa criada a partir de pinturas da própria Clarice. Esta edição traz posfácio do professor de literatura Carlos Mendes de Sousa.
The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition
Clarice Lispector • 2020
Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
Emma
Austen Jane • 2015
Emma Woodhouse, Handsome, Clever, And Rich, With A Comfortable Home And Happy Disposition, Seemed To Unite Some Of The Best Blessings Of Existence; And Had Lived Nearly Twenty-one Years In The World With Very Little To Distress Or Vex Her. (...) The Real Evils, Indeed, Of Emma's Situation Were The Power Of Having Rather Too Much Her Own Way, And A Disposition To Think A Little Too Well Of Herself; These Were The Disadvantages Which Threatened Alloy To Her Many Enjoyments.the Danger, However, Was At Present So Unperceived, That They Did Not By Any Means Rank As Misfortunes With Her.
Contos de Virgínia Woolf (Portuguese Edition)
Virginia Woolf • 1994
Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Charlotte Brontë • 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Pride and Prejudice: (Special Edition) (Jane Austen Collection)
Jane Austen • 2018
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The Collection included 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Mansfield Park', 'Emma', 'Northanger Abbey', 'Persuasion', and 'Lady Susan' - represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist, and provide the reader with an introduction to the world she and her memorable characters inhabited. Also added to this beautiful collection the readers can find the Letters of Jane Austen and a Memoir made by James Edward Austen-Leigh.
The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald • 2021
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby<br/>The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.<br/>A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel.<br/>Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterpiece and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.<br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2019
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.<br/><br/>Gregor Samsa lives an uneventful life. That is, until one morning he awakes to find himself transformed into a monstrous, verminous bug.<br/><br/>The celebrated work by Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis is a psychological study of Gregor’s family and the world around him as Gregor endures a new and painful existence of a vermin.
Letter to Father
Franz Kafka • 1999
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1995
'Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's ... was more striking' As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense, her readiness to observe social forms and Marianne's impulsive candor, her warm but excessive sensibility; it also highlights their shared predicament in the face of a competitive marriage market. The sisters' parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, causes both to readjust and question their own values. Jane Austen's satirical powers of observation and expression spare no one in this lively study of the constraints placed on gentry women in the eighteenth century. Ros Ballaster's introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition discusses Sense and Sensibility as domestic drama and as critique of the wider aesthetic, social and political concerns of Romanticism.
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2016
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
