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The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but, most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded...
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A New York Times bestseller by the author of Sophie’s Choice: Two Americans search for the truth about a mysterious long-ago murder in Italy.
Shortly after World War II, in the village of Sambuco, Italy, two men—Virginia attorney Peter Leverett and South Carolina artist Cass Kinsolving—crossed paths with Mason Flagg. They both had their own reactions to the gregarious and charismatic movie...
Shortly after World War II, in the village of Sambuco, Italy, two men—Virginia attorney Peter Leverett and South Carolina artist Cass Kinsolving—crossed paths with Mason Flagg. They both had their own reactions to the gregarious and charismatic movie...
3) Jane Eyre
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"Una de las grandes novelas de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra de la literatura victoriana. Jane Eyre es una novela clásica de amor, precursora
del feminismo y la psicología moderna, sobre una huérfana que enfrenta su destino mani - festo gracias a su inteligencia e integridad inquebrantables. Controvertida y revolucionaria en el momento de su publicación, Jane Eyre es, al mismo tiempo, una crítica punzante a una sociedad rancia y un himno...
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Oranges and Lemons is a captivating novel by Mary C.E. Wemyss that intricately weaves together the lives of two families, the Richards and the Westons, against the backdrop of early 20th-century England. Set amidst the lush countryside and the bustling streets of London, the story unfolds with a blend of romance, mystery, and the complexities of human relationships. (Amazon)
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En Cuentos de muerte y de sangre. Seguidos de aventuras grotescas y una trilogía cristiana Ricardo Güiraldes reúne relatos descarnados, de una intensidad que se anticipa a los mejores textos de la novela negra americana.
Aunque este título recuerde a uno de los clásicos de la narrativa breve latinoamericana, Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917) del uruguayo Horacio Quiroga, el libro del argentino no corrió con la misma suerte.
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'Cab & Caboose' is a journey through the young life of one Rodman Ray Blake, railroad dreamer. Written in a style akin to 'Huckleberry Finn', it follows Rodman's meteoric rise through the ranks of railroad men. It is a tale full of adventures, derring-do, heroism, and passion for the railroad's mystique that must have evoked a genuine thrill in the hearts and minds of the young men and women who first read its pages more than a century ago. The numerous...
7) O Jogador
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Ambientado na Alemanha, «O Jogador» tem como protagonista Alexei Ivanovitch, um jovem com um forte sentido crítico em relação ao mundo que o rodeia, mas carente de objetivos, que desenvolve uma paixão compulsiva pelo jogo (vício que acometeu o próprio escritor).
Dostoiévski expõe as personagens nas suas motivações mais íntimas, com humor e ironia, criando uma obra simultaneamente viva e profunda.
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The Hermit's Cave or, Theodore and Jack is a classic children's book written by Eleanora H. Stooke and illustrated by Richard Tod. The story follows two young boys, Theodore and Jack, as they discover a hidden cave and befriend a mysterious hermit who lives there. As they explore the cave and its secrets, the boys learn valuable lessons about friendship, courage, and kindness. (Goodreads)
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Excerpt: "In order to ease my conscience and, further, to disclose certain facts which for the past year or two have, I know, greatly puzzled readers of our daily newspapers, I have decided to here reveal some very curious and, perhaps, sensational circumstances. In fact, after much perplexity and long consideration, I have resolved, without seeking grace or favor, to make a clean breast of all that happened to me, and to leave the reader to judge...
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"A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle", first published in 1926, is considered by many to be the greatest work of 20th century Scottish literature. The poem, which is both fascinating and intriguing, expresses Hugh MacDiarmid's views on just about everything, including the future of Scotland and of mankind.
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Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Beers' own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental institutions at one time or another. Beers, who wrote the book after his own confinement, gained the support of the medical profession and was a leader in the mental hygiene movement....
12) Tunes of Glory
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Introduced by Allan Massie.
Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldiers soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of...
13) Martin Eden
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Martin Eden ist die Geschichte eines ungebildeten, ungehobelten, jedoch weltklugen jungen Mannes, der sich heroisch um die Zuneigung eines Mädchens aus der gehobenen Schicht bemüht. Martin Eden glaubt, einzig durch das Erlangen von Bildung und Respekt würdig für die Liebe der jungen Ruth Morse zu sein. Er kann sich aber keine Schule und keinen Lehrer leisten und beschließt somit, sich selbst autodidaktisch zu unterrichten. Auf diesem Weg offenbaren...
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This book is expository of actual findings of the state of affairs near Eastern Europe from the Balkan Peninsula through Germany. William Le Queux in this book discussed hidden secrets, discoveries, and revelations in the 19th through 20th century. Discover some of the unknown secrecy that lies within the glorious continent of Europe.
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Excerpt: "Oh, Jo, such news! I don't know whether I'm pleased or not; but I do hope it will be for the best!" And so saying, the speaker, Mrs. Dennis, laid down the letter she had been reading and glanced at her husband, with a smile upon her lips and tears in her eyes. It was half-past eight on a fine September morning, and the Dennis family-comprised of Dr. Dennis, his wife, and three children, Edwin and Claude, aged eleven and nine respectively,...
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A Victorian lawyer's view of a fictional case from the The Pickwick Papers shows how Dickens' wit, combined with a detailed knowledge of the law, produced one of the funniest court cases in fiction When Samuel Pickwick uttered soothing words to Mrs. Bardell in her time of need, he never dreamed that he would find himself in a court of law, in a breach of promise suit. As a parade of his friends did their best as witnesses to help him out of a hole,...
18) The Highflyers
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Excerpt: "Fred la Mothe was speaking. After a certain number of beverages composed of Scotch whisky, imported soda, and a cube of ice, it was a matter of comparative ease for him to exhibit a notable fluency. After two o'clock in the afternoon Fred was generally fluent. "''Tain't safe,' I says to him. And the wind was blowin' enough to lift the hair out of your head. 'I wouldn't go up in the thing for the price of it,' I says, 'and, besides, you're...
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Entre los muchos europeos que viajaron a la Argentina figuró el periodista francés Aquiles Sioen. Afincado en el Río de la Plata, escribió en 1879 Buenos Aires en el año 2080, un interesante librito de ciencia ficción donde explicaba cómo sería la capital argentina en el futuro.
La novela se desarrolla, principalmente, en un imaginado Buenos Aires de 2080. También en algunas regiones de la Patagonia con lo cual no podríamos siquiera imaginar...
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Excerpt: "You will recollect our first meeting on that sunny afternoon when, in the stuffy, nauseating atmosphere of perspiration and a hundred Parisian perfumes, we sat next each other at the first roulette table on the right as you enter the rooms at Monte Carlo? Ah! how vivid it is still before my eyes, the jingle of gold and the monotonous cries of the croupiers. Ah! my dear friend! In those pre-war days the Riviera-that sea-lapped Paradise, with...
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