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Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias
by Manuel Anto?nio de Almeida
A novel of manners written at the height of Brazil’s romantic period, Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias broke the customs of the genre, with characters doing both good and bad. Leonardo, an extremely likeable loafer and ne’er-do-well, is drafted into the local militia after an affair with a mulatto woman goes wrong. But when Leonardo gets in trouble with the Major of the militia, the women in his life convince... (more)
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Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis
A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Capitu, who overcome their parents' reluctance to marry. But Bento jealously suspects that their son is not his. But beyond this straightforward plot, Machado plays with the reader's expectations and comments on the structure of the story, blurring the line between fiction and reality and appearing very modern.
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El Lugar Sin Limites (Paperback)
by José Donoso
New Edition In this book, José Donoso unveils the false appearances, sordidness, violence and misery that give life to a sub world. The story takes place in a brothel owned by “la Japonesita” (the little Japanese girl) and revolves around the character of Manuela, an ambiguous yet brilliant character, a melting pot of passions who serves to reveal a dual morality and to question masculinity and its values. ... (more)
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
Bruno is a normal 9 year old boy who lives in Berlin with his parents and his sister, Gretel. Bruno lives in a wondrous 5 level house and likes his home, but he soon finds out he will be leaving soon. His father was a soldier and due to current position, they had to move to a new house one that is big, and only has 3 levels, and Gretel says its name is out-with. Bruno's father was a large powerful man. He even had... (more)
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El Nido De La Serpiente: Memorias Del Hijo Del Heladero
by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Esta novela es un prologo imprescindible para los lectores del ya clasico Trilogia sucia de La Habana, que recibio tantos y tan merecidos elogios. Pedro Juan, un alter ego del autor, tiene aqui entre 15 y 21 anos, y vive en Matanzas, una ciudad portuaria cerca de La Habana, en los anos 60. Es un joven impetuoso, insolente y quizas un poco alocado, que atraviesa esta novela a la velocidad de un torpedo. Decenas de... (more)
Trilogia Suja de Havana
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Trilogia Suja de Havana
by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
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Animal Tropical
by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
El libro contiene varias historias coincidentes, pero en esencia es la historia de un hombre atormentado. Pedro Juan, el personaje mÃtico de la Trilogia sucia de La Habana, quien ahora tiene 50 aÃ±os y pretende escribir una novela. Tiene amores con dos mujeres bien diferentes. Una sueca de cuarenta aÃ±os, y una picara de Centro Habana, mulata de treinta aÃ±os, con gran experiencia de la vida y una filosofia... (more)
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La Regenta (The Regent)
by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"
With its frank sexuality and searing critique of the Church, La Regenta scandalized contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885. Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. When she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even ... (more)
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина; Russian pronunciation: <ˈanə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə>) (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in... (more)
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details, shine on every page of this... (more)
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Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Two irresistibly intimate masterworks by one of Russia’s greatest writers Published here in a marvelous new translation, Resurrection tells the story of a Russian nobleman who comes face to face with the sins of his past. When Prince Nekhlyudov serves on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, he is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once seduced and abandoned. His guilt... (more)
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, and is considered to be one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.The novella tells the story of the life and death, at the age of 45, of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia—a miserable husband, proud... (more)
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Doctor Brodie's Report
by Jorge Luis Borges
This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report".
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Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
by Machado de Assis
"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The... (more)
Contos Completos de Machado de AssisMachado de Assis
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Contos Completos de Machado de Assis
by Djalma Cavalcante
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2666
by Roberto Bolaño
Se diría que es la figura de Von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán, el hilo secreto que cosería entre sí las cinco «partes» de que se compone 2666, sin duda la obra maestra de Roberto Bolaño. Una fecha en cuya perspectiva tan remota debe ordenarse la impresionante maraña de destinos, de personajes, de líneas argumentales y genéricas, una vastísima constelación marcada por el signo de la pérdida y del... (more)
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The City and the Mountains
by Eça de Queirós
Eça de Queirós's late novel is a hymn to country life: The City and The Mountains satirizes the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself. Wonderfully funny, it bubbles with joie de vivre. Born in Paris, Jacinto is the heir to a vast estate in Portugal which he has never visited. He mixes with the crème de la crème of Paris society, but is monumentally bored. And then he receives a letter from his estate... (more)
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ») is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is considered one of the most celebrated works of fiction. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other famous work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to... (more)
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Stanislávski e o Teatro de Arte de Moscou
by Jaco Guinsburg