Argus Rastro: 17 books

Cover of An Autobiography
by Annie Besant
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019

Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. She was born in 1847 in London into a middle-class family of Irish origin. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.
Cover of Lord Kitchener
by G.K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019

“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exceptionally a friend of Mahomedans.” (Summary quoted from Gilbert Keith Chesterton). G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), a prolific English writer, was master...
Cover of Amor y Pedagogia
by Miguel de Unamuno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2019

Amor y pedagogía es una novela de Miguel de Unamuno publicada en 1902 en Barcelona por un amigo del autor, Santiago Valentín Cam.​ Escrita cinco años después de su primera novela, Paz en la guerra, no volvería a publicar un libro en prosa hasta 1912, con su obra filosófica Del sentimiento...
Cover of Avatâras

Avatâras

(Illustrated)

by Annie Besant
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019

Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar Madras, December 1899. Annie Besant, née Wood (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933), was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.
Cover of Cuentos de Azul
by Rubén Darío
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2019

Cuentos de Azul son los cuentos extraídos de la obra Azul...,libro de cuentos y poemas del poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío, considerado una de las obras más relevantes del modernismo hispánico. Se publicó por primera vez en Valparaíso el 30 de julio de 1888. Dos años después, en Guatemala,...
Cover of A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

A Ghost Story of Christmas (Illustrated)

by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019

Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is...
Cover of O Coruja
by Aluísio Azevedo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 22, 2019

Publicado em 1887, a obra retrata a classe média oitocentista, e seus problemas como: o casamento, as finanças, a juventude, heranças, intrigas, etc. Ainda que relevante, o personagem que dá título ao romance, é figura secundária dentro do enredo. O protagonista é Teobaldo, André, O Coruja,...
Cover of O Mandarim
by Eça de Queirós
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 9, 2019

O Mandarim é uma novela do escritor português Eça de Queirós, escrito em Bristol, na Inglaterra, e publicado em Lisboa em 1880. É considerada mais como uma novela do que um romance, pois há só um personagem central e o enredo concentra-se num só ato.
Cover of La Tia Tula
by Miguel de Unamuno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2019

La tía Tula es una novela escrita por Unamuno en 1907, publicada en 1921. Esta novela fue incluida en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en español del siglo XX del periódico español El Mundo. Es una de las novelas más conocidas de Unamuno. Aunque comparte con otras novelas el estilo y las preocupaciones...
Cover of El doctor Centeno
by Benito Pérez Galdós
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 9, 2019

El doctor Centeno es una novela del escritor español Benito Pérez Galdós publicada en 1883.​ Es una de las que abren el ciclo de las "Novelas españolas contemporáneas", compartiendo personajes con las dos siguientes Tormento y La de Bringas, circunstancia que ha llevado a suponer...
Cover of Años de juventud del doctor Angélico
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2019

Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) fue un escritor y crítico literario español, perteneciente al realismo del siglo xix. Armando Palacio Valdés es un gran creador de tipos femeninos y es diestro en la pintura costumbrista; sabe también bosquejar personajes secundarios. Al contrario que otros...
Cover of Aguas Fuertes
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2019

Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) fue un escritor y crítico literario español, perteneciente al realismo del siglo xix. Es un gran creador de tipos femeninos y es diestro en la pintura costumbrista; sabe también bosquejar personajes secundarios. Al contrario que otros autores concede al humor...
Cover of Jeremy
by Hugh Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2019

From The Jeremy Trilogy, this book is a wonderful reminder of the magic of childhood, without being overly sentimental or saccharine. A pity Walpole had no children, I think he would have been a wonderful father. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941), a 20th-century English novelist, had a large...
Cover of Manifeste du parti communiste
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019

Le Manifeste du parti communiste (en allemand : Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) est un essai politico-philosophique commandé par la Ligue des communistes(ancienne Ligue des justes), et rédigé par le philosophe allemand Karl Marx. Écrit fin 1847 et début 1848 avec la participation...
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