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Brazilian Tales Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 – 1908), was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and advocate of monarchism. Widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, nevertheless he did not gain...

Hector-Henri Malot dit Hector Malot, (1830- 1907), est un romancier français. En famille – dont le titre fait écho à Sans famille publié en 1878 – est le cinquantième ouvrage d'une œuvre qui dénonce les conditions de travail, particulièrement...

«Il MASH, il Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, ovvero ospedale chirurgico da campo, era di stanza sul 38° parallelo in Corea. Erano i migliori chirurghi da campo dell’esercito, ma anche i più fuori di testa». Veniva lanciato così, nel 1968, questo romanzo scatenato e irriverente, che racconta...

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (1890 –1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author. She is best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman...

"The gestation process of the most spectacular technical and human drama in Chilean mining history lacked a book like this. Buried, as the 33 miners, were the detailed events of this amazing saga. A huge percentage of that story had to do with ignored geologists, drillers and mining technicians...

Roman Frederick Starzl (1899–1976) was an American author. Roman Frederick was the father of Thomas E. Starzl. He, and earlier, his father, owned the Le Mars Globe-Post newspaper of Le Mars, Iowa. Roman Frederick was also the father of Thomas E. Starzl. His writing is largely forgotten now, but...

Stephen McKenna (February 27, 1888-September 26, 1967) was an English novelist who wrote forty-seven novels, mostly focusing on English upper-class society, and six non-fiction titles. He published his first novel, The Reluctant Lover, in 1912. His best-known novel, Sonia: Between Two Worlds, was...

L’invenzione di Morel è il romanzo più celebre di Adolfo Bioy Casares, uno dei narratori più originali della letteratura latinoamericana del Novecento. Pubblicato nel 1940, esce oggi in una nuova traduzione di Francesca Lazzarato, che ne ha curato anche la postfazione. Fortemente ispirato all’Isola...

Marie è una ragazza poco più che ventenne che lavora come cameriera; ha cominciato in bistrot e catene per famiglie per approdare a uno dei più lussuosi locali di Dallas. Si è fatta strada per la sua scrupolosità ed efficienza in un mestiere logorante, ma nella vita privata è disordinata fino...

Una ragazza che non riesce a essere davvero felice per i successi della sorella; un figlio che d’improvviso fa i conti con la vecchiaia della madre; un nonno che vuole proteggere la nipotina da tutto e tutti, nei turbolenti anni Settanta argentini; un padre che fatica a comunicare con la figlia...

Paul Frederick Ernst (born between 1899 and 1902 - died between 1983 and 1985 was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street and Smith Publications under the house name Kenneth Robeson. In this ebook:...

¿Qué fue el Cordobazo? Para algunos, protesta obrera u obrero-estudiantil; para otros, rebelión popular o, incluso, intento de insurrección. ¿Predominaron las motivaciones económico-corporativas? ¿las políticas o las ideológicas? ¿Fue su motor la lucha económico-sindical o la lucha política...

Qui était René Lévesque ? Sa passion indéfectible pour le Québec, son indéniable charisme et sa simplicité apparente en ont fait un héros populaire, une figure historique, presque mythique. L'homme reste cependant mal connu, car il était fondamentalement un être distant, réservé, fuyant....

Modern education in Thailand started at the end of the nineteenth century under the impulse of King Chulalongkorn. Many scholars tracing back the evolution from traditional education to a modern education system emphasized the feeling of necessity that motivated this transformation. Wyatt (1969),...