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Cover of La familia de León Roch
by Benito Pérez Galdós
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019

La familia de León Roch es una novela de Benito Pérez Galdós escrita en 1878.​ Clasificada dentro del grupo de sus «novelas de tesis», fue la última publicada de ese ciclo, tras Doña Perfecta (1876), Gloria (1876-77) y Marianela (1878). Obra de transición, publicada en tres partes, relata...
Cover of A Captured Santa Claus
by Thomas Nelson Page
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019

Holly Hill was a place for Christmas! Holly Hill, the old rambling Stratford homestead in Virginia, on its high hill, looking down the long slope and across the wide fields to the far woods rimming the sky. From Bob, the veteran, within a month of his teens, down to brown-eyed Evelyn, with her golden...
Cover of Le juif errant est arrivé
by Albert Londres
Language: French
Release Date: August 2, 2019

Le juif errant est arrivé » est un récit composé de vingt-sept articles écrits par Albert Londres en 1929 et publiés en 1930. Cette fois-ci, le célèbre reporter part enquêter sur la situation des juifs dans le monde. Albert Londres, né le 1er novembre 1884 à Vichy et mort le 16 mai 1932...
Cover of A Virtude Laureada
by Bocage
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 27, 2019

Manuel Maria de Barbosa l'Hedois du Bocage (Setúbal, 15 de setembro de 1765 – Lisboa, Mercês, 21 de dezembro de 1805) foi um poeta nacional português e, possivelmente, o maior representante do arcadismo lusitano. Embora ícone deste movimento literário, é uma figura inserida num período de...
Cover of Lendas e Narrativas
by Alexandre Herculano
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 22, 2019

As Lendas e Narrativas de Alexandre Herculano foram publicadas em doisvolumes, em 1851. Trata-se de uma coletânea de textos de carácterdiversificado, publicados entre 1839 e 1844 nas revistas O Panorama e AIlustração. No prefácio, Herculano considera as pequenas narrativas"monumentos dos...
Cover of O Bobo
by Alexandre Herculano
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 22, 2019

Romance histórico inicialmente publicado na revista O Panorama, em 1843,refundido e ampliado na edição póstuma em volume, de 1878. Naintrodução, Herculano sustenta que "o mister de recordar o passado é umaespécie de magistratura moral" e formula o desejo de que "o drama, o poema,...
Cover of Uma Família Inglesa
by Júlio Dinis
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 25, 2019

Uma Família Inglesa é o primeiro romance do escritor português Júlio Dinis, publicado em 1868. Carlos, o filho de um comerciante inglês do Porto (Mr. Richard Whitestone) e Cecília, a filha do guarda-livros do escritório Whitestone, encontram-se num baile de carnaval. Sem saber de quem...
Cover of Eurico, o Presbítero
by Alexandre Herculano
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 22, 2019

Eurico, o Presbítero é um romance histórico de Alexandre Herculano datado de 1844. Fala a respeito do fim do reino visigodo formado na região que atualmente compreende Espanha e Portugal, diante da invasão dos muçulmanos, que avançaram pela maior parte da Península Ibérica no século VIII.
Cover of Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse
by Wilhelm Raabe
Language: German
Release Date: July 6, 2019

Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (1856) ist ein Roman von Wilhelm Raabe. Raabe beginnt mit dem Werk am 15. November 1854 und vollendet es um den 10. August 1855. Zu dieser Zeit wohnt er im Zentrum Berlins in der damaligen Spreestraße, von wo aus er den Roman auch verfasst und die der heute nicht mehr...
Cover of The Three Cities: Lourdes, Rome and Paris
by Émile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2019

The Three Cities is a novel cycle written by Emile Zola between 1893 and 1898. It directly follows the previous cycle of novelist Les Rougon-Macquart. His hero, Abbe Pierre Froment, the common thread to all three novels, Lourdes, Rome and Paris, where Zola asked about the place of religion in modern...
Cover of The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
by Alice Dunbar Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875 – 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was...
Cover of Algo de todo
by Juan Valera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2019

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824 - 1905) fue un escritor, diplomático y político español, autor de obras célebres como Pepita Jiménez. Se inició como teórico literario con Ensayos literarios (1844), libro que fue destruido casi en su totalidad, y con críticas y recensiones en diversos diarios...
Cover of A young man in a Hurry and other stories
by Robert W. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019

A Young Man in a Hurry is a collection of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers. A collection of light romantic tales in which Chambers' love of fishing and hunting and natural scenery prevails. The stories are set in America. The title story is a comedy of coincidence which has an atmospheric...
Cover of The Dream
by Émile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019

The Dream is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It is about an orphan girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and is set in the years 1860–69. The Dream is a simple tale of the orphan Angélique Marie, adopted by a couple of embroiderers, the Huberts, whose marriage...
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