"Capitães da Areia" é um romance de autoria do escritor brasileiro Jorge Amado, publicado em 1937. O livro retrata a vida de um grupo de menores abandonados, chamados de "Capitães da Areia", ambientado na cidade de Salvador dos anos...
Un honnête garçon qui sert comme brigadier dans un régiment de dragons à Séville tombe amoureux de la gitane Carmen. Celle-ci lui ayant préféré un certain Lucas, rencontré lors d'un combat de taureau, il...
Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose "Embers" became an international bestseller — a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that...
Cat and Mouse was the book Günter Grass wrote immediately after The Tin Drum, and it shares its setting with that earlier novel: Danzig during World War II. But while The Tin Drum achieves its extraordinary cumulative effect through the...
Écrit en 1803, Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey) est le premier roman de Jane Austen, même s'il n'a été publié qu'en 1818, un an après sa mort.
La jeune et naïve Catherine Morland est invitée par des...
It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five...
Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: “The Sealed Room” focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; “The Cage” brings together a case of characters already familiar to Nin’s...