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Um Cântico de Natal: A Christmas Carol

Autor: Charles Dickens

Número de Páginas: 144

Um Cântico de Natal tem como protagonista Ebenezer Scrooge, um pão-duro, proprietário de uma casa de contabilidade e empregador do pobre Bob Cratchit, seu escriturário. Scrooge evita fazer quaisquer gastos, tanto que no inverno, à época do Natal, o escritório é aquecido apenas por uma pequena lareira. Para Scrooge, isso não é um problema, uma vez que a sua frieza interior é constante, e o conforto de outras pessoas para ele não é importante. Na véspera de Natal, Scrooge, sozinho e renegando qualquer companhia, recebe a visita do espírito de seu sócio, Jacob Marley, que lhe confidencia que um destino igual ao dele estará reservado a Scrooge, se o mesmo não se redimir de seu comportamento. Para tal, três fantasmas virão lhe visitar e trarão a oportunidade para que ele reflita sobre sua condição e através da mudança de hábitos limpar sua consciência.

Mulherzinhas

Autor: Louisa May Alcott

Número de Páginas: 336

Fortælling fra Nordamerika i 1800-tallet, hvor fire søstre i alderen 12-16 er alene med deres mor, mens faderen er ved fronten i den amerikanske borgerkrig

Boletim da Sociedade de geographia de Lisboa

Autor: Sociedade De Geografia De Lisboa

Número de Páginas: 760

List of members in early volumes.

Elvis Presley Nos Anos 70

Autor: George Batista Da Silva

Número de Páginas: 92

Uma seleção das 80 letras de canções gravadas por Elvis nos anos 70.

Empedocles, the Extant Fragments

Autor: Empedocles

Número de Páginas: 378

One of the most important Presocratic philosophers was the Sicilian Empedocles. He presented his work in the form of two hexameter poems, of which about 450 lines are extant, revealing a formidable range of interests, acute observation, and a firm grasp of fundamental issues in the study of man and nature. Empedocles' theory of four elements was crucial to later developments in science and medicine. He showed how forces of attraction and repulsion acted on the elements within a framework of cyclical time and limited space, and initiated or advanced major discoveries in astronomy, biology, and physiology. More sophisticated concepts of divinity, personality, and mortality replaced traditional mythology, and these concepts were founded on the conviction that the individual has control over his own character and intellectual growth. The introduction discusses Empedocles' life and interests, the content of the Physics and Katharmoi, and the relation of the two poems to each other. A new Greek text with apparatus is followed by translation, commentary, and detailed concordance, to give a comprehensive edition of this key figure in the history of ideas. "With its careful and judicious...

Olinda, Património Natural E Cultural Da Humanidade

Autor: Edvaldo Arlégo

Número de Páginas: 188

Nine, Novena

Autor: Osman Lins

Número de Páginas: 292

Nine, Novena is a collection of nine stories, work that represents the turning point in Lins's career. The recurring themes of these stories - entrapment and search for the self, art versus life, and the mythic aspects of existence - are presented against the background of rural and urban life in northeast Brazil. The stylistic devices of the accessible tales (frequent shifts of tense, long sentences full of parenthetical clauses, heavy punctuation and inversions, and use of graphic symbols to suggest shifts in narrative perspective) all contribute to the multiplicity of meaning and significance of these very human stories.

Vozes Da América

Autor: George Batista Da Silva

Número de Páginas: 136

Informações básicas sobre os melhores cantores e cantoras da música popular dos Estados Unidos.

200 Letras De Elvis

Autor: George Batista Da Silva

Número de Páginas: 207

Uma seleção das 200 melhores canções gravadas por Elvis, segundo a opinião do autor.

Filmografias Históricas

Autor: George Batista Da Silva

Número de Páginas: 163

Filmografias completas de atrizes em atividade no cinema americano e europeu.

Edson

Autor: Bill Morrissey

Número de Páginas: 262

The setting is a New England mill town where people come of age with dreams of leaving, or end up returning when their dreams run out. The novel is on a musician, Henry Corvine, a man who belongs to the latter category. A first novel by a musician.

MUDe

Autor: John Redmond

Número de Páginas: 68

John Redmond's follow-up to his first collection, 'Thumb's Width', 'MUDe' (from 'Multi-User Dimension', a type of online virtual world) is a collection of poems that reflects online fantasy role-playing games such as 'World of Warcraft'.

Cozinha do Brasil

Autor: Zaida Siqueira

Número de Páginas: 188

Lúcio's Confession

Autor: Mário De Sá-carneiro

Número de Páginas: 134

When in 1916, Mario de Sa-Carneiro committed suicide in Paris at the age of 26, he left behind him an extraordinary body of work, which dealt obsessively with the problems of identity, madness and solitude. Lucio's Confession is the first of his novels to be translated into English. A brilliant and remarkable short novel of great eroticism and enigmatic beauty Lucio's Confession is set in the fin de siecle artist circles of Paris and Lisbon. It deals with the friendship of two young Portuguese poets, Lucio and Ricardo de Loureiro, and their search for identity through love. When the bachelor Ricardo returns to Lisbon, to everyone's surprise he is accompanied by a wife. She, Marta, seems the perfect partner, and establishes an immediate rapport with his close friend Lucio on the latter's return from Paris. Soon they become lovers. Despite the passionate nature of their relationship, Lucio suspects that Marta is sharing her favours with Ricardo's other close friends. Something is not quite right. Where did this mysterious woman meet Ricardo, and, indeed who is she? Why does she never speak of her past and why is Ricardo conniving at her infidelity? Lucio's attempts to unravel this...

A Familia Multi-Culti

Autor: Cristina Afonso Goldman

Número de Páginas: 54

English version below. ---- Era uma vez uma familia onde todos tinham nascido em paises diferentes. Eles adoravam-se uns aos outros, mas tinham um grande problema: nao falavam a mesma lingua. Por isso na casa deles reinava uma grande confusao. Felizmente so havia um vizinho que vivia numa casa, a umas centenas de metros no meio da floresta e que porventura poderia sentir-se incomodado com tanto tumulto. Como a familia multi-culti nunca o tinha visto, chamavam-no "o vizinho misterioso." Nao sabiam eles que um dia esse mesmo vizinho ia mudar a vida deles totalmente, atraves de uma aventura extraordinaria com o Pai Natal. ---- Once upon a time, there was a family where all members were born in different countries. They loved each other very much, but they had a huge problem: they did not speak the same language. Thus great confusion reigned in their house. Fortunately there was only one neighbor who lived in a house a small distance into the woods and who could perhaps have felt uncomfortable with so much turmoil. Since the multi-culti family had never seen him, they called him " the mysterious neighbor." They did not know that one day that same neighbor would change their lives...

Fado

Autor: Susan Lund

Número de Páginas: 210

Bob, an average Joe of about 30, is standing as god-father to his friend, Geoff's, child. Women joke, 'He'll be next!' but Bob is happy enough as a bachelor until he meets Beata, a beautiful Irish colleen. Beata is married to Bob's colleague, Stirling, a wealthy man, twice her age. The games-playing by which their marriage catches fire traps Bob into an unfulfilling, platonic relationship with Beata. Things come to a head at a party put on by Geoff, where Bob is left moaning in sexual frustration in front of a roomful of office colleagues.Bob goes as an aid-worker to Angola 'because he's heard of it' - the place where Diana did her walk against land-mines. Despite its great wealth in oil and diamonds, corruption surrounding the long civil war makes this 'the worst place in the world to be a child.' Bob joins a bush-hospital, where he becomes attached to Mine-da, a toddler whose foot has been hacked off with a machete 'so that he won't fight for the other side.' Beata sends a Fortnum's hamper at Christmas. Bob becomes a surrogate father to Mine-da. A Portuguese nurse, Marie-Elisabeth, falls in love with him. She sings Fado to him - the Portuguese fate-song. She becomes pregnant....

A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals

Autor: Claire Grace

Número de Páginas: 130

Countless different festivals are celebrated all over the world throughout the year. Some are national holidays, celebrated for religious and cultural reasons, or to mark an important date in history, while others are just for fun. Give thanks and tuck into a delicious meal with friends and family at Thanksgiving, get caught up in a messy tomato fight in Spain at La Tomatina, add a splash of color to your day at the Holi festival of colors and celebrate the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. With fact-filled text accompanied by beautifully bright illustrations from the wonderfully talented Chris Corr, prepare yourself for a journey as we travel around the world celebrating and uncovering a visual feast of culture.

Sem saída

Autor: Cara Hunter

Número de Páginas: 0

It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. ONe kid under 3 years old is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his phone? Then new evidence is discovered, and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true. Because this fire wasn't an accident. It was murder. And the killer is still out there..." --

Poor Richard's Almanack

Autor: Benjamin Franklin , Peter Pauper Press

Número de Páginas: 90

The almanacks for years 1733 - 1758, classic of American letters, American folk wisdom, here is comprehensive collection of texts of all editions.