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Cover of A Queda de um Anjo
by Camilo Castelo Branco
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 20, 2017

A Queda dum Anjo é o título de um romance satírico de Camilo Castelo Branco, escrito em 1865. Nele o autor descreve a corrupção de Calisto Elói de Silos e Benevides de Barbuda, morgado da Agra de Freimas, um fidalgo transmontano camiliano e o anjo do título, quando se desloca da província...
Cover of Les coups d'épée de Monsieur de la Guerche
by Amédée Achard
Language: French
Release Date: March 18, 2019

Vers l’an de grâce 16..., il n’était pas, dans l’ancienne province de la Marche, d’ennemis plus irréconciliables, ni d’amis plus intimes, que le jeune huguenot Armand-Louis de la Guerche, et son voisin, le catholique Renaud de Chaufontaine. Lorsque, après la prise de La Rochelle par...
Cover of Envers et contre tous
by Amédée Achard
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2019

La suite du roman Les coups d’épée de Monsieur de La Guerche.
Cover of La maison du Chat-qui-pelote
by Honoré de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Ce récit écrit en 1829 sera placé, plus tard, par Balzac en ouverture de La Comédie humaine ». On y retrouve la trame de ce que seront les romans la composant et l’on y croise déjà les héros d’autres épisodes. Tout y préfigure la grande œuvre de Balzac. C’est en ces quelques pages...
Cover of A Metamorfose
by Franz Kafka
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 8, 2017

A Metamorfose (Die Verwandlung em alemão) é uma novela escrita por Franz Kafka, publicada pela primeira vez em 1915. Veio a ser o texto mais conhecido, estudado e citado da obra de Kafka. Apesar de ter sido publicada em 1915, foi escrita em novembro de 1912 e concluída em vinte dias. Em 7 de dezembro...
Cover of The Whiteoak Brothers
by Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018

In The Whiteoak Brothers, the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining...
Cover of Jalna
by Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018

The international bestselling story of the Whiteoaks, the unforgettable southern Ontario family who live in a red-brick house called Jalna.
Cover of Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019

The collection of short stories featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Set in revolutionary France in 1793, these further adventures will thrill the first time reader as much as those who are familiar with the Pimpernel and the League. Their arch enemy Chauvelin and the Committee of...
Cover of A Child of the Revolution
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019

During one return home, Sir Percy tells the story of André Vallon, a young Jacobin, to the Prince of Wales. André, wishing to revenge himself on a despotic seigneur, uses the Jacobins’ rise to force the seigneur’s daughter to marry him. Once wed, they come to love each other, only to have the...
Cover of La Brière
by Alphonse de Châteaubriant
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2019

Alphonse de Châteaubriant obtient en 1911 le prix Goncourt pour son roman Monsieur des Lourdines. En 1923, il reçoit une nouvelle récompense, le grand prix de l’Académie française, pour La Brière. Pour éviter la nationalisation des étangs de Brière, il faut retrouver des lettres patentes...
Cover of Les récits d’Adrien Zograffi
by Panaït Istrati
Language: French
Release Date: May 8, 2019

Avec ce volume, commence l’épopée d’Adrien Zograffi et des membres de sa famille, génération d’Haïdoucs, ces bandits d’honneur qui luttèrent au siècle dernier en Roumanie pour défendre les opprimés et les pauvres, épris de liberté, de justice et d’amour. Istrati dans un style...
Cover of La jeunesse d’Adrien Zograffi
by Panaït Istrati
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2019

L’enfance et la jeunesse d’Adrien Zograffi se situent dans une misérable banlieue du port de Braïla, sur les bords du Danube. Adrien devient le protégé de Codine, le bon géant. Puis il se fait vagabond et, pendant huit ans, a Mikhaïl pour inséparable compagnon. A Alexandrie, Le pêcheur...
Cover of The Shanty Sled
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019

A young woman decides to travel from New York to north-western Canada to see her mother, who had sent her to New York twenty years before. She falls in love with a local trapper, then an evil fur trader tries to interfere.
Cover of Clementina
by A. E. W. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019

A fictionalized story of the rescue of Maria Clementina Sobieska from imprisonment so that she could wed James Francis Edward Stuart, also known as Prince James, Prince of Wales (also known as The Old Pretender or The Old Chevalier).
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