Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories.  In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.  This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here - including "The Cut-Glass Bowl" in which an ill-meant gift haunts a family's misfortunes, "The Four Fists" where a man's life shaped by a series of punches to his face, and the revelry, mobs and anguish of "May Day" - F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.Also included:Head and Shoulders"O Russet Witch!"Crazy Sunday

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.

Trata-se de uma alegoria dramática: duas são as barcas em que os personagens podem subir - a do Inferno, munida do Diabo; e a da Glória, encabeçada pelo Anjo. Em cena, é realizado o auto do julgamento das almas, e a maior parte delas segue na primeira barca. Entre os "réus", um agiota, um sapateiro rico, um tolo, uma alcoviteira, um usurário, quatro cavaleiros e um frade corrupto, além de outros representantes da humanidade. Muito mais do que uma sátira da sociedade lisboeta em princípios do século 16, mais do que uma farsa ou um auto de moralidade (embora também o seja), "Auto da Barca do Inferno" é um bem-humorado arrazoado dos vícios que corroem o mundo e uma crítica – infelizmente ainda válida – à organização da sociedade dos homens.Gil Vicente é considerado o primeiro dramaturgo da língua portuguesa.reimpressão, 2009

A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory—a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.

When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage ... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but also for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.(back cover)

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.(back cover)

The Dan Brown Inferno Unofficial Guide will allow you to decode the masterful and clever codes, symbols and art history of Dan Brown's fourth international blockbuster, Inferno and follow in the footsteps of the great puzzle solver Robert Langdon. Dan Brown's new international blockbuster, Inferno, will be his fourth book fusing history, art, codes and symbols. This guide includes:A Complete Summary of Dante's Inferno on which Dan Brown has based his newest bestselling novelA Complete Guide to the Many Levels of Hell in Dante's Inferno A Complete List of Characters and People that appear in Dante's Inferno and their origins in Biblical and Classical mythologyTranslation of the important Latin phrases contained in Dante's Inferno

Mariana, filha única, tem dez anos quando Rosa nasce. Agora vai partilhar tudo com a irmã: o quarto, o tempo dos pais, o afecto da família - incluindo a Avó Elisa que desconfia do progresso, e a Tia Magda, que tem um dente de ouro, uma fala que mete medo e só gosta de estrelícias e antúrios. Mas pelo menos a recordação da Avó Lídia e a amizade de Rita ela não quer dividir com mais ninguém. Será que Rosa vai continuar a ser «uma intrusa»?

Quando me sinto desiludida com um autor bastante conhecido, não tenho problemas em ler outras opiniões super positivas sabendo que sou a exceção. Mas, vá lá, estamos a falar de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen! Um orgulho para a literatura portuguesa! Que nunca me conseguiu arrebatar ou fazer com que sentisse a mínima curiosidade para ler outras das suas obras. Talvez "A Fada Oriana" seja aquele que mais prende a minha atenção, mas não o suficiente. Sou a única pessoa à face da Terra que não consegue adorar esta tão conhecida autora infantojuvenil. Pura e simplesmente, não me cativa o suficiente e já é assim desde o primeiro ciclo de escolaridade.

O Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes foi proferido na cidade de São Luís do Maranhão em 1654, na sequência de uma disputa com os colonos portugueses no Brasil.  O Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes constitui um documento da surpreendente imaginação, habilidade oratória e poder satírico do Padre António Vieira, que toma vários peixes (o roncador, o pegador, o voador e o polvo) como símbolos dos vícios daqueles colonos.  Com uma construção literária e argumentativa notável, o sermão pretende louvar algumas virtudes humanas e, principalmente, censurar com severidade os vícios dos colonos. Este sermão (alegórico) foi pregado três dias antes de Padre António Vieira embarcar ocultamente (a furto) para Portugal.  Todo o sermão é uma alegoria, porque os peixes são uma metáfora dos homens.

ura e o genio de seu bisavo Paulo Botelho Correia, o mais valente fidalgo que dera Traz-os-Montes. Manoel, cada vez mais aterrado das arremettidas de Simao, sae de Coimbra antes de ferias, e vai a Vizeu queixar-se, e pedir que lhe de seu pae outro destino. D. Rita quer que seu filho seja cadete de cavallaria. De Vizeu parte para Braganca Manoel Botelho, e justifica-se nobre dos quatro costados para ser cadete. No entanto Simao recolhe a Vizeu com os seus exames feitos e approvados. O pae maravilha-se do talento do filho, e desculpa-o da extravagancia por amor do talento. Pede-lhe explicacoes do seu mau viver com Manoel, e elle responde que seu irmao o quer forcar a viver monasticamente. Os quinze annos de Simao tem apparencias de vinte. E forte de compleicao; bello homem com as feicoes de sua mae, e a corpolencia d'ella; mas de todo avesso em genio. Na plebe de Vizeu e que elle escolhe amigos e companheiros. Se D. Rita lhe censura a indigna eleicao que faz, Simao zomba das genealogias, e mormente do

Carlos is the grandson of Afonso da Maia, the last surviving member of one of Lisbon’s wealthiest and most illustrious families. Carlos is good, handsome, clever, eager to contribute something to society, and yet he appears, as he himself puts it, 'to be one of those weak hearts, soft and flaccid, incapable of preserving any true emotion'. Then, one day, walking along Lisbon's grubby streets he sees a woman who seems to him like a goddess who has just stepped down from the clouds. When he finally meets the beautiful Maria Eduarda, the attraction proves to be as mutual as it is profound. In the plenitude of that love, Carlos seems, in his best friend Ega's words, 'a truly fortunate being', until Fate steps in - in the form of a grizzled, left-wing newspaper hack from Paris - and everything unravels.

Um bom livro para perceber o sentimento e a escrita Saramaguiana. A maneira envolvente de como relata a história de Baltasar, o sete-sóis, e Blimunda, a sete-luas é simplesmente incrível. Vale a pena ler toda a obra literária deste autor/escritor.A great book to understand the feeling and the way how Saramago writes. Is amazing how José Saramago tell the story of two lovers - Baltasar, the seven-suns, and Blimunda, the seven-moons. It worth read the entire literary collection of this author/writter. 

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