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Os Pilares da Terra
The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Welsh author Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. Set in the 12th century, the novel covers the time between the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket, but focuses primarily on the Anarchy. The book traces the development of Gothic architecture out of the…
Temas em comum: Historical Fiction, History
O Poder e a Glória
One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either oblivion or redemption, travels through Mexico administering the rites of the church to the poor landless peasants, hunted by a remorseless police officer and always in fear of being…
Temas em comum: Catholics, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction, History
Decamerão
Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome, even exploit, fortune.
The Decameron comprises a group of stories united by a frame story. As the frame narrative…
Temas em comum: Middle Ages, Historia, History
O Rapto da Madeixa
A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.
Temas em comum: Catholics, Social life and customs
Barnaby Rudge
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts…
Temas em comum: Cathedrals, History
O Mistério de Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's…
Temas em comum: Cathedrals, Social life and customs
Memórias de uma Gueixa
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a…
Temas em comum: Historia, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction, History
Martín Fierro
El Gaucho Martín Fierro es un poema narrativo, escrito en verso por José Hernández en 1872, obra literaria considerada ejemplar del género gauchesco. Tiene además una continuación, La vuelta de Martín Fierro, escrita en 1879, este último libro también es conocido como «La vuelta» y la primera parte, como «La ida». "La ida" ha sido seleccionado como libro nacional de Argentina, bajo el título…
Temas em comum: Historia, Social life and customs
Por Quem os Sinos Dobram
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.
Temas em comum: Historia, Historical Fiction, History