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O Viajante Desinteressado Charles Dickens · 1776 · ★ 3.5 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Exigente A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches. Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, History

Contos Simples das Colinas Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Desafiador Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of… Temas em comum: British, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

O Rio Culpado Wilkie Collins · 1886 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Desafiador B..melodrama is perennial and the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied' T. S. Eliot ('Wilkie Collins and Dickens') Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here. All proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. The… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Sem Nome Wilkie Collins · 1862 · ★ 4.1 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Desafiador No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover that they were born before their parents were married. Their sudden illegitimacy robs them of their inheritance and their accustomed place in society. Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

A Loja de Antiguidades Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 792p · ≈ 26h · Exigente The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters—the eloquent… Temas em comum: Grandfathers, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

Nosso Velho Lar Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Desafiador Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Temas em comum: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs, History

Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Desafiador From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature, History

A Feira das Vaidades William Makepeace Thackeray · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 699p · ≈ 23h · Exigente No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought,… Temas em comum: British, British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs

O livro de apontamentos de Geoffrey Crayon, cavalheiro Washington Irving · 1819 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Desafiador The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving. It includes some of his most famous stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, and was one of the first works of American fiction to become popular in Britain and Europe. The tone of the stories varies widely, and they are held together by the powerful charm of their… Temas em comum: Description and travel, Travel, England, Social life and customs

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