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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

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

Pelham Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1828 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Desafiador This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true… 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, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

O Guardião Anthony Trollope · 1809 · ★ 3.9 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Desafiador The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 1: The Warden The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter's suitor Dr John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

A Casa Assombrada Charles Dickens · 1859 · ★ 3.1 The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal? Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, English literature

Contos de Terror e Mistério Arthur Conan Doyle · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderado From the book:The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imagi-native of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, English literature, Classic Literature

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 and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, History

Os Anos Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Desafiador A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's The Years is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons and… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs, History

A Paróquia de Framley Anthony Trollope · 1861 · ★ 4.4 · 540p · ≈ 18h · Desafiador The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative… Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

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