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O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of...

Rubén Darío (1866-1916), que en realidad se llamaba Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, nació y murió en su patria, Nicaragua, pero vivió en diferentes países de América y Europa, donde se hizo famoso por su literatura y llegó a ser llamado "príncipe de las letras castellanas". Poeta...

No hace falta apenas justificar la presencia de un texto como "Azul…" en una colección de clásicos hispánicos. La historiografía literaria tradicional lo consideró durante mucho tiempo el libro inaugural del modernismo, apoyándose en la lectura hiperbólicamente estratégica que de él hizo...

For decades Peter O'Sullevan was one of the iconic sports commentators, providing the sound track for half a century of horseracing as he called home such legends of the sport as Arkle, Nijinsky, Red Rum and Desert Orchid. His rapid-fire commentary seemed to echo the sound of horses' hooves,...

In this collection of acid-tongued essays, “the U.K.’s answer to Dave Barry” skewers his American cousins (Publishers Weekly).   Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars’ Awards and Britain’s finest satirist, John O’Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies,...

Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of...

Contos e poemas para as meninas e meninos mortos por bala perdida no Rio de Janeiro, por escritores consagrados. Projeto originalmente publicado, de forma anônima, na São Paulo Review. Parte da receita desta edição será revertida para ações de educação e atendimento de jovens em comunidades cariocas.

La Chasse au trésor O. Henry Textes intégraux. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire. Cet ouvrage comporte les nouvelles suivantes : La Chasse au trésor, Le jugement de l'Ooncle Jake-Paris,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: An impoverished but loving young couple sacrifices their most precious possessions to buy Christmas gifts for each other. A tramp who is desperate to be sent to prison so he can escape the winter...

Born the day after the first American occupying troops landed near Tokyo in August 1945, Kerry O'Brien's life has spanned the post-war era through the maelstrom of the nuclear and digital age-a remarkable time of intense and dynamic change that has no match in human history. He has witnessed life...

This riotous collection at last gathers together an expansive selection of Flann O'Brien's shorter fiction in a single volume, as well as O'Brien's last and unfinished novel, Slattery's Sago Saga. Also included are new translations of several stories originally published in Irish, and other rare pieces....

Conor Cruise O'Brien's penetrative reading of Albert Camus, Nobel laureate and author of L'Étranger and La Peste, was originally published in 1970. 'O'Brien's Camus is brilliant. While having been himself profoundly moved by Camus's work, he asks why students have so often misinterpreted him.'...

O Direito tributário determina como serão cobrados os tributos da população para gerar receita para o estado. Dominar esses conceitos é fundamental para quem busca atuar nesse ramo jurídico.Direito Tributário é indispensável para quem deseja aprofundar seus conhecimentos nos princípios do Direito...

A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings. As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan...