Rastro Books: 200 books

Cover of Violets and other tales
by Alice Dunbar Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2019

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875 – 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was...
Cover of Casa de Pensão
by Aluísio Azevedo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 22, 2019

Casa de Pensão é um livro de estilo naturalista escrito por Aluísio Azevedo em 1884. Narrado em terceira pessoa, Casa de Pensão inicia com a chegada do jovem maranhense Amâncio ao Rio De Janeiro, que para ali se muda no intuito de estudar medicina na Corte. Chegando à cidade, Amâncio procura...
Cover of O Coruja
by Aluísio Azevedo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 22, 2019

Publicado em 1887, a obra retrata a classe média oitocentista, e seus problemas como: o casamento, as finanças, a juventude, heranças, intrigas, etc. Ainda que relevante, o personagem que dá título ao romance, é figura secundária dentro do enredo. O protagonista é Teobaldo, André, O Coruja,...
Cover of O Seminarista
by Bernardo Guimarães
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 26, 2019

O Seminarista é um romance de Bernardo Guimarães publicado pela primeira vez em 1872. O livro veio a público um ano depois de uma forte campanha através dos jornais contra o episcopado no Rio de Janeiro, num episódio conhecido na história do Brasilcomo a "Questão religiosa". A obra...
Cover of Six Stories by Irish Authors
by Various authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019

Six short stories of famous Irish authors: The Gridiron by Samuel Lover (1797 – 1868) The Emergency Men by George H. Jessop (1852 – 1915) A Lost Recruit by Jane Barlow (1856 – 1917) The Rival Dreamers by John Banim (1798 – 1842) Neal Malone by William Carleton (1794 – 1869) The Banshee (Anonymous)
Cover of La Sonate à Kreutzer
by Léon Tolstoï
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2019

La Sonate à Kreutzer est une longue nouvelle (ou un court roman) en langue russe de Léon Tolstoï écrite dans sa maison de Moscou et publiée en 1889. Le titre fait référence à la Sonate pour violon et piano no 9 en la majeur, dite « Sonate à Kreutzer », de Beethoven, que joue l’un des...
Cover of Le Roi Des Montagnes
by Edmond About
Language: French
Release Date: May 20, 2019

D’ordinaire des otages en captivité chez un tyran sanguinaire et tortionnaire à l’occasion ne donnent pas lieu à réjouissances. Mais dans ce roman satirique et plein d’humour où bandits grecs et gendarmes sont complices, l’auteur nous empêche de prendre les situations au sérieux. Histoire...
Cover of La Mère de la Marquise
by Edmond About
Language: French
Release Date: May 20, 2019

« Mme Benoît, dont l’humeur et la figure ont bien changé depuis dix ans, était en ce temps-là (1846) une personne tout à fait aimable. Elle jouissait délicieusement de cette seconde jeunesse que la nature n’accorde pas à toutes les femmes, et qui s’étend entre la quarantième et la...
Cover of Hospital Sketches
by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019

Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown. Tribulation Periwinkle opens the story by complaining, "I want something...
Cover of Human, All Too Human

Human, All Too Human

A Book for Free Spirits

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, was published in 1879, and a third part, The Wanderer and his Shadow, followed in 1880. The book is Nietzsche's...
Cover of Révolution et contre-révolution en Allemagne
by Friedrich Engels
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2019

Révolution et contre-révolution en Allemagne est un livre de Friedrich Engels, auquel a participé Karl Marx qui traite la Révolution de mars et contre-révolution en Allemagne et publié posthume par Eleanor Marx en 1896. À l'origine, il s'agit d'une série d'articles publiés dans le New-York...
Cover of Lorenzaccio

Lorenzaccio

DRAME EN CINQ ACTES

by Alfred de Musset
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2019

Lorenzaccio est un drame romantique, en cinq actes, écrit par Alfred de Musset, en 1834, sur une idée de George Sand, qui lui avait confié le manuscrit de sa scène historique inédite intitulée Une conspiration en 1537. Il est publié en août 1834, dans le premier tome de la seconde livraison...
Cover of La Science et l'Hypothèse
by Henri Poincaré
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019

La Science et l'Hypothèse est un ouvrage destiné au grand public dans lequel le mathématicien Henri Poincaré fait le point sur ce qu'il faut attendre ou non des sciences concernant les quatre sujets suivants : les mathématiques ; les caractéristiques de l'espace (y compris en géométrie...
Cover of What Must I Do To Be Saved?
by Robert Green Ingersoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019

Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (1833 – 1899) was an American writer and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic".
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