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Written in 1950, Eugene Ionesco's first play, The Bald Soprano, was a seminal work of Absurdist theatre. Today, it is celebrated around the world as a modern classic for its imagination and sui generis theatricality. A hilarious parody of English manners and a striking statement on the alienation of modern life, it was inspired by the strange dialogues Ionesco encountered in foreign language phrase books.
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Stefania is a Polish Jew put into the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Stefania is a city gal who believes the Germans are planning the end of the Jewish race. She fears for her life and the life of her two teenage sons.Stefania meets a Jewish hospital employee, Fela Gorecki, who is a Polish Catholic woman involved in a Polish Underground smuggling operation. Fela and her associates arrange to have Jewish children smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Stefania...
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My Simple Verses is a poetry book with selected poems from the Brazilian poet Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco. His verse is straightforward, but profound and full of sensibility. It holds some of his Brazilian style as well his philosophical sophistication. You will certainly enjoy it.
5) The Dagger
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Jamie visits his dying grandfather and is told the story of a Nazi dagger in the old man's box of belongings.
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This famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution. Among the seventeen bold and inventive comic writers represented here are the brilliant Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Valentin Katayev, and Yuri Kazakov.
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BOOK ONE
I have traveled around the world. I have visited and revisited more than eighty countries. With each trip, a discovery about the history and culture of a people through packaging. This narrative is unveiled in detail through photographs, typographies, illustrations, characters, materials, colors and formats. The wealth of a people is packed in shelves within reach of consumers.
The idea behind the books is to provide this journey through...
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Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Molière's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic....
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The biography, the philosophy, and some of the most influential works of the infamous French writer who shocked the world with his erotic novel, Justine.
No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century-from Baudelaire and Swinburne...
10) Os Miseráveis
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Com a França do século XIX como pano de fundo, «Os Miseráveis» conta uma apaixonante história de sonhos desfeitos, de um amor não correspondido, paixão, sacrifício e redenção, num testemunho intemporal da sobrevivência do espírito humano.
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Bienvenue à La migration de l'art entre l'histoire et la géographie, un livre qui explore le concept fascinant de la migration des arts à travers l'histoire et la géographie. Dans ce livre, nous irons dans un voyage qui explore comment l'art a voyagé à travers le temps et l'espace, d'une région à l'autre, se transformant et s'adaptant à mesure qu'il migre.Nous examinerons les influences culturelles, sociales et politiques qui façonnent la...
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From all over Europe-Scotland to the Mediterranean, Hungary to Cornwall-Elisabeth Luard has collected descriptions of traditional feasts and festivals, many of which she has experienced firsthand, and hundreds of recipes for the dishes appropriate to them. As well as being a unique and wonderfully readable cookbook, Seasonal European Dishes (previously published as European Festival Food) is written with the scrupulous attention to detail and authenticity...
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La esclava del Negro Ponto es una obra dramática escrita por Luciano Francisco de Comella, un autor español que vivió entre los siglos XVIII-XIX, conocido por sus dramas y comedias. La trama de esta obra particular se ubica en una isla del Negro Ponto, un término que se refiere al Mar Negro en la antigüedad.
La isla, en el contexto de la obra, es representada como un antiguo emporio cristiano que ha sido ocupado por una versión islamizada de...
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"The Vines of Almaviva" is a libretto, a story told in rhyming couplets that could be enjoyed as a play or, if set to music, as a musical or an opera. But it is also a sequel to the opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" so it would be of greatest interest to people familiar with that opera and its precursor, "The Barber of Seville". It is not the first sequel to be written in this series, but unlike the half dozen others, it has a positive outlook. All...
15) Ismaelillo
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Ismaelillo (1882) es un libro fundamental para la literatura hispanoamericana y el volumen que inaugura el Modernismo en lengua española. En estos poemas José Martí inicia el lenguaje contemporáneo para la poesía en castellano. El poemario es una obra literaria única e inspiradora que presenta una colección de versos escritos por el cubano José Martí y dedicados a su hijo.
La influencia de este poemario de José Martí en escritores como...
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One of the all-time great cookbooks receives a lavish update and remains an essential resource and inspiration for cooks of all levels. One of the greatest cookbooks of all time, The Constance Spry Cookery Book remains an essential kitchen bible: astonishingly informative, supremely practical, and constantly at-hand for countless home cooks and future top chefs for over fifty years. With over a thousand pages filled with recipes, cooking history,...
17) Leer o no ser
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De manera original nos invita a la reflexión sobre los sueños, los sentimientos y las emociones, llegando con muchas de ellas incluso a sacarnos una media sonrisa. Disfrutando de una prosa poética particular, nos dejamos llevar saltando de una frase a otra sin ningún orden aparente, teniendo la sensación de haber recibido pequeños pellizcos.
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Moscow, 1938. Stalin has been in power for sixteen years and his purges are underway. Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is lying unpublished in a desk drawer, and his latest play Molière has been banned following terrible reviews in Pravda. As a secret policeman dryly puts it, this has opened up a convenient "gap in his schedule." This "gap" is to be filled by writing a play about Stalin's life.
As Bulgakov loses himself in a world of secrets,...
19) Fausto
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"Último grande poema dos tempos modernos", no dizer de Otto Maria Carpeaux, o "Fausto" de Goethe está para a Modernidade assim como "A Divina Comédia" de Dante para a Idade Média. Representa não só a obra máxima de seu autor, mas a suma do conhecimento e das aspirações de sua época.
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Um dos primeiros livros de Goethe, provavelmente de caráter autobiográfico, este romance caracteriza-se por seu teor epistolar, pois se trata da reprodução de cartas que o Jovem Werther teria escrito ao narrador por muito tempo. A obra, narrada na primeira pessoa, com economia de personagens, tem em suas notas de rodapé a indicação de que nomes e locais foram substituídos por dados fictícios, o que contribui para que se acredite na transposição...
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