Títulos em Antologias e Contos

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century. 'The String Quartet' is a beautifully written and evocative stream of semiconscious thought stimulated by listening to a string quartet playing a piece by Mozart.

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.

These novelists burst with a literary energy that is hard to contain. They cover a myriad of styles and themes, narratives packed full of fully-formed characters in powerful tales that have become an essential and integral part of our literary heritage.

"White Nights" is the third major Dostoyevsky short story that everyone should read or listen to, along with "A Faint Heart" and "The Christmas Tree and Wedding". The story contains a series of Winesburg, Ohio-like moments: a woman and man meet on the First Night; proceed to meet again on the Second and Third, almost fall in love, and at the last minute the former lover of the woman returns to take her away. But the point is that the man had a glorious moment....

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were originally written between c. 100 and c. 300 CE, but the collection as known today was first compiled by medieval Byzantine editors. It was translated into Latin in the 15th century by the Italian humanist scholars Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) and Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500).

The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records. Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world. With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters whose lives seem dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives.

Jane Eyre is a plain orphan girl, unloved and abused by her Aunt Reed, who is sent away to boarding school. Strong of heart and craving independence, Jane embarks upon a life of governess to a young French girl named Adele, the benefactor of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Life at Thornfield Hall proves just as mysterious as its owner with haunting laughter and a dark secret living in the attic.

With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever.

"Então escrever é o modo de quem tem a palavra como isca: a palavra pescando o que não é palavra.” Nesta frase antológica de Clarice existe uma chave para o entendimento do poderoso efeito que seus textos produzem no leitor.

The most romantic literary lovers in history: Heathcliff and Cathy. Frederic and Catherine. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection - Volume II featuring Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

William Crimsworth escapes the brutal employment of his brother in a Yorkshire mill town, changes profession and takes a position as tutor in a boys' school in Brussels.The authoress is unusually frank, for the time, in her scrutiny of the relationship between the teacher and the domineering headmistress of the adjoining girls' school, Zoraide Reuter.

Amar, verbo intransitivo é um romance publicado em 1941 pelo escritor brasileiro Mário de Andrade. A obra retrata a vida boêmia da elite cultural paulistana dos anos 1930 e aborda temas como a liberdade sexual e de costumes. A trama gira em torno de um triângulo amoroso entre um escritor, uma médica e um estudante de direito. Ao longo da narrativa, os personagens refletem sobre o amor, o desejo e as convenções sociais da época. Considerado uma obra-prima da ficção modernista brasileira, o livro inovou estilisticamente ao mesclar poesia, prosa e diálogos.

A bela e a fera é uma das obras de Clarice Lispector que exalam a capacidade criadora e o poder de imaginação da estrela maior da literatura de autoria feminina no Brasil.

This newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking of control of her own life.

Os textos reunidos em "Onde estivestes de noite" desenham um conjunto heterogêneo, onde é possível identificar o tom das crônicas que Clarice Lispector publicava semanalmente em sua coluna do Jornal do Brasil de 1967 a 1973.

La storia è il classico triangolo amoroso: lui, lei, l’altra. Solo che lui (Venâncio) e lei (Dalva) si adorano. Tanto che lui è di una gelosia omicida e, quando vede lei allattare il primo frutto del loro grande amore, strappa il figlio alla madre e lo scaraventa via, uccidendolo – o così sembra. L’altra (Lucy), per converso, è la prostituta più bella e più desiderata della città, ma non da lui, che dopo la tragedia continua a vivere con la moglie, la quale però fa come se lui non esistesse obbligandolo perciò ad andare al bordello per sfogarsi, con la prima che capita.

Nos quinze contos que compõem o livro, vemos o espírito de toda uma cidade no conjunto de seus cidadãos. As personagens que povoam essa Dublin são quase sempre marginalizadas e frívolas, marcadas pela frustração? jesuítas, mendigos, alcoólatras e artistas, que povoam velórios, pensões, cafés e comitês de província, declarando seus preconceitos de classe e revelando seus dramas pessoais. A experiência narrativa de Joyce adensa-se na direção da consciência de suas personagens, incluindo, misturando e confundindo os diversos gêneros do discurso e pontos de vista.

The Thing on the Doorstep is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe. It was written in August 1933 and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, explains that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer.

Várias Histórias é uma coletânea de contos de Machado de Assis publicada em 1896. Reúne 16 contos, entre eles alguns dos mais prestigiados de sua carreira como A Cartomante, A Causa Secreta, Uns Braços e O Apólogo.