A classified ad is offering a large reward for the return of a lost greyhound. Mendonça, a single young doctor who has found the dog, makes his way to a house on Rua de Mata-cavalos, where the rewar……続きを見る
The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis.
Length: 4,000 words.
Date of English transla……続きを見る
In this new dark Age, myth and legend has become reality; nothing is quite as it seems.
The plague came without warning. Nothing could stop its progress: it's first symptom is black spots at the bas……続きを見る
This is the story of a Finnish family during World War II, combining a gripping correspondence between the author's parents, who were separated by the war, with the interspersed memories of the auth……続きを見る
著者:Lester Chadwick
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2021年02月24日
MOVING DAY Phil Clinton looked critically at the rickety old sofa. Then he glanced at his chum, Tom Parsons. Next he lifted, very cautiously, one end of the antiquated piece of furniture. The sofa b……続きを見る
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the fir……続きを見る
A historical novel depicting the struggle of a loyalist woman during and after the revolutionary war, even being forced to leave her home and country. As property of her husband, she contends with h……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Chadwick
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年08月19日
During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the is……続きを見る
The central challenges facing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia as they work to catch up to advanced European Union (EU) income levels are discu……続きを見る
Máximo, an impoverished young poet and student, inherits a fortune on the unexpected death of his godfather. His own fortunes, however, are not greatly improved.
Genre: short story
Length: 5,400 wor……続きを見る
"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. An……続きを見る
Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primar……続きを見る
Em 1884 Júlio César Machado escreveu este livro onde recorda, com mais humor que saudade, a vida em Lisboa como ele a vivenciou.
Publicada originalmente há mais de um s&eacut……続きを見る
Divirta-se e aperfeiçoe seu inglês ou português com estes três contos de Machado de Assis bastante conhecidos: A Cartomante, O Enfermeiro e Viver! (Também é p……続きを見る
"Tudo o que contei no fim do outro capítulo foi obra de um instante. O que se lhe seguiu foi ainda mais rápido. Dei um pulo, e antes que ela raspasse o muro, li estes dois nomes, abertos ao prego, e……続きを見る
著者:Dora Machado
出版社: Twilight Times Books
発売日: 2013年11月05日
Lusielle's bleak but orderly life as a remedy mixer is shattered when she is sentenced to die for a crime she didn't commit. She's on the pyre, about to be burned, when a stranger breaks through the……続きを見る
The year is 1140 and England is torn by the strife of civil war. Oliver Pascal chances upon a village raided by mercenaries and rescues the survivors: an orphaned boy, who is the illegitimate son of……続きを見る
This first book to illuminate this important aspect of chemical synthesis improves the lifetime of catalysts, thus reducing material and saving energy, costs and waste.
The international panel of ex……続きを見る
As I sat alone this evening beneath the porch, the autumn wind rose and passed amongst the garden trees, then died away in the distance with a low murmuring. A strange thrill ran through me; the pre……続きを見る
1593. Queen Elizabeth's trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead for two years...
As plague sweeps through the streets and stews of London, so suspicion and mistrust sweep through the court and go……続きを見る
In this book, i share practical experience of what it is to live a life that is based on success and fulfillment. i believes that success is not in the absence of challenges and that prosperity is n……続きを見る
A Mão e a Luva é mais um clássico da Literatura Brasileira escrito por Machado de Assis. O livro conta a história de Guiomar, uma jovem de 17 anos que é disputada por três rapazes: Jorge, Estêvão e ……続きを見る
"And over the years, in other loves, more real and longer lasting, he never experienced a feeling like that of that Sunday on Rua da Lapa, when he was fifteen years old." Fifteen-year-ol……続きを見る
Fear nua is ea Firdia Mac an Ultaigh i gCúl Glas, baile beag i gContae Thiobraid Árann, agus siopa nua á oscailt aige. Fear é a chaitheann a shaol de réir prionsabail fealsúnachta a thagann ín gcian……続きを見る
"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started ……続きを見る
Der große Klassiker der brasilianischen Literatur in einer Neuübersetzung
Machado de Assis ist der unumstrittene Leitstern unter den Klassikern Brasiliens, sein literarisches Vermächtnis ein Feuerwe……続きを見る
Volumen 3, Los herederos: 1828-1863
El tercer volumen de la saga cubre el prolongado e inestable nacimiento de la república tras la separación de Venezuela de la Gran Colombia. A&nt……続きを見る
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis é amplamente considerado como o maior nome da literatura nacional. Escreveu em praticamente todos os gêneros literários, sendo poeta, romancista, cronista, dramaturgo,……続きを見る
João Baptista Vico, remontando-se á infancia poetica das sociedades humanas, vai encontrar a origem da curiosidade, filha da ignorancia e mãi da sciencia, n'um phenomeno natural que effectivamente d……続きを見る