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A Casa das Romãs | A House of Pomegranates

de Oscar Wilde

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 A presente edição traz aos leitores os contos e as ilustrações originais publicados em 1891, contos repletos de análises e parábolas morais para todas as idades e produzidos durante o período mais feliz e menos turbulento da vida de Oscar Wilde. Wilde aborda principalmente um dos seus temas preferidos: os seres humanos e os seus duplos e a imagem nem sempre fiel que que adquire força e vida própria e que passa a existir graças ou apesar daquele que a originou. Quando da sua publicação, alguns críticos julgaram que A Casa das Romãs era muito complexo para as crianças, mas Wilde claramente tinha ambições mais amplas e julgou ser um absurdo que "o vocabulário extremamente limitado à disposição da criança britânica [fosse] o padrão pelo qual a prosa de um artista pudesse ser julgada." As histórias incluídas nesta coleção são os seguintes: O Jovem Rei É a história de um pastor, neto ilegítimo de um rei, que é trazido ao palácio para aguardar a sua coroação. na noite que antecede a este grande momento, ele tem três pesadelos, um para cada elemento de suas vestes (a coroa, o cetro e o manto), mostrando a visão crítica de Oscar Wilde sobre os usos e costumes da sociedade em que vivia. Comovido com o sonho, o jovem rei tem uma inesperada reação durante sua unção como Rei e o conto parte para um também inesperado desfecho. O Aniversário da Infanta É a história de um anão comprado para a diversão da filha do Rei de Espanha. Ele, então, embriagado pelas atenções da Infanta, começa a acreditar que esta o ama e deste momento em diante, o conto narra as desditas deste amor. Oscar Wilde pontua as relações humanas inseridas no relacionamento social com uma incrível sensibilidade e pede a reflexão do leitor para cada momento narrrado. O Pescador e a Sua Alma Neste conto, um jovem pescador encontra uma sereia e deseja ardentemente casar-se com ela, mas, não pode, pois para viver debaixo d'água não pode ter alma. Explorando o universo fantástico, Oscar Wilde fala sobre o Amor e as suas relações antagônicas com a Propriedade, o Conhecimento e até mesmo com as Sensações. É um dos seus contos mais instigantes e que trabalha com um simbolismo que envolve o leitor do começo ao fim. O Filho da Estrela Um menino é encontrado abandonado na mata por um pobre lenhador que o leva para casa. Ele cresce tornando-se belo, mas inútil, cruel e arrogante, acreditando ser um Filho das Estrelas. Achando-se superior às outras crianças exige dedicação e tem prazer em torturar os animais da floresta e os mendigos da cidade. Até que num dia, uma mendiga cansada e com os pés sangrando chega à cidade em busca do filho perdido... a partir deste ponto, Oscar Wilde recheia uma história empolgante com análises e parábolas morais para todas as idades.

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Notes From Underground & Other Stories

de Fiódor Dostoiévski

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 With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife’s suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.

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Three Japanese Short Stories

de Chiyo Uno, Kafu Nagai e Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The Penguin Book Of Japanese Short Stories

de Jay Rubin

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 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow with a human face and a woman who turns into sugar, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Edited by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami

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The Missing Girl

de Shirley Jackson

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 ' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The Skeleton'S Holiday

de Leonora Carrington

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 'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Men Without Women - Featuring The Short Story That Inspired Oscar-Winning Film Drive My Car

de Haruki Murakami

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 A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
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Investigations Of A Dog

de Franz Kafka

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 If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Dark Days

de James Baldwin

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 'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The Custard Heart

de Dorothy Parker

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 'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Breakthrough

de Daphne Du Maurier

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 Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere? On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The Finger

de William S Burroughs

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 'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamous Beat legend. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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New York City In 1979

de Kathy Acker

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 'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Kurupira

de Jorge Maranhão

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 The narrative unfolds from a casual visit by the narrator Jack Tate to an exhibition on baroque painting in a gallery in London, when the adventures of Kurupira, a mythical figure of an Amazon Forest goblin with inverted feet and defender of the forest, begin, who offers himself as squire to the greatest English philosopher of this century, Sir Roger Scruton, and seizes his soul during his stay in Brazil. They fight against the 12 evil dragons that inhabit the vast Brazilian territory, symbols of the corruption of the 12 biggest Western moral values. Sir Roger is part of a successor group of the 12 knights of the legendary Round Table, along with Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton, Leo Strauss, Michael Oakeshott, Eric Voegelin, Karl Popper, Mario Ferreira dos Santos, Isaiah Berlin, and Russell Kirk, dedicated to the liberal-conservative cause in a world still dominated by baroque-leftist infidels. This is a timely allegory on the civilizing impasse in the Western world, and its influence on the Latin world, especially on Brazil, as a mediator of the voracity of the Chinese Dragon. Because only Brazil, a country that lives immersed under the most resilient baroqueism, as a culture of torsion and distortion of human reason, knows how to decipher Kurupira’s trails.
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The Walnut Shell

de Luiz Cesar Peres

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 The Walnut Shell is a portrait of the migratory situation of the beginning of the 21st century, told in the first person by the protagonist. It is a novel of profound human sensitivity, shedding a little light on the sad socio-economic-cultural reality which part of the world’s population is forced to confront because of the effects of short-sighted and insensitive policies, leading to the immense suffering of those affected. It is also a love story. Love between people. Love for our unknown fellow human-beings.
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Commander João G - Confessions of an Extremist

de Irene Starland

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 «You have to understand that it was not my intention to become an extremist in the beginning. Like I told you, I just wanted to find my ideal woman, my Baltic Bride. Why Baltic, you ask. Well, because my colleague Carlos, head of another department in my ministry, said that the most beautiful women in the world live in Estonia.»
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The Radiance of the Short Story - Fiction from around the Globe

de Aaron Penn e Maurice A. Lee

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 These 104 stories from the 15th International Conference on the Short Story in English, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2018, represent the vast diversity this conference series has grown to represent. From its humble but ambitious beginnings we have grown to include writers and scholars from every continent and over 40 countries. This is truly a global anthology of short stories including both established authors and aspiring writers. However, none of this would have been possible without the incredible support of the writers and scholars themselves. They have worked with me and the various conference co-directors and committees in finding both the time and resources to participate in this conference since 1988. We are truly humbled by the generosity, the dedication, and the professionalism that all participants have displayed throughout these thirty years. It is to them that we both owe and dedicate this anthology. We hope you enjoy reading this text as much as we have enjoyed putting together both the International Conference on the Short Story in English over the years and this 2018 anthology.
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Of Dogs And Walls

de Yûko Tsushima

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 'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Lance

de Vladimir Nabokov

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 'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The End

de Samuel Beckett

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 'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.' From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The Vigilante

de John Steinbeck

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 'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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White Nights

de Fiódor Dostoiévski

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 Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. A Penguin Classics Hardcover Regarded as one of world literature’s foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short stories are also some of the best ever written. “White Nights” tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, “A Nasty Business” presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while “The Meek One” is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy.

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The Three Electroknights

de Stanislaw Lem

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The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince

de Oscar Wilde

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 Estes dois contos revelam-nos o valor da partilha através de duas figuras únicas: um gigante que tinha um belo jardim mas que, por ser muito egoísta, não deixava ninguém brincar nele; um príncipe feito estátua coberta de ouro e pedras preciosas que, apesar de ser feliz, se comove com o sofrimento dos homens, optando por se despojar pouco a pouco da sua riqueza.
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