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]]> 63009 72 Lon L. Fuller 8574561622 Catarina 4 3.74 1949
author: Lon L. Fuller
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]]> 3532 124 Ivan Turgenev 0974607894 Catarina 0 to-read 3.82 1860
author: Ivan Turgenev
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]]> 5261
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James.

In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance “as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels.�� It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton’s fiction.]]> 385 Edith Wharton 0684847558 Catarina 0 to-read 3.81 1934
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]]> 53835 The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.��

This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.]]> 293 Edith Wharton 159308143X Catarina 5 3.96 1920
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average rating: 3.96
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Perfect! Soul crushing! What a masterpiece!!!!
]]> 215785422 O primeiro romance de Aldous Huxley, autor de Admirável mundo novo

Uma crítica afiada à alta sociedade, seus luxos e interesses vazios

Denis é um jovem poeta tímido e cheio de incertezas sobre a vida. Ao chegar em Crome, no interior da Inglaterra, para passar as férias na mansão do sr. e da sra. Wimbush, se encontra com uma realidade à parte, em que pessoas ricas, escritores, jornalistas, pintores e socialites esbanjam o seu ócio pouco produtivo dia após dia.

Entre horóscopos de cavalos, discussões existencialistas, flertes e um vaivém constante e desinteressado de personagens, Denis se mistura à excêntrica fauna do lugar e tenta se encaixar e se descobrir como homem e como poeta. Logo, porém, ele se dá conta de que aquelas pessoas, à primeira vista tão cultas e interessantes, possuem mentes tão caóticas quanto a dele.

Em Amarelo-Cromo, publicado originalmente em 1921 mas ainda hoje atemporal, Huxley descreve como poucos a sensação de desconforto diante das extravagâncias vazias, hipocrisias e incoerências da aristocracia inglesa e, com detalhes nem sempre sutis, expõe os valores e princípios não tão admiráveis da alta sociedade.]]> 224 Aldous Huxley 6558302144 Catarina 0 to-read 4.00 1921
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]]> 188087 159 Katherine Mansfield 0140188800 Catarina 0 currently-reading 3.87 1921
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]]> 18090048
Molly wanted more, and she got more than she could have ever bargained for.

In Molly's Game, Molly Bloom takes the reader through her adventures running an exclusive high-stakes private poker game. Her clients ranged from iconic stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck to politicians and financial titans so powerful they moved markets and changed the course of history. With rich detail, Molly describes a world that until now has been shrouded in glamour, privilege, and secrecy, one where she fearlessly took on the Russian and Italian mobs—until she met the one adversary she could not outsmart, even though she had justice on her side: the United States government.

Molly's Game is an incredible coming-of-age story about a young girl who rejected convention in pursuit of her version of the American dream. It's the story of how she gained—and then lost—her place at the table, and of everything she learned about poker, love, and life in the process.]]> 272 Molly Bloom 0062213075 Catarina 2 3.72 2014
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]]> 581125 112 Philip K. Dick 0375421874 Catarina 3 3.85 1956
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]]> 18850
On Being Ill was published as an individual volume by Hogarth Press in 1930. While other Woolf essays, such as A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, were first published by Hogarth as individual volumes and have since been widely available, On Being Ill has been overlooked. The Paris Press edition features original cover art by Woolf's sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Hermione Lee's Introduction discusses this extraordinary work, and explores Woolf's revelations about poetry, language, and illness.]]> 63 Virginia Woolf 1930464061 Catarina 4 4.03 1926
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> 53672 O primeiro romance de Aldous Huxley, autor de Admirável mundo novo

Uma crítica afiada à alta sociedade, seus luxos e interesses vazios

Denis é um jovem poeta tímido e cheio de incertezas sobre a vida. Ao chegar em Crome, no interior da Inglaterra, para passar as férias na mansão do sr. e da sra. Wimbush, se encontra com uma realidade à parte, em que pessoas ricas, escritores, jornalistas, pintores e socialites esbanjam o seu ócio pouco produtivo dia após dia.

Entre horóscopos de cavalos, discussões existencialistas, flertes e um vaivém constante e desinteressado de personagens, Denis se mistura à excêntrica fauna do lugar e tenta se encaixar e se descobrir como homem e como poeta. Logo, porém, ele se dá conta de que aquelas pessoas, à primeira vista tão cultas e interessantes, possuem mentes tão caóticas quanto a dele.

Em Amarelo-Cromo, publicado originalmente em 1921 mas ainda hoje atemporal, Huxley descreve como poucos a sensação de desconforto diante das extravagâncias vazias, hipocrisias e incoerências da aristocracia inglesa e, com detalhes nem sempre sutis, expõe os valores e princípios não tão admiráveis da alta sociedade.]]> 176 Aldous Huxley 0486436632 Catarina 3 3.45 1921
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]]> 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Catarina 5 favorites Beyond magnificent!!! ]]> 3.80 1925
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Not even the entire amount of stars and galaxies in the Universe would be enough to rate this book!
Beyond magnificent!!!
]]> 153747 "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.]]> 720 Herman Melville 0142437247 Catarina 0 to-read 3.53 1851
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]]> 775346
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents�� yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.]]> 624 Donna Tartt 1400031699 Catarina 2 abandonados, to-read 3.47 2002
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]]> 114230 Moby-Dick��Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?

The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine—to, sadly, critical disdain.]]> 64 Herman Melville 0974607800 Catarina 4 3.91 1853
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]]> 647686 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0330339176

'If you have ever watched a band play or bought a pop record you should read this book' John Peel]]> 288 Giles Smith 0330339176 Catarina 0 to-read 3.83 1987
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]]> 196018393 ‘A lovely book �� as bright, shiny and uplifting as an Abba hit�� Daily Mail

‘[A] witty and affectionate account . . . It’s not a stretch to say that, at its core, My My! is a book about time, death and the possibility of immortality�� Sunday Times

My My! The story of ABBA told through a selection of their greatest hits.

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo (the song, not the battle) �� a seminal moment in pop history which saw Swedish sensation ABBA burst on to the international music scene. How is it that half a century later this seventies Eurovision act is bigger than ever �� reaching listeners of all ages and spinning off into musicals, museums and holograms? Giles Smith, writer and music fan, sets out to find out why.

My My! is a celebration of ABBA through the ages. It’s one fan’s way of thank you for the music.]]> 335 Giles Smith 1398529729 Catarina 0 currently-reading 3.60 2024
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]]> 49637943
O resultado deste convite foi A Invenção Ocasional, uma colecção de cinquenta e um textos, uma polifonia de temas, composta nas variadas dimensões da vida.
O livro “começa por acaso no dia 20 de Janeiro de 2018 pela narração sempre incerta de uma primeira vez e termina por acaso no dia 12 de Janeiro de 2019 focando-se sobre uma última vez��.
Fala-nos de acontecimentos que permaneceram na memória da autora ou que se desenvolvem no presente, episódios, imagens, gestos, intuições, relações e leituras, que no seu conjunto compõem um mosaico em movimento onde o imaginário das mulheres de hoje ocupa um importante lugar.]]> 128 Elena Ferrante 9896419485 Catarina 3 3.90 2019
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average rating: 3.90
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rating: 3
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]]> 53961935 Com a morte do avô, Manuel parte à descoberta da cidade. Guiada por uma imensa delicadeza e sensibilidade narrativas, um mundo deslumbrante e ao mesmo tempo cruel e doloroso vai-se revelando a esta criança aflita.
Retrato subtil de uma grande cidade com espírito de pequena aldeia, dos seus habitantes e das suas angústias e desencantos e de um quotidiano feito de pequenas intrigas e tragédias familiares, Cão Velho Entre Flores ressuscita uma época singular na História de Portugal, mas confirma, sobretudo, a maestria narrativa de um dos maiores escritores portugueses.]]> 146 Armando Baptista-Bastos 9727480330 Catarina 3 3.66 1982
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name: Catarina
average rating: 3.66
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rating: 3
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]]> 212620353 242 Tatiana Salem Levy 6556926027 Catarina 0 to-read 4.13 2024
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> 213975223
Clássico redescoberto, testemunho histórico de uma época, retrato primoroso da turbulência doméstica, O caderno proibido condensa a sede de liberdade de toda uma geração e das outras que se lhe seguiriam. Precursora da linhagem literária mais disruptiva da modernidade �� de Virginia Woolf a Natalia Ginzburg, de Marguerite Duras a Vivian Gornick ��, Alba de Céspedes celebra aqui o poder da escrita e a audácia indómita de uma mulher numa sociedade em ebulição.]]> 294 Alba de Céspedes 9897872310 Catarina 5 4.39 1952
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> 17799 Alternate cover edition here.

Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.]]> 190 Haruki Murakami 0099448572 Catarina 4
I truly appreciated this Murakami’s novel!]]> 3.89 1992
author: Haruki Murakami
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It’s not about the story or the plot. It’s this intense feeling of nostalgia that guides us through the book.

I truly appreciated this Murakami’s novel!
]]> 40554247 She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off.

One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress’s uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she’s asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant’s reclusive owner.

Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami’s 70th birthday.]]> 48 Haruki Murakami 1787301257 Catarina 4 3.62 2002
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]]> 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
��
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence �� a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Catarina 5 I can’t put my feelings into words!��
This book��
My heart is both crushed and elated for I was lucky enough to come across this marvellous work of art!

Dear Charlie, I already miss you!
How can a story from 1959 resonate so deeply in our hearts today? (How much has actually changed today regarding the core subject?�� I wonder��)

Oh boy�� I’ll just cut this comment short:
Glimpses of absolute perfection now and then and overall an endearing story about a really sweet simple guy.

What a magnificent book!]]> 4.19 1966
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Boy, oh boy!��
I can’t put my feelings into words!��
This book��
My heart is both crushed and elated for I was lucky enough to come across this marvellous work of art!

Dear Charlie, I already miss you!
How can a story from 1959 resonate so deeply in our hearts today? (How much has actually changed today regarding the core subject?�� I wonder��)

Oh boy�� I’ll just cut this comment short:
Glimpses of absolute perfection now and then and overall an endearing story about a really sweet simple guy.

What a magnificent book!
]]> 62355047 96 Annie Ernaux Catarina 3 4.34 2000
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]]> 58696 882 Charles Dickens Catarina 0 to-read 4.02 1850
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]]> 4687 1064 John Irving 0786226749 Catarina 0 to-read 4.16 1985
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]]> 19101879 A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.]]> 272 John Steinbeck 9723810891 Catarina 0 to-read 4.01 1961
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]]> 13409842
Em 'Uma vasta e deserta paisagem', obra galardoada com o Prémio da Crítica Norueguesa, a vida apresenta-se tal como ela é. Com uma escrita contundente, subtilmente esculpida, e um humor negro implacável, estes contos são uma profunda dissecação da alma humana.]]> 74 Kjell Askildsen Catarina 4 4.05 1991
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> 61459 Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y el público de media Europa, Irène Némirovsky mostró desde muy joven un talento excepcional. Con veintisiete años de edad, Némirovsky saltó a la fama con esta breve joya literaria sobre la venganza de una adolescente, editada en Francia en 1930 y traducida al castellano en 1986.
Instalados en un lujoso piso de París, los Kampf poseen todo lo que el dinero puede comprar, excepto lo más difícil: el reconocimiento de la alta sociedad francesa. Así pues, con el propósito de obtener el codiciado premio, preparan un gran baile para doscientos invitados, un magno acontecimiento social que para el señor y la señora Kampf supondrá, respectivamente, una excelente inversión y la soñada apoteosis mundana.Pero en casa de los Kampf no todos comparten el mismo entusiasmo. Herida en su orgullo por la prohibición materna de asistir al ágape, Antoinette, de catorce años, observa con amargura los agitados preparativos del baile y siente que ha llegado la ocasión de enfrentarse a su madre, afirmarse a sí misma y realizar su propia entrada en la edad adulta. Con un breve gesto, tan impulsivo como espontáneo, provoca una situación absurda que culminará en un final dramático y revelador.
Dotada de una afilada percepción psicológica, Némirovsky condensa en pocas páginas una historia donde la difícil relación madre-hija y el ansia de reconocimiento social se funden con la pasión por la vida y la búsqueda de la felicidad. Una obra indispensable de uno de los grandes escritores del siglo XX.]]> 94 Irène Némirovsky 8498380235 Catarina 4 3.74 1930
author: Irène Némirovsky
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]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women �� and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—T�ܰ��Ա��
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Catarina 0 4.05 1892
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]]> 21405523 Com o título inspirado pelo princípio da química a respeito de certos elementos que são atraídos para outros, e com uma temática calcada na própria biografia sentimental (e conflituosa) de Goethe, este romance é um dos triunfos supremos do romantismo. Permanece, mais de duzentos anos depois de sua publicação original, como um estudo profundo sobre amor e destino.
Esta edição permite conhecer (ou revisitar) a obra que é uma das pedras fundamentais do romance do século XIX. Um objeto literário encantador e meditativo sobre como somos arrastados pelas paixões.]]> 328 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 8563560921 Catarina 2 3.75 1809
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name: Catarina
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 17307974
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.]]> 320 John Williams 1448156025 Catarina 5 favorites 4.24 1965
author: John Williams
name: Catarina
average rating: 4.24
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rating: 5
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]]> 437541 160 Sophocles 1585100862 Catarina 0 to-read 3.82 -409
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]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Catarina 4 3.95 1872
author: Jules Verne
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.95
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]]> 92250
The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.]]> 119 Tony Kushner 1559360615 Catarina 0 to-read 4.27 1993
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]]> 24445388
Elena conhece a sua amiga na primeira classe. Provêm ambas de famílias remediadas. O pai de Elena trabalha como porteiro na câmara municipal, o de Lila Cerullo é sapateiro.

Lila é bravia, sagaz, corajosa nas palavras e nas acções. Tem resposta pronta para tudo e age com uma determinação que a pacata e estudiosa Elena inveja.

Quando a desajeitada Lila se transforma numa adolescente que fascina os rapazes do bairro, Elena continua a procurar nela a sua inspiração.

O percurso de ambas separa-se quando, ao contrário de Lila, Elena continua os estudos liceais e Lila tem de lutar por si e pela sua família no bairro onde vive. Mas a sua amizade prossegue.

A Amiga Genial tem o andamento de uma grande narrativa popular, densa, veloz e desconcertante, ligeira e profunda, mostrando os conflitos familiares e amorosos numa sucessão de episódios que os leitores desejariam que nunca acabasse.]]> 272 Elena Ferrante 9896414793 Catarina 3 4.29 2011
author: Elena Ferrante
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]]> 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.��

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Catarina 5 E este livro... este livro!...
Quis lê-lo porque o Stephen King cita-o várias vezes no seu livro “Hearts in Atlantis�� (e esse foi também um livro que me marcou de um modo que nem se consegue descrever!).
Porque levei tanto tempo a descobri-lo?!

George e Lennie. “Guys like us��. O que é ser como eles? O que nos separa uns dos outros logo à partida?
“Guys like us��, sem casa fixa, sem rendimento fixo, sem família fixa. A trabalhar onde calha, onde pagarem, nos ranchos da América profunda.
Dois companheiros improváveis, a definir a vida um do outro, a depender um do outro, a sofrer um com o outro e um pelo outro.
“Tell how it’s gonna be��.
E vão sonhando, tentando materializar nas suas misérias o sonho mais simples da humanidade - ter uma casa, uma família, uma quinta pequena, semear e colher, fazer festas na cabeça do cão, beber uma cerveja na varanda, pernas estendidas, chapéu sobre os olhos, o final da tarde além do rio e das árvores...
“Tell how it’s gonna be��.
Ah Steinbeck!...
A forma como foi...]]> 3.88 1937
author: John Steinbeck
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Já me tinha esquecido de como é ler o Steinbeck... Quando terminei, há tantos anos, a Batalha Incerta recordo-me do impacto que teve em mim, mas já nem sei detalhar a história... recordo-me somente do impacto.
E este livro... este livro!...
Quis lê-lo porque o Stephen King cita-o várias vezes no seu livro “Hearts in Atlantis�� (e esse foi também um livro que me marcou de um modo que nem se consegue descrever!).
Porque levei tanto tempo a descobri-lo?!

George e Lennie. “Guys like us��. O que é ser como eles? O que nos separa uns dos outros logo à partida?
“Guys like us��, sem casa fixa, sem rendimento fixo, sem família fixa. A trabalhar onde calha, onde pagarem, nos ranchos da América profunda.
Dois companheiros improváveis, a definir a vida um do outro, a depender um do outro, a sofrer um com o outro e um pelo outro.
“Tell how it’s gonna be��.
E vão sonhando, tentando materializar nas suas misérias o sonho mais simples da humanidade - ter uma casa, uma família, uma quinta pequena, semear e colher, fazer festas na cabeça do cão, beber uma cerveja na varanda, pernas estendidas, chapéu sobre os olhos, o final da tarde além do rio e das árvores...
“Tell how it’s gonna be��.
Ah Steinbeck!...
A forma como foi...
]]> 269894 A Simple Heart, also published as A Simple Soul.

In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's "great saint" endures loss after loss by embracing the rich, true rhythms of life: the comfort of domesticity, the solace of the Church, and the depth of memory. This novella showcases Flaubert's perfectly honed realism: a delicate counterpoint of daily events with their psychological repercussions.]]> 68 Gustave Flaubert 0811213188 Catarina 3 3.60 1877
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]]> 33800458 O conflito entre alma e corpo, ou espírito e carne, ou divindade e homem, é um dos pilares da obra de Nikos Kazantzákis. A ele, o narrador é lançado com força através de confrontos de visão de mundo que irão remodelar seu modo de pensar. O resultado é uma nova dimensão de compreensão da alma humana, algo infestado de vida, algo que os livros não puderam lhe dar.
"Vida e Proezas de Aléxis Zorbás" consegue ser ao mesmo tempo um romance de aventura, que se lê com febre, e um romance de formação, que transforma. Como em todo grande livro, sua leitura não é apenas uma experiência literária de excelência, é uma experiência de vida.]]> 381 Nikos Kazantzakis 8561578602 Catarina 0 currently-reading 3.73 1946
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]]> 5263074 «El adulterio es un asunto grave para el marido; los demás lo consideran un fracaso que no exige sangrientos excesos.»

El próspero Godofredo da Conceição Alves, regresa a su casa un 9 de julio con la idea de sorprender a su esposa con un regalo que ha de conmemorar su cuarto aniversario de bodas y, en efecto, la sorprende... en salto de cama, en el sofá, con su joven socio Machado. ¿Cómo afecta esta tragedia del honor a un hombre ridículo que no quiere ser puesto en ridículo? El repudio, el suicidio, el duelo a muerte... todo es considerado por quien ingresa en «la grotesca tribu de los maridos traicionados». Todo es también, a su debido tiempo, descartado.

Alves y Compañía, escrita después de 1883 como parte de un proyectado ciclo de novelas cortas, es según algunos la «obra más inmoral» de Eça de Queirós. A partir de este minúsculo episodio conyugal, el genial novelista construye una punzante, distinguida, desencantada pero jamás amarga sátira de la dignidad burguesa: de cómo aparece, de cómo se mantiene, de cómo, cuando parece más viva, muere.]]> 126 Eça de Queirós 8484283410 Catarina 3 3.96 1925
author: Eça de Queirós
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1925
rating: 3
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]]> 2267195 32 Kate Chopin 078915479X Catarina 3 4.08 1894
author: Kate Chopin
name: Catarina
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1894
rating: 3
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]]> 18591167 256 Herman Koch 8580574188 Catarina 1 3.25 2009
author: Herman Koch
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.25
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]]> 2175257 In its portrayal of a small farming community facing the impact of the modern industrialized world, Cousin Phillis mirrors the changes that were occurring in society and is considered one of Elisabeth Gaskell's most mature works,]]> 157 Elizabeth Gaskell 0140621946 Catarina 4 3.43 1863
author: Elizabeth Gaskell
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.43
book published: 1863
rating: 4
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]]> 210200154 122 Layla Martínez 9726084555 Catarina 0 to-read 4.30 2021
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> 4961048 Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It's an incredible tale—from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.]]> 163 Carrie Fisher 1439102252 Catarina 0 to-read 3.80 2008
author: Carrie Fisher
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]]> 105609 256 Charmian Carr 0140298401 Catarina 0 to-read 4.04 2000
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> 346659
A deeply affecting biography of one of America's most brilliant and tormented stars, Scars of Sweet Paradise is also a vivid and incisive cultural history of an era that changed the world for us all.]]> 464 Alice Echols 0805053948 Catarina 0 to-read 3.81 1999
author: Alice Echols
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 326851 416 Brenda Maddox 0060985089 Catarina 0 to-read 4.11 2002
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]]> 234671 Book by Erickson, Carolly 528 Carolly Erickson 1861054726 Catarina 0 to-read 4.04 1978
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]]> 54529
A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China.]]> 278 Adeline Yen Mah 0767903579 Catarina 0 to-read 3.91 1997
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name: Catarina
average rating: 3.91
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]]> 298230 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.

Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family.

Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose. The cruelty with which the family treat her however, slowly but surely strips the heroine of all dignity and belief in humanity.

A tale of female bravery in the face of isolation and subjugation, Agnes Grey is a masterpiece claimed by Irish writer, George Moore, to be possessed of all the qualities and style of a Jane Austen title. Its simple prosaic style propels the narrative forward in a gentle yet rhythmic manner which continuously leaves the listener wanting to know more.

Anne Brontë, the somewhat lesser known sister, was in fact the first to finish and publish Agnes Grey under the pseudonym of Acton Bell. Charlotte and Emily followed shortly after with Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

As Anne passed away from what is now known to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of just 29, she only published one further title; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As feminist in nature as Agnes Grey, Anne's brave voice resonates and permeates during one of the most prejudiced and patriarchal times of English history.]]> 226 Anne Brontë 0140432108 Catarina 0 to-read 3.71 1847
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]]> 805654 The Steppe and Other Stories (2001) and The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (2002).]]> 55 Anton Chekhov 0141022167 Catarina 3 3.62 1887
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.62
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rating: 3
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]]> 13494948 265 Haruki Murakami 9896602018 Catarina 5
How glad I am for the absolute casual chance to have come across with this book!

I give it a 5 star rating not for the wonder of its writing - just casual and easy, although the plot folds beautifully - but for the emotions and memories and heart gripping moments it came to give me.

A nice little book on the various forms of loneliness and the way sometimes one rare person can briefly fill our lives with wonder and hope.

I really loved it!]]> 3.91 1999
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.91
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And here it is!: the power of a writer and the power of a book. The ability to get so deeply inside your soul that, no-matter where you are or where you come from, you feel suddenly enlightened and accompanied by the entire human species.

How glad I am for the absolute casual chance to have come across with this book!

I give it a 5 star rating not for the wonder of its writing - just casual and easy, although the plot folds beautifully - but for the emotions and memories and heart gripping moments it came to give me.

A nice little book on the various forms of loneliness and the way sometimes one rare person can briefly fill our lives with wonder and hope.

I really loved it!
]]> 1852 The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.]]> 172 Jack London Catarina 5 favorites
It’s about the love and respect to all living creatures, about loyalty and friendship, about finding your true essence no matter what.

I really did cry my eyes out!]]> 3.89 1903
author: Jack London
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.89
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Beautiful, sublime - it went straight to my all-time favourites!

It’s about the love and respect to all living creatures, about loyalty and friendship, about finding your true essence no matter what.

I really did cry my eyes out!
]]> 54455 200 Jack London 1598189727 Catarina 0 to-read 3.87 1907
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]]> 53641338 429 Elena Ferrante 855100591X Catarina 4 In some way or another she can reach all of us for a number of reasons. Common, personal, simple and indecorous daily living trivia that touch our hearts so much - what’s not to love about all that?!
She is a confort read, for sure!!!
]]> 3.85 2019
author: Elena Ferrante
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.85
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rating: 4
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This was my first Elena Ferrante read and I see the “Ferrante impact�� now:
In some way or another she can reach all of us for a number of reasons. Common, personal, simple and indecorous daily living trivia that touch our hearts so much - what’s not to love about all that?!
She is a confort read, for sure!!!

]]> 23791
The cook's wedding --
The witch --
A dead body --
Easter Eve --
On the road --
The dependents --
Grisha --
The kiss --
Typhus --
The pipe --
The princess --
Neighbours --
The grasshopper --
In exile --
Ward No. 6 --
Rothschild's fiddle --
The student --
The darling --
A doctor's visit --
Gooseberries --
The Lady with the dog --
In the ravine --
The bishop.]]> 400 Anton Chekhov 1593080034 Catarina 5 favorites 4.37 1892
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Catarina
average rating: 4.37
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]]> 50545945 168 9724616266 Catarina 2 3.83
author: Afonso Praça, Alice Vieira, Fernando Dacosta, Francisco Moita Flores, Francisco Simões, Guilherme de
name: Catarina
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]]> 16170660 4 Anton Chekhov Catarina 5 3.77 1886
author: Anton Chekhov
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]]> 286957
In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid�� wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.

A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.

First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

Excerpt:
Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.]]> 62 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1558611584 Catarina 0 4.11 1892
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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]]> 48037
But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day�� Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.]]> 108 J. Sheridan Le Fanu 0809510839 Catarina 0 to-read 3.88 1872
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]]> 780581 416 Guy de Maupassant 0140443150 Catarina 4 3.85 1885
author: Guy de Maupassant
name: Catarina
average rating: 3.85
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]]> 4806 Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea.

At the heart of Dava Sobel's fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and horology stands the figure of John Harrison, self-taught Yorkshire clockmaker, and his forty-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper. Battling against the establishment, Harrison stood alone in pursuit of his solution and the £20,000 reward offered by Parliament.]]> 184 Dava Sobel 0802714625 Catarina 0 to-read 3.97 1995
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]]> 53443227 WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.

In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s, and then he moves on, leaving her without a “master,�� bereft. Now, fifty years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame, humiliation, and betrayal, but also in self-discovery and self-reliance, lies the origin of her writing life.]]> 160 Annie Ernaux Catarina 4 4.01 2016
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Catarina
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 10927751


Lista completa dos contos incluídos neste livro:

-Jerusalem's Lot
-Turno da Noite
-Surf Nocturno
-Eu sou a porta da entrada
-A mutiladora
-O papão
-Matéria Cinzenta
-Campo de Batalha
-�䲹����õ���
-Às vezes eles voltam
-Primavera de morangos
-O friso
-O homem da cortadora de relva
-Quitters, Inc.
-Eu sei do que você precisa
-Filhos do milho
-O último degrau da escada
-O homem que amava as flores
-Um para o caminho
-A mulher no quarto]]> 562 Stephen King 9722521896 Catarina 0 to-read 3.91 1978
author: Stephen King
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]]> 36124936
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]> 561 Stephen King 1501180983 Catarina 0 to-read 3.98 2018
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]]> 59082040 109 Marie Louise de la Ramée Catarina 0 to-read 4.36 1872
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name: Catarina
average rating: 4.36
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]]> 61200256
Clara est coiffeuse dans une petite ville de Saône-et-Loire. Son quotidien, c’est une patronne mélancolique, un copain beau comme un prince de Disney, un chat qui ne se laisse pas caresser. Le temps passe au rythme des histoires du salon et des tubes diffusés par Nostalgie, jusqu’au jour où Clara rencontre l’homme qui va changer sa vie : Marcel Proust.]]> 192 Stéphane Carlier 2072991307 Catarina 0 to-read 3.61 2022
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name: Catarina
average rating: 3.61
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]]> 400608 Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.]]> 311 Doris Lessing 0007152817 Catarina 0 to-read 3.55 2003
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]]> 6288
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,�� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Catarina 0 to-read 3.99 2006
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name: Catarina
average rating: 3.99
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]]> 6451678 Fome, um romance marcante e considerado um clássico da literatura mundial, decorre nos finais do século XIX. O narrador, um jovem escritor, um homem solitário, deambula pelas ruas de Kristiania (actual Oslo) numa miséria extrema, enregelado pelo frio e tolhido pela fome. Essa miséria em que vive, provoca-lhe momentos de delírio e violentas variações de humor. Mas cedo nos apercebemos de que a “fome�� desse sonhador não é apenas física. Há a procura de uma identidade e de um reconhecimento dentro das suas próprias alucinações.]]> 256 Knut Hamsun 9896230927 Catarina 4 4.13 1890
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]]> 2956 327 Mark Twain 0142437174 Catarina 5 You (and Jim) stand for the best in humankind.]]> 3.82 1884
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I will forever be an admirer of yours, dear Huck!
You (and Jim) stand for the best in humankind.
]]> 48464
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
"The River"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
"A Stroke of Good Fortune"
"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"
"The Artificial Nigger"
"A Circle in the Fire"
"A Late Encounter with the Enemy"
"Good Country People"
"The Displaced Person"
©1955 Flannery O'Connor; 1954, 1953, 1948 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1983, 1981 by Regina O'Connor; renewed 1976 by Mrs. Edward F. O'Connor; (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.]]> 252 Flannery O'Connor 0151365040 Catarina 0 to-read 4.19 1955
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]]> 60973915 35 Alice Munro Catarina 3 2.82
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]]> 56197486 A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship

From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.

Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women.

Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir’s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.]]> 176 Simone de Beauvoir 0063075040 Catarina 5 4.06 2020
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]]> 49252 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them The Death of Halpin Frayser and The Damned Thing, and such tall tales as Oil of Dog and A Cargo of Cat.]]> 496 Ambrose Bierce 0803260717 Catarina 4 4.23 2000
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]]> 288518
The stories cover a wide range in terms of both how serious they are and how literal. Several discussions with animals and various supernatural beings take place, and the final chapter actually takes place after Munthe has died and includes his discussions with Saint Peter at the gates of Heaven. At no point does Munthe seem to take himself particularly seriously, but some of the things he discusses are very serious, such as his descriptions of rabies research in Paris, including euthanasia of human patients, and a suicide attempt by a man convinced he had been exposed to the disease.

Several of the most prominent figures in Munthe's life are not mentioned in Story of San Michele. His wife and children do not figure in the narrative; very little of his time in England is mentioned, even though he married a British woman, his children were largely raised in England, and he himself became a British citizen during the First World War. His decades-long service as personal physician and confidante to the Queen of Sweden is mentioned only in the most oblique terms; at one point, while naming her only as "she who must be mother to a whole nation", he mentions that she regularly brings flowers for the grave of one of her dogs buried at Villa San Michele, at another point, one of his servants is out walking his dogs, and encounters the Queen, who mentions having given the dog to Munthe.

Munthe published a few other reminiscences and essays during the course of his life, and some of them were incorporated into The Story of San Michele, which vastly overshadows all his other writing both in length and popularity. Notably, his accounts of working with a French ambulance corps during the First World War are not included.

World wide, the book was immensely successful; by 1930, there had been twelve editions of the English version alone, and Munthe added a second preface. A third preface was written in 1936 for an illustrated edition]]> 358 Axel Munthe 0719566991 Catarina 0 to-read 4.25 1929
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]]> 62794 Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.�� Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality, he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers the fate of Japan and his place within its deeply rooted propriety.

Confessions of a Mask reflects Mishima’s own coming of age in post-war Japan. Its publication in English―praised by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, and Christopher Isherwood―propelled the young Yukio Mishima to international fame.]]> 224 Yukio Mishima 0720610311 Catarina 0 to-read 4.02 1949
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]]> 1187919 Flaw��is Tulli’s most intense and personally motivated work to date, while still retaining the signature mind-and word-play so admired by critics and her growing readership.]]> 175 Magdalena Tulli 0979333016 Catarina 0 to-read 3.81 2006
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]]> 46041199 A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,�� she has recently left her white-collar desk job—in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time—as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women—alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.

In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist—a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her—from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child—to put them first.

Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planning�� birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance]]> 163 Cho Nam-Joo 1631496700 Catarina 4 4.17 2016
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]]> 56578549 Alice Munro Catarina 4 3.17
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]]> 11486
Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.]]> 295 Alice Walker Catarina 4 4.22 1982
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> 2103013 187 Miguel Delibes 8423309754 Catarina 0 to-read 3.96 1978
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]]> 6491797
«Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sentado en la tarde del 23 de febrero de 1981, mientras las balas de los golpistas zumbaban a su alrededor en el hemiciclo del Congreso de los Diputados y todos los demás parlamentarios -todos menos dos: el general Gutiérrez Mellado y Santiago Carrillo- buscaban refugio bajo sus escaños. Este libro es la crónica de ese gesto y la crónica de un golpe de estado y la crónica de unos años decisivos en la historia de España. Este libro es un libro inclasificable. Un libro único.» Javier Cercas]]> 480 Javier Cercas 8439722133 Catarina 0 to-read 4.11 2009
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]]> 23859 213 Javier Cercas 1582344728 Catarina 5 3.76 2001
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]]> 651934 272 Imre Madách 9631345335 Catarina 0 to-read 4.20 1860
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]]> 323455 188 Oscar Wilde Catarina 4 4.25 1897
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]]> 220189 A Penguin Classic

It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible . Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, the parable-like drama centers on David Beeves, a man whose every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble before him with ease. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the tragedies of those around him in greater relief, offering what David believes to be evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David’s journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700��titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the��series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date��translations by award-winning translators.]]> 83 Arthur Miller 0142437867 Catarina 0 to-read 3.71 1940
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]]> 1294375
Considered a high-water mark by the author, the story is an extraordinarily black vision of a young wife who gradually begins to understand that her husband will accept nothing less than total intellectual and emotional servitude.]]> 336 Elizabeth von Arnim 0860683168 Catarina 0 to-read 3.89 1921
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]]> 31670910 50 Oscar Wilde 178000852X Catarina 5 3.90 1892
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I take my hat off to you, Oscar Wilde!!!!
]]> 35165839 168 John Steinbeck 9723829991 Catarina 0 to-read 3.87 1943
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]]> 854456 He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clarimonde, and this news of her death, in addition to the pain it caused me by reason of its coincidence with the nocturnal scenes I had witnessed, filled me with an agony and terror which my face betrayed.

A terrifying tale by Gautier written in first person. It narrates the story of a young priest, Romuald, who falls in love with a mysterious woman called Clarimonde. He goes through strange experiences after meeting her and she haunts him in his dreams. The author has captured the desires, emotions and feelings of the priest brilliantly. Spine-chilling!]]> 48 Théophile Gautier 1419128914 Catarina 0 to-read 3.78 1836
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]]> 338798
According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain.

The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. Since its publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual "Joyce Wars." The novel's stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—replete with puns, parodies, and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history; Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday.']]> 783 James Joyce Catarina 0 currently-reading 3.72 1922
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Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.]]> 52 Robert Louis Stevenson 1600964168 Catarina 4 3.71 1891
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]]> 6366018 82 Oscar Wilde Catarina 5 3.83 1896
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]]> 83017 198 Dino Buzzati 1567923046 Catarina 5 favorites 4.24 1940
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]]> 11936310 A Divina Comédia de Dante Alighieri divide-se em três partes: o Inferno, o Purgatório e o Paraíso. Não há uma datação exacta da obra, mas presume-se que terá sido escrita entre 1304 e 1321, ano da morte de Dante.

A Divina Comédia foi escrita em língua toscana - muito próxima do que hoje se designa por italiano - num registo vulgar, portanto, por oposição ao uso generalizado do latim na escrita culta. Tornou-se, assim, a obra fundadora da língua italiana moderna.

Em Portugal, A Divina Comédia chegou a um universo de leitores alargado através da inexcedível tradução de Vasco Graça Moura. Com oito edições desde a sua primeira publicação, é, no nosso país, um fenómeno de sucesso e popularidade.]]> 896 Dante Alighieri 9725649427 Catarina 0 currently-reading 4.10 1320
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]]> 159359321 O Polaco conta a história de Witold Walczykiewicz, um virtuoso pianista polaco, intérprete de Chopin, que fica enfeitiçado por Beatriz, uma patrona das artes espanhola, depois de esta ajudar na organização do seu concerto em Barcelona.

Beatriz é casada e, de início, não se deixa impressionar, mas rapidamente se vê perseguida pelo pianista e arrastada para o seu mundo. Witold envia-lhe cartas, faz-lhe inúmeros convites para viajar e acaba por visitá-la na casa de verão do marido, em Maiorca, onde a relação improvável entre os dois começa a florescer, embora apenas nos termos estipulados por ela. Mas à medida que a luta pelo poder entre eles se intensifica, É Beatriz que limita a paixão ao controlar as suas emoções? Ou é Witold, ao tentar por todos os meios dar vida ao seu sonho de amor?

Diferenças de gostos, diferenças culturais, diferenças de é sobre estas tensões que se desenvolve esta variação moderna e irónica da lendária história de amor de Dante e Beatriz. Para isso, Coetzee faz uma mudança radical e conta-nos os sucessos e fracassos deste amor a partir da perspetiva precisa, sincera e incisiva da sua protagonista feminina.]]> 160 J.M. Coetzee 9722076132 Catarina 5 3.67 2023
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]]> 2689809
AS MENTIRAS QUE OS HOMENS CONTAM, uma selecao de cronicas garimpadas de varias publicacoes do autor, e o primeiro livro da colecao Ver!ssimo. Num dos contratos mais importantes do mercado editorial brasileiro, deste ano, a Objetiva adquiriu os direitos de edicao de toda a obra de Luis Fernando Verissimo. Mais de 25 titulos serao reorganizados pela editora e lancados ao longo dos proximos anos. Personagens e historias serao revistos e atualizados pelo proprio autor, novos titulos serao criados e outros resgatados para o leitor.

Classicos como A velhinha de Taubate, O analista de Bage, As comedias da vida privada, e livros pouco conhecidos do publico contemporaneo, como Sexo na cabeca, O suicida e o computador, A grande mulher nua e O popular, seu primeiro romance, lancado em 1973, estarao de volta a cena, junto com outras publicacoes que trazem a marca genial do autor.Para a colecao, o designer Ricardo Leite, da Pos Imagem Design, criou a logomarca Ver!ssimo e um boneco do autor, concebido originalmente como uma escultura de barro e depois fotografado para ilustrar as capas. "Quando optamos por fazer um bonequinho, nossa intencao foi criar uma unidade visual para a serie e fazer com que Verissimo, uma figur]]> 166 Luis Fernando Verissimo Catarina 3 3.72 2000
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