Si potrebbe chiamare un romanzo epistolare: è un misto di pagine di diario e di lettere che il protagonista, Rinaldo Morelli, un estimatore del poeta latino Orazio, scrive durante un’estate a Corsenna, un ameno paesello toscano in collina, frequentato da diversi villeggianti dai quali il nostro cerca di tenersi bene alla larga. Ma saranno loro ad andare in cerca di lui e a riempire la pagine dei suoi scritti… soprattutto una certa Galatea.

From the author of Peter Pan:

Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly disapproves of this.

Loam, his family, a maid, and Crichton are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge. Eventually, social roles are reversed, and Crichton becomes the governor.

Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma é um romance do pré-modernismo brasileiro e considerado por alguns o principal representante desse movimento.

Escrito por Lima Barreto, foi levado a público pela primeira vez em folhetins, publicados, entre Agosto e Outubro de 1911, na edição da tarde do Jornal do Commercio do Rio de Janeiro. Em 1915, também no Rio de Janeiro, a obra foi pela primeira vez impressa em livro, em edição do autor.

O romance discute principalmente a questão do nacionalismo, mas também fala do abismo existente entre as pessoas idealistas e aquelas que se preocupam apenas com seus interesses e com sua vida comum. Com uma narrativa leve que em alguns pontos chega a s...

Lima Barreto começou a sua colaboração na imprensa desde estudante, em 1902, no A Quinzena Alegre, depois no Tagarela, O Diabo, e na Revista da Época.

Em jornais de maior circulação, começou em 1905, escrevendo no Correio da Manhã uma série de reportagens sobre a demolição do Morro do Castelo.

Daí em diante, colaborou em vários jornais e revistas, Fon-Fon, Floreal, Gazeta da Tarde, Jornal do Commercio, Correio da Noite, A Noite (onde publicou, em folhetim, Numa e a Ninfa), Careta, ABC, um novo A Lanterna (vespertino), Brás Cubas (semanário), Hoje, Revista Souza Cruz e O Mundo Literário.

Lima Barreto foi o crítico mais agudo da época da República Velha no Brasil, rompe...

Robert Barr (1849 - 1912) was a Scottish Journalist, editor, humorist and author. A Prince of Good Fellows was published in 1902, and is a series of Historical Fiction stories about the young James V, King of Scots (1512 – 1542). The chapters are full of humor and adventure and portrays a young King who is both wise and adventurous.

"This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them "house names". The "name" of the author who wrote this tale is Richard Barnum. It became very successful, the most well known of Richard Barnum's tales. So, if you want to laugh a little, even if you are not a child, read this book".

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal reminiscences, and much more.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.(br />His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," and his personal aims were "to put money in his own coffers". (Reference: Wikipedia.org)

A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era.

The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned. The 'Stewponey' too was an inn until a year or two into the twenty-first century - the present reader having stopped there for a drink and a meal many times.

The story, whether you call it a romance, a historical novel or a horror story - comprising as it does a young woman being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen an...