Blindness (Harvest Book)
 Amazon.com Review: In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught [... more]
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Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems
Author: Carlos Drummond De Andrade Author: Carlos Drummond De Andrade Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 869.1 EAN: 9780880014342 ISBN: 0880014342 Number Of Pages: 134 Publication Date: 1995-12 [... more]
$13.00
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Veronika Decides to Die
Amazon.com Review: When Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) was a young man, his parents had him committed to mental hospitals three times because he wanted to be an artist--an unacceptable profession in Brazil at the time. During his numerous forced [... more]
$24.00
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The Illustrated Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your ...
the Pictures enhance the Story: This is an amazing book. It is a story of a young man who has a dream of hidden treasure. It is a book that alludes to that fact that all of us have a purpose and a dream. Yet many settle and give up their dream, and lose [... more]
$27.95
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The Alchemist
Amazon.com Review: Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a [... more]
$19.95
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The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
The Book of Pretentiousness: Nothing can prepare you for this work. No one in the history of literature has written with more pretentiousness and self-indulgence. How Pessoa can present himself as both pathetic and heroic at the same time is a miracle of [... more]
$17.00
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Blindness
Amazon.com Review: In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught [... more]
$25.00
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The Tale of the Unknown Island
Amazon.com Review: "A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat." Even without the "Once upon a time," it's clear from the opening sentence of José Saramago's mischievous and wise The Tale of the Unknown [... more]
$16.00
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Imaginative and Provocative: This is a wonderful work of fiction that is creatively devised and unique. It is certainly, as has previously been forewarned by others, not for the devout reader who will take offense when faced with a work of fiction that [... more]
$15.00
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Quincas Borba (Library of Latin America)
A poignant satire of 19th century Brazil: "Quincas Borba" is one of a series of fine novels by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. The author, who died in 1908, is one of the major figures of 19th century South American literature. [... more]
$25.00
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The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)
A question of timing: Had Camoens been "Englishened" shortly after his own lifetime, no doubt some English translator could have grasped the proper tone, meter and spirit for his work to be presented in English grab. However, since he died in 15 [... more]
$12.95
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Dom Casmurro (Library of Latin America)
Amazon.com Review: The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions. Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento [... more]
$25.00
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