Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas (De Assis Joaquim Maria Machado)(Paperback)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas (Machado De Assis Joaquim Maria)(Paperback)

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas A Penguin Classic The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed

Epitaph of a Small Winner (de Assis Machado)(Paperback)

In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges,

Epitaph of a Small Winner (Assis Machado de)(Paperback / softback)

'One of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature The kind of humour that makes skulls smile' Salman

death in Brazil (Robb Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Using the art, food and the books of Brazils nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, this work is about its history of slavery and the multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth

The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Wood Marcus)(Pevná vazba)

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (De Beauvoir Simone)(Paperback)

'[Beauvoir's] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman.' --TimeA superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an

Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico (de Chirico Giorgio)(Paperback)

No Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later painters, particularly during his 'metaphysical' period, is vast. De

Happy Odyssey (Carton de Wiart Adrian)(Paperback)

Adrian Carton de Wiart's autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs. He was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a trooper in the South African War. Carton de Wiart's extraordinary military career embraced service with

This Thing of Darkness (De Maria Fiorella)(Paperback)

The Rock Eaters: Stories (Peynado Brenda)(Paperback)

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to

In the Dream House: A Memoir (Machado Carmen Maria)(Paperback)

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of

Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls (Maggi Humberto)(Paperback)

A personal, practical, and historical work, Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls is a detailed account of the life and death of the Spanish queen Mar a de Padilla, her rise to popularity in the witchcraft of Spain and Portugal, and her later migration with the exiled witches to Brazil where she

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800 (de Chateaubriand Franois-Ren)(Paperback)

Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneAL de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb (Chateaubriand Francois-Rene de)(Paperback / softback)

The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time he came to write his extraordinary, highly entertaining memoirs, Chateaubriand had witnessed some of the iconic figures and events of French history--from the court of Louis XVI, to the reign of

Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings: Poverty, Public Welfare, and Inequality (de Tocqueville Alexis)(Paperback)

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir, a letter fragment considering pauperism in Normandy, and the ''Pauperism in America'' index to the Penitentiary Report.Alexis de Tocqueville was one of

Manuscripts on Purgatory: As Seen by Two Mystics (Marie De La Croix Sister)(Paperback)

Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory, by Sister M. de L.C. Treatise on Purgatory, by St. Catherine of GenoaThe kindness of God provides us with all the grace and knowledge we need to arrive at that eternal Beatitude to which he calls each one of us. Occasionally, he even bestows extraordinary

Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise (Clegg Melanie)(Paperback)

Although Mary, Queen of Scots continues to fascinate both historians and the general public alike, the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own right, she was born into the powerful and ambitious Lorraine family, spending her formative years at the

The Squatter and the Don (Burton Maria Amparo Ruiz de)(Paperback)

A historical romance with an activist heart, and an impassioned critique of U.S. expansionism--with an introduction by Ana Castillo, author of So Far from God A fiercely partisan novel based on the author's own experiences, The Squatter and the Don follows two families living near San Diego shortly

The Sleeping Witness: A Father Gabriel Mystery (De Maria Fiorella)(Paperback)

In this unusual murder mystery, the tranquility of Saint Mary's Abbey is shattered by the discovery of a gruesome crime in a cottage on the abbey grounds. A foreign artist and war hero seeking refuge from the world has been murdered. Marie Paige, the frail, sickly wife of the village doctor, lies