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Paulo Coelho
Brida (Portuguese Edition)
by Rocco (Unknown Binding)

This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about the spiritual world. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world; and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world, and how to pray to the moon. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. This enthralling novel incorporates themes that fans of Paulo Coelho will recognize and treasure—it is a tale of love, passion, mystery, and spirituality from the master storyteller.

R.A. Salvatore
The Hunter's Blades Trilogy Gift Set
by Wizards of the Coast (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-08-28)

Drizzt at his scimitar-slashing best!When Drizzt believes that his friends have been killed, trampled under the feet of a rampaging horde of orcs, the Hunter takes over and the already dangerous dark elf goes feral. Alone in the wilderness against an enemy that outnumbers him thousands to one, the lone drow is the most dangerous being in the unforgiving mountains of the frigid North. But is he as dangerous to himself, as he is to the orcs in his sights?This deluxe gift set includes the books The Thousand Orcs, The Lone Drow, and The Two Swords.

Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)
by Luso-Brazilian Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-02-04)

Jose da Fonseca, Pedro Carolino
English As She Is Spoke (Portuguese Edition)
by Mcsweeneys Books (Hardcover)

In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: The didn't know any English. All they had was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train wreck that ensued is a classic of unintentional humor, now revived in the first newly selected edition in a century.

Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (Texas Pan American Series) (Spanish Edition)
by University of Texas Press (Paperback)

Latin Americans have written some of the world's finest poetry in the twentieth century, as the Nobel Prizes awarded to Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz attest. Yet this rich literary production has never been gathered into a single volume that attempts to represent the full range and the most important writers--until now. Here, under one cover, are the major poets and their major works, which appear both in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) and in excellent English translations. The poems selected include the most famous representative poems of each poetic tradition, accompanied by other poems that represent the best of that tradition and of each poet's work within it. Tapscott's selections cover the full range, from the Modernist generation though the Mexican Revolutionary post-Moderns and the Vanguardist poets to very contemporary younger writers of political and experimental commitments. In all, eighty-five poets, including Pablo Neruda, Nicanor ...

An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (Portuguese Edition)
by Wesleyan University Press (Hardcover)

In Portuguese and English.

Fernando Pessoa
Message
by Shearsman Books (Paperback)

Message ("Mensagem") was the only book of verse in his own language that Pessoa saw through the press in his lifetime. On the face of it, a patriotic sequence steeped in 'Sebastianismo', the poems offer much more than this, the Kings and navigators of the Portugal's history standing as avatars of the poet's self, their explorations and heroic deeds projections of the poet's inner creative life. Although Pessoa is famous for the many heteronyms under which he composed verse in wildly different styles, this volume was published under his own name - the 'orthonym', as he defined it - and it remains one of his great masterpieces. This edition brings Jonathn Griffin's fine translation (originally published by the Menard Press in 1992) back into print, as part of Shearsman's Pessoa edition.

Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquietude by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (Aspects of Portugal)
by Sheep Meadow (Paperback)

complete edition Pessoa's posthumous masterpiece

Camilo Castelo Branco
Amor De Perdicao (Classicos da Literatura Portuguesa)
by Luso-Brazilian Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-09-23)

Perhaps the height of Portuguese romanticism, Amor de Perdição is a Portuguese Romeo and Juliet. Simão Botelho and Teresa are hopelessly in love, but their families are rivals in Viseu. When Teresa’s father, Tadeu, discovers their love, he shuts her in a convent. But, while trying to see his beloved, Simão kills Baltasar, and eventually condemned to death. The sentence is commuted to 10 years of service in India, but before the sentence is executed, both Teresa and Simão die of broken hearts.

Machado de Assis
O Alienista (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)
by Luso-Brazilian Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-08-02)

A sarcastic criticism of the science of its day, O Alientista tells the story of psychiatrist Simão Bacamarte, who convinces the town of Itaguaí to pay for an assylum, and begins to fill it with residents he believes insane. While the assylum at first has a few patients, it grows quickly until, after a revolt by many in the town is fought off, it includes 4/5ths of the town! Realizing something is wrong, Bacamarte releases those committed saying that those committed are infact normal. Instead, he concludes, the insane are those who are considered normal or exemplary. Then his friends convince him that he is, in fact, exemplary. . .

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