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À margem da história foi a primeira das obras póstumas de Euclides da Cunha, tentando recolher os muitos textos esparsos e inéditos do autor após sua morte inesperada e violenta. A maior parte do livro se compõe das anotações feitas pelo autor para um livro, nunca terminado, acerca da Amazônia, a ser intitulado "Paraíso Perdido", mas que foi publicado nesta coletânea sob o título "Terra Sem História". No volume encontram-se também compilados outros estudos variados sobre o Brasil. - Summary by Leni

“O Abolicionismo” é uma das obras mais importantes para a abolição da escravatura, no Brasil. Ela propõe, como tarefa imediata para a época, a emancipação dos escravos e seus filhos, bem como a tarefa da anulação dos efeitos de um regime que por três séculos criou e alimentou situações que destroçaram o espírito de Justiça e Humanidade. Ou seja, esta obra de Joaquim Nabuco, abolicionista, monarquista, jurista, historiador, diplomata, poeta e jornalista brasileiro, foi escrita e publicada em 1883 e pregava o fim da situação do negro no Brasil de então. Pregava também que...

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published just 4 years before his death, this was the last time he chose works from throughout his career, in an effort to show the diversity of his style and the breadth and depth of his interests. (Introduction by John Greenman & Wikipedia )

Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tries to win the hand of his love, Octavia.(Summary by Jennifer Stearns)

What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which person really wins--the pursued or the pursuer. Or perhaps which one is now the pursuer, which the pursued. - Summary by Bill Boerst

This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

This is a young person's biography of Abigail Adams that will appeal to readers of all ages. In the author's own words, "I am not writing a history; far from it. I am merely throwing on the screen, in the fashion of today, a few scenes to make a background for my little pen-picture-play. " - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journalist Heywood Broun followed the AEF and reported on their experiences. He published these sketches in book form in 1918. This project is part of the ongoing commemoration by LibriVox volunteers of the centenary of World War I. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Een waargebeurd verhaal uit Nederlands Indië. Adam Silver, kind van een Engelsman en een inlandse vrouw, wordt verstoten uit de blanke gemeenschap en bekeert zich tot de Islam. Het verhaal is oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd onder het pseudoniem Maurits als feuilleton in het Indische Vaderland - Marcel Coenders

This how-to book includes chapters on getting ready, mapping the garden, planting, seeds, early work, house plants, fruits, hot beds and cold frames, and small gardens. There is even a chapter "expressly for women." - Summary by Bill Boerst

Compilation of 20 Science Fiction Short Stories - Summary by Kirk Ziegler

This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems. - Summary by Carolin

As the title indicates, here are three SF stories by Frank Herbert, Missing LInk, originaly purlished in Astounding SF, 1959; Operation Haystack, also published in Astounding SF 1959; and Old Rambling House, published in Galaxy SF 1958. - Summary by Phil chenevert

This is a small booklet of recipes featuring Franco American products produced as a promotional piece by the Campbell Soup Company, but containing many tasty suggestions for quick, economical meals. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Cakes and more cakes! All of these ten recipes promote the use of Homogenized Spry Shortening. From Chocolate Rapture Cake to Hawaiian Lei Cake, and chapters on frosting, you'll find some luscious offerings for the whole family. - Summary by Larry Wilson

The Old Testament, translated by an American committee lead by S.H. Hooke, using Basic English, a simplified English vernacular developed by linguist Charles Kay Ogden for use in teaching English to non-native speakers and as an international auxiliary language. Basic English utilizes a limited vocabulary of around 850 English words. - Summary by Mark Penfold

A book for students interested in finding out how many things about the English language have changed, and how many have weathered the test of time. - Summary by jasonb

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

What can be said? It's the ASV Bible, copyrighted 1901 by Thomas Nelson & Sons. I have previously recorded the New Living Translation of the Bible and would now like to do this version in order to make the Holy Scriptures more available on LibriVox.

La Divina Commedia, originalmente Commedìa, è un poema di Dante Alighieri, capolavoro del poeta fiorentino, considerata la più importante testimonianza letteraria della civiltà medievale e una delle più grandi opere della letteratura universale.È diviso in tre parti chiamate cantiche: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso; il poeta immagina di compiervi un viaggio ultraterrenoIl poema, pur continuando i modi caratteristici della letteratura e dello stile medievali (ispirazione religiosa, fine morale, linguaggio e stile basati sulla percezione visiva e immediata delle cose), tende a una ...