Maria A Machado

Construindo Uma Cidade: Historia De Caxias Do Sul, 1875-1950

Trabalhadores De Saude Em Numeros

Reproducao Humana Assistida: Controversias eticas E Juridicas

Os Medicos No Brasil: Um Retrato Da Realidade

Profissoes De Saude: Uma Abordagem Sociologica

Teatro V

Teatro IV

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis the free ...

Joaquim Mario Machado de Assis often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (June 21, 1839 September 29, 1908), was a...

Ana Maria Machado

Ana Maria Machado (born 24 December 1941) is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth...

Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira)

One of the greatest novels of Brazilian Literature, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man who recounts the amorous misadventures of his unheroic life and explains his half-hearted political ambitions. While it is considered the first novel of Brazilian realism, its quirks seem re...

Dom Casmurro (Library of Latin America)

"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an...

O Dragão Verde (Portuguese Edition)

O dragão verde (The Green Dragon) reminds us of the story of the boy David against the giant Goliath.In Maria Clara Machado's book, David is the gardener Pedrinho in love with the princess Filosel Aurora. And Goliath is a monstrous green Dragon, enemy of the city that Pedrinho must defeat in order t...

What a Party!

If it is just a few days until your birthday, and your mother says you can invite anyone you like to come over to play, be careful! If you don’t watch out, you might soon be having the craziest party ever. Before you know it, night could come and go and a new day could begin, and the dancing might s...

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Library of Latin America)

"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest ...

A Machado de Assis Anthology (New Translations of Brazilian Classics)

A Machado de Assis Anthology is a new translation of 17 short stories by classic Brazilian author Machado de Assis. They include Midnight Mass, The Fortuneteller, The Secret Cause, A Famous Man and The Nurse.For new editions of Brazilian classics, look for the New Translations of Brazilian Classics ...

Nina Bonita (Children's Books from Around the World)

This beautiful and charming story deals with a sensitive subject in a sensitive way. "Black is beautiful" to a little white rabbit and while trying to discover the secret that will make him black, readers get a funny, yet educational introduction to genetics. Full color.

The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Accompanied by a thorough introduction to "Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil", these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers.