“É uma pena que a melhor parte da vida aconteça no princípio, e a pior, no final.” — MARK TWAIN No ano de 1860, em Baltimore, nos Estados Unidos, nasce Benjamin Button,...

Sybil is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of...

“É uma pena que a melhor parte da vida aconteça no princípio, e a pior, no final.” — MARK TWAIN No ano de 1860, em Baltimore, nos Estados Unidos, nasce Benjamin Button,...

Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes...

Ferdinand Armine is the scion of an aristocratic Catholic family, which can trace its roots back to the time of William the Conqueror. Ferdinand had an idyllic but isolated...

Tancred, Lord Montacute, the novel's idealistic young hero, seems destined to live the life of a conventional member of the British ruling class. Dissatisfied with his life in...

A lightweight romantic fantasy in which Lord Byron and Shelley figure in its pages, under different names and different worldly circumstances from those in which they actually...

The novel follows the life and career of Henry Coningsby, the orphan grandson of a wealthy marquess, Lord Monmouth. Lord Monmouth initially disapproved of Coningsby's parents'...

Acusado de negligência médica após cometer um erro na sala de cirurgia e sofrer um acidente de carro em que sua esposa morre, dr. Benjamín é acusado de assassinato e perde a...

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders...