NARRADO POR CACO CIOCLER “Liberdade é a liberdade de dizer que dois mais dois são quatro. Se isso for concedido, tudo o mais se segue”. Em um Estado totalitário onde...
A Revolução dos Bichos
NARRADO POR LUIZ FERNANDO GUIMARÃES Os animais da Fazenda do Solar, comandada pelo sr. Jones, se dão conta da vida indigna a que estão submetidos: eles se matam de trabalhar...
In The Year Of The Jubilee
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Gissing’s "In the Year of the Jubilee" (1834) depicts the...
The Odd Women
Before he was 21 George Gissing conceived the ambition of writing a long series of novels, somewhat in the manner of Balzac, whom he admired. The first of these, Workers in the...
O Estoicismo
Neste volume introdutório, o ilustre professor de Oxford George Stock proporciona um panorama esclarecedor a respeito do estoicismo, escola filosófica helenística mais...
In The Year Of Jubilee
The story of the romantic and sexual initiation of a suburban heroine, Nancy Lord which Gissing wrote after his return from Exeter. He took lodgings with his second wife at 76...
Denzil Quarrier
Denzil Quarrier, a successful, active man, becomes a candidate for Parliament, and, in the moment of triumph, is stricken by the treachery of his best friend, the meaningless...
Will Warburton
A young wealthy gentleman looses everything in speculation and is forced into a humble life of a grocer. He finds his circumstances tragic at first and keeps his fate secret from...
The Odd Women
Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they...
Thyrza
Thyrza Trent, a young hat-trimmer, meets and falls in love with Walter Egremont, an Oxford-trained idealist who gives lectures on literature to workers. Trapped by birth and...
