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Livro é um manual de treinamento leigo em oito semanas para o despertar da potência da vida em cada um de nós Este guia dirige-se àqueles que sentem a necessidade de mudar seu caminho nesta vi

Esta estória é sobre uma criança sensível, amante e protetora de animais.Se desenvolve em um ambiente sadio e no seio de uma família amorosa e equilibrada.Aline, a nossa personagem principal, mesmo com sua tenra idade, se desdobra para assistir seus amiguinhos gatos em diversos momentos.Uma estoria que convida o leitor infantil, juvenil ou adulto a viajarem num mundo de bondade praticada por uma criança.Em um mundo onde o amor e o altruismo so escassos, veremos nessa bela narrativa exemplos de tais sentimentos sendo demonstrados na mais pura essencia por nossa personagem.Vamos viajar no mundo de Aline, a menina dos gatos?

Ele tinha uma vida comum — até que tudo desmoronou. Uma simples consulta médica marca o início de uma transformação inesperada. Em meio ao ambiente clínico, vozes estranhas comentam detalhes íntimos

No coração da Zona Leste de São Paulo, entre os becos do Cangaíba e as curvas da Penha, nasceu um menino com os pés inquietos e os olhos cheios de sonho. Cresceu numa casa simples, dividida entre sei

O escritor J. B. de Souza Freitas [...] resgata com muito humor o tempo em que se vendiam revistas de "mulher pelada", com histórias de sacanagem supostamente escritas por bons literatos do mercado, em trabalho extra sob pseudonimo, para no se comprometerem. Os juizes de menores obrigavam que as revistas fossem envelopadas em involucros de plastico leitoso, como se a arte tivesse que ser vestida. Em tempos de inteligencia artificial, o autor lança no mercado livreiro, no uma obra de mulher pelada, mas uma obra literaria usando cronicas ao estilo da epoca, com fino humor. Genial. Quando se começa a ler, no da vontade de parar.

Este livro enfatiza a aplicação da Matemática Financeira, especialmente voltada ao sistema de capitalização composto e à análise de viabilidade econômica de investimentos, com base nos princípios da

Como correlacionar o conhecimento dos chakras, sendo médico espírita e formado dentro de uma visão determinista, ao paradigma espiritualista oriental, com sua perspectiva transdimensional? Com base n

Produzido pelo VoteLGBT, Cuidado e coragem: a violência política LGBTfóbica no Brasil apresenta dados inéditos, análises interseccionais e testemunhos sobre a violência política de gênero e raça que

O Senhor Jesus, quando esteve aqui na Terra, fez uma promessa aos Seus discípulos de que partiria, mas voltaria para buscá-los (João 14).

Happy Healthy Sober will inspire you to look at your relationship with alcohol and encourage you to ditch the booze to live your best life. Have you woken up at 3 a.m. berating yourself for drinking too much? Have you tried ditching the booze without success?In this book, Janey provides a personal, unique and most importantly fun guide to having a fabulous alcohol free life. She gives you the keys to making sobriety and a healthy lifestyle cool, memorable and tremendously appealing.Happy Healthy Sober is a fantastic resource for an alcohol-free life, Janeys holistic approach allows you to connect to whats important to your mind, heart, body and soul.The first 30 days of sobriety are the most difficult. This book will help you stay on track.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Huck and the enslaved Jim down the Mississippi in a picaresque, first-person narrative whose colloquial idiom reshaped American prose. Through feuds, cons, and Hucks resolve to "go to hell" for Jim, Twain marries satire to realism, exposing antebellum hypocrisy while turning the river into a mobile stage for moral testing. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), a Missourian raised in the slaveholding river town of Hannibal, drew on his years as a Mississippi steamboat pilot and on journalistic craft. After Tom Sawyer, he redirected nostalgic play into corrosive inquiry, using dialect and episodic structure to probe race, authority, and the distortions of romantic sentiment. Recommended to readers of American literature and ethics alike, this novel rewards close attention with humor, velocity, and unsettling clarity. Approach it for its lively voice; stay for its searching meditation on freedom, complicity, and conscience. Despite controversies over language, it remains an essential, deeply generative text for classrooms and independent readers.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Wuthering Heights (1847) fuses Gothic ferocity with Romantic sublimity in a daring frame-tale. Through Lockwoods and Nelly Deans layered testimonies, Bronte charts the interdependence of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff across two generations at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Temporal loops, unreliable narrators, and vernacular textures entwine grief, revenge, and property, while the Yorkshire moorselemental, indifferentshape fate. Its audacious design and metaphysical intensity challenged Victorian realism, redefining the domestic Gothic of passion, class antagonism, and inheritance. Emily Bronte, the reclusive daughter of the Haworth parsonage, honed a fierce lyric sensibility in juvenilia and poetry before publishing as "Ellis Bell." The isolation of the Pennine moors, family losses, and her self-education yielded an imagination at once inward and elemental. Living amid stringent class and gender codes, she forged a vision that interrogates power, kinship, and possession. Essential for students of Victorian fiction and all readers of psychological Gothic, this novel rewards rereading: its polyphonic testimony unsettles judgment, and its storm-lit cadences linger. Come for the love story; stay for a radical meditation on selfhood, family, property, and place.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is a taut two-part novella that assaults the eras rational egoism and utilitarian optimism. In Part One, the unnamed Underground Man delivers a jagged, self-lacerating monologue, wielding paradox against deterministic science and social engineering. Part Two, Apropos of the Wet Snow, stages his ideas as lived humiliation: petty clashes with former schoolmates and a cruel exchange with Liza expose the costs of corrosive self-consciousness. The prose shifts from sardonic wit to feverish confession, perfecting an unreliable, dialectical form that anticipates modernist interiority and existential inquiry. Dostoevsky composed the book amid crisis and polemic: recently returned from Siberian imprisonment and exile, afflicted by epilepsy, and grieving his wife and brother, he confronted the prestige of positivism and the utopian schemes of Chernyshevsky. Experience among convicts supplied psychological depth, while fierce theological debate and Petersburgs bureaucratic labyrinth shaped its moral topography. For readers of philosophy and fiction alike, this brief yet inexhaustible work is indispensable. It rewards close study of freedom, rationality, and selfhood, and serves as a bracing antidote to facile systems as well as a prologue to the authors later masterpieces.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Smolletts The Adventures of Roderick Random is a ferocious picaresque that hurls its Scottish hero through ships decks, gaming rooms, hospitals, and London drawing rooms, exposing the venality of patronage and the precariousness of rank. Episodic and closely observed, the narrative mixes comic brio with clinical detailespecially in its naval and medical scenesand lively blends of cant and colloquial English. Written in the early Georgian moment alongside Richardson and Fielding, it adapts the Spanish picaro to British conditions, trading pastoral sentiment for corrosive social satire. Smollett, a trained surgeon and a Scot by formation, had served as a naval surgeons mate in the Caribbean during the War of Jenkins Ear, experience that furnished the novels vivid sea passages and its rage at bureaucratic cruelty. His years in Grub Street London sharpened his sense of literary marketplace and marginal lives; the tenderness he affords Strap and the poised Narcissa tempers his invective with humane sympathy. Readers seeking a vivid map of eighteenth-century Britainits ships, streets, and shamswill find this novel bracing and wise. Essential for students of the picaresque, maritime history, and the English novel, it offers satire that still cuts.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Ben Jonsons The Devil is an Ass (1616) is a scintillating city comedy in which Pug, a minor devil, descends on Jacobean London only to discover that human projectors, gallants, and gulls outstrip Hell in invention. The action circles the credulous Fitzdottrel, exploited by the patent-monger Meercraft and outmaneuvered by the witty Wittipol, who even cross-dresses as a Spanish lady to test virtue and vanity. Written for the Kings Men at Blackfriars, the play blends Jonsons classical architectonics with bustling urban satire, targeting monopolies, fashion, and courtly imposture. A poet-scholar steeped in Camdens Westminster pedagogy, Jonson married learned design to sharp moral purpose. His service as court masque-maker for James I and his experience of Londons entrepreneurial "projects," as well as brushes with censorship, inform the plays skepticism toward novelty and privilege. Contemporary with his 1616 folio, The Devil is an Ass displays a laureate claiming the city stage while anatomizing the economieslegal and infernalof his age. Readers of early modern drama will relish its ingenious plotting, quicksilver prose, and topical bite. Whether approached for performance or study, this play rewards attention with comic exuberance and acute social diagnosis, showcasing Jonson at once urbane, erudite, and unsparingly exact.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A dense, architectonic treatise, Leviathan offers an anatomy of the commonwealth, opening with an account of human psychologyendeavors and aversions, power, passionswithin a mechanistic philosophy; from this Hobbes derives the state of nature as war of every man against every man and the rational laws of nature culminating in the social contract and submission to an undivided sovereign, by institution or acquisition. Combining geometrical definitions with polemical eloquence and scriptural exegesis, Leviathan (1651) emerges from the intellectual ferment of the Scientific Revolution and the confessional strife of the English Civil War. Hobbes (15881679), educated at Oxford and long associated with the Cavendish household, absorbed the new mechanics via Galileo and corresponded amid the Parisian philosophical milieu. Witness to civil tumult and exile, he feared the corrosions of sectarian zeal and scholastic obscurity; these experiences, alongside his materialist psychology, drove his bid to secure peace through absolute sovereignty. This work rewards readers in political theory, law, history, and theology. Whether one seeks foundations for state authority, a sharp account of liberty as non-impediment, or a cautionary meditation on disorder, Leviathan remains indispensableprovocative, lucid, and unsettling in its insistence that security precedes all other goods.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Peter Pan, first staged in 1904 and novelized in 1911 as Peter and Wendy, follows the Darling children into Neverland, where Peter, Tinker Bell, and Captain Hook enact adventures shot through with peril and sweetness. Barries prose weds whimsy to quiet dread; an ironic, intrusive narrator measures the price of refusing to grow up. The episodic, theatrical design betrays its stage origins, while its Edwardian context converses with Carroll and Stevenson, setting fantasy against the encroaching shadows of time and loss. Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie drew on personal history: his brothers childhood death fostered a fixation on stasis and grief, and his friendship with the Llewelyn Davies boys seeded Neverlands textures. London theatre sharpened his dramaturgs instinct for spectacle and direct address, shaping a narrative that slips between nursery and deck, sentiment and irony. Essential for readers of childrens literature, theatre history, and Edwardian studies, Peter Pan rewards both scholarly scrutiny and bedtime recital. It delights in flights and swordplay while posing lasting questions about memory, motherhood, and the ethics of perpetual youth. Return for enchantment tempered by insightand for a myth still shaping childhood.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Oliver Twist maps the passage of an orphan from parish workhouse to Londons criminal underworld, exposing the hypocrisies of the New Poor Law and the commodification of childhood. In a blend of picaresque movement, melodramatic suspense, and Gothic chiaroscuro, Dickens employs an omniscient, satiric narrator whose indignation is leavened by irony and pathos. Vivid set piecesworkhouse cruelty, Fagins den, Sikess brutality, Nancys moral courageconstruct a topography of urban vice and reluctant virtue, situating the novel within early Victorian social-problem fiction and the contentious Newgate novel debates. Born from Dickenss own encounters with poverty, journalism, and theatricality, the narrative draws on his childhood trauma of factory labor and his fathers imprisonment for debt, as well as his reporters tours through police courts and slums. Serialized composition in Bentleys Miscellany shaped its cliffhangers and crowd-pleasing turns, while the authors reformist impulse compelled a scathing depiction of institutional callousness, anti-Semitic caricature complicated by later revisions, and a probing interest in how language, law, and space discipline the poor. Readers of Victorian literature, social history, and urban studies will find Oliver Twist indispensable: a gripping narrative and a moral document that continues to illuminate poverty, criminality, and compassion.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Iliad condenses the Trojan War into a searing chronicle of a few weeks, governed by the catastrophic rage of Achilles and the fragile negotiations of honor. Composed in rolling dactylic hexameter, it fuses aristeiai, duels, councils, and funeral rites with a vivid divine machinery and far-ranging similes that place bronze-age combat within a cosmic ecology. Its formulaic diction, epithets, and ring composition reveal origins in an oral performance tradition, while its focus on the cost of kleos and the limits of heroic power sets it within the emergent literature of Archaic Greece. Ascribed to Homer, the semi-legendary poet of archaic Ionia, the poem crystallizes centuries of song shaped by rhapsodic performance and communal memory. Whether a single author or a traditionthe Homeric Question remains vitalits unity reflects a Panhellenic synthesis of local myths, an aristocratic warrior ethos, and a meticulous command of oral-formulaic technique. Both an unsparing anatomy of violence and a humane meditation on mortality, The Iliad rewards readers interested in epic poetics, political counsel, and the ethics of anger and pity. It is essential for students of classical literature and for any reader seeking narrative grandeur fused with psychological insight and cultural memory.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1898 after serialization, The War of the Worlds imagines a Martian assault that devastates Surrey and London. Wells blends eyewitness reportage with the speculative rigor of the scientific romance, producing a cool, pseudo-documentary narrative. Tripods, heat-ray, and black smoke estrange the familiar, reversing imperial confidence and channeling fin-de-siecle anxieties about industrial acceleration, biological struggle, and the brittleness of urban systems. Wells, trained in biology under T. H. Huxley, approached fiction as hypothesis testing. His early hardships and immersion in metropolitan modernity sharpened his sense of technologys double edge. Alongside The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, this novel mobilizes evolutionary thinking and imperial critique: extraterrestrial predation refracts Britains own expansionism and exposes how specialization renders civilizations exquisitely vulnerable. Scholars of empire, readers of speculative fiction, and students of media history will find it indispensable. As adventure, it exhilarates; as argument, it cautions. Read it for its lucid architecture, its prescient meditations on invasion and panic, and its enduring lesson in scientific humility.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.