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Genny é a sensual viúva do charmoso empresário Max, um homem manipulador e impulsivo que utilizava a informação como arma nos seus jogos de intrigas diplomáticas e escândalos internacionais. E nem a

The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran - Kahlil Gibran published "The Prophet" in 1923 and saw immediate success, but its real popularity came after his death.Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet is full of religious inspirations.The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.There is a wise man Almustafa ,who is about to set sail for his homeland after 12 years in exile in a fictional island. The people of the island asked many questions on different subjects. The book is quite autobiographical ,as many people come to Kahlil , leaving the church for his advice. He guided them but never pretended to be a saint or some elevated soul.The prophet answers questions asked by men and women, priest and priestess, judge and lawyers, youth and teacher, mason on various topics such as love, marriage, children, houses ,religion, work, freedom , death and many other modern issues . The prophet answers them all wisely."The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran is a majestic work of prose written in poetry. It is one of the best sellers in the world, which has been translated into more than 50 languages. It has been sold more than 10 million copies since its publication. The book may be considered as a spiritual book, but in real- modern life issues are discussed in a simple and captivating way.

God, the Invisible King H. G. Wells - This carefully crafted ebook: "God the Invisible King (The original unabridged edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reader for statements that may jar harshly against deeply rooted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defined objection to dogmas very widely revered. Table of contents: Preface Chapter I. The Cosmogony of Modern Religion Chapter II. Heresies; Or The Things That God Is Not Chapter III. The Likeness of God Chapter IV. The Religion of Atheists Chapter V. The Invisible King Chapter VI. Modern Ideas of Sin and Damnation Chapter VII. The Idea of a Church The Envoy Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells was now considered to be one of the worlds most important political thinkers and during the 1920s and 30s he was in great demand as a contributor to newspapers and journals.

A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories Beatrix Potter - This is Beatrix Potter true English Classic for children All of the stories have a subtle educative moral. Disobedient children are punished in some books but this does not mean they are dark stories. Infact her stories are so light the children can not get oppressed. All the characters are full of life, love and portray great imaginative fun.

Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare - "Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeares first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the sixteenth century. The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths. It is Shakespeares bloodiest and most violent work and traditionally was one of his least respected plays."

The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald - Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, Lootie, for company. Her father, the king, is normally absent, and her mother is dead. Unknown to her, the nearby mines are inhabited by a race of goblins, long banished from the kingdom and now anxious to take revenge on their human neighbours. One rainy day, the princess explores the castle and discovers a beautiful, mysterious lady, who identifies herself as Irenes namesake and great-great-grandmother. The next day, Princess Irene persuades her nursemaid to take her outside. After dark they are chased by goblins and rescued by a young miner, Curdie, whom Irene befriends. At work with the rest of the miners, Curdie overhears the goblins talking, and their conversation reveals to Curdie the secret weakness of goblin anatomy: they have very soft, vulnerable feet. Curdie sneaks into the Great Hall of the goblin palace to eavesdrop on their general meeting, and hears that the goblins intend to flood the mine if a certain other part of their plan should fail. He later conveys this news to his father. In the palace, Princess Irene injures her hand, which her great-great-grandmother heals. A week later Irene is about to see her great-great-grandmother again, but is frightened by a long-legged cat and escapes up the mountain; whereupon the light from her great-great-grandmothers tower leads her home, where her great-great-grandmother gives Irene a ring attached to a thread invisible except to herself, which thereafter connects her constantly to home.

The Lost Princess of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum - This is the eleventh book in The Oz Series by L. Frank Baum. When Princess Ozma mysteriously disappears, four search parties are sent out, one for each of Ozs four countries. Most of the book covers Dorothy and the Wizards efforts to find her. Meanwhile, Cayke the Cookie Chef discovers that her magic dishpan (on which she bakes her famous cookies) has been stolen. Along with the Frogman, they leave their mountain in Winkie Country to find the pan.

English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs - Joseph Jacobs He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairy Tales in 1893.From the Preface:WHO says that English folk have no fairy tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist. A quarter of the tales in this volume have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870, it was said equally of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

O retrato da Antiguidade Clássica que a maioria das pessoas aprende na escola segue um padrão: pinceladas de misoginia ao mesmo tempo que omite as origens da resistência feminista. Muitas práticas no

These observances once represented the spiritual life of Greece, and were considered for two thousand years and more the appointed means for regeneration through an interior union with the Divine Essence. However absurd, or even offensive they may seem to us, we should therefore hesitate long before we venture to lay desecrating hands on what others have esteemed holy. We can learn a valuable lesson in this regard from the Grecian and Roman writers, who had learned to treat the popular religious rites with mirth, but always considered the Eleusinian Mysteries with the deepest reverence.It is ignorance which leads to profanation. Men ridicule what they do not properly understand. Alcibiades was drunk when he ventured to touch what his countrymen deemed sacred. The undercurrent of this world is set toward one goal; and inside of human credulitycall it human weakness, if you pleaseis a power almost infinite, a holy faith capable of apprehending the supremest truths of all Existence. The veriest dreams of life, pertaining as they do to "the minor mystery of death," have in them more than external fact can reach or explain; and Myth, however much she is proved to be a child of Earth, is also received among men as the child of Heaven. The Cinder-Wench of the ashes will become the Cinderella of the Palace, and be wedded to the Kings Son.

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.It was from the north they came; and in the place they came from they had four cities, where they fought their battle for learning: great Falias, and shining Gorias, and Finias, and rich Murias that lay to the south. And in those cities they had four wise men to teach their young men skill and knowledge and perfect wisdom: Senias in Murias; and Arias, the fair-haired poet, in Finias; and Urias of the noble nature in Gorias; and Morias in Falias itself. And they brought from those four cities their four treasures: a Stone of Virtue from Falias, that was called the Lia Fail, the Stone of Destiny; and from Gorias they brought a Sword; and from Finias a Spear of Victory; and from Murias the fourth treasure, the Cauldron that no company ever went away from unsatisfied.

Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.Platos dialogues have been used (and are still used) to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His lasting themes include Platonic love, the theory of forms, the five regimes, innate knowledge, among others. His theory of forms launched a unique perspective on abstract objects, and led to a school of thought called Platonism.This collection contains the following works by Plato:Early WorksApologyCharmides, or TemperanceCritoEuthyphroGorgiasHippias, LesserHippias, GreaterIonLachesLysisProtagorasTransitional WorksCratylusEuthydemusMenoParmenidesPhaedoPhaedrusSymposiumThe RepublicMiddle WorksTheaetetusLate WorksCritiasLawsPhilebusSophistStatesmanTimaeusWorks of Disputed AuthorshipAlcibiades I & IIEryxiasMenexenusTheages

Venha conhecer a saga que deu origem a serie The Witcher da NETFLIX Geralt de Rivia. Um bruxo cuja misso e proteger as pessoas comuns dos monstros criados atraves de magia. Um mutante que tem a tarefa de matar seres que no so naturais. Ele usa um simbolo magico, poc?es e o orgulho de qualquer bruxo - duas espadas, metal e prata. Mas o que aconteceria se Geralt perdesse as suas armas? Neste romance, Geralt luta, viaja e ama de novo, Jaskier canta e continua a atrair problemas, os feiticeiros conspiram... e por todo o mundo as nuvens esto a juntar-se - esto a chegar tempos de tempestade! Tempos de Tempestade e o aguardado regresso de Andrzej Sapkowski ao mundo de Geralt de Rivia, a personagem que o catapultou para a fama mundial. Nesta prequela da saga voltam a brilhar as virtudes que o converteram, possivelmente, no melhor escritor contemporaneo de fantasia: o seu estilo inimitavel e o seu rude realismo temperado com humor negro.

Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.Platos dialogues have been used (and are still used) to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His lasting themes include Platonic love, the theory of forms, the five regimes, innate knowledge, among others. His theory of forms launched a unique perspective on abstract objects, and led to a school of thought called Platonism.This collection contains the following works by Plato:Early WorksApologyCharmides, or TemperanceCritoEuthyphroGorgiasHippias, LesserHippias, GreaterIonLachesLysisProtagorasTransitional WorksCratylusEuthydemusMenoParmenidesPhaedoPhaedrusSymposiumThe RepublicMiddle WorksTheaetetusLate WorksCritiasLawsPhilebusSophistStatesmanTimaeusWorks of Disputed AuthorshipAlcibiades I & IIEryxiasMenexenusTheages

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

Alexander III of Macedon Aléxandros III ho Makedn; commonly known as Alexander the Grea was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon[a] and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Western Asia and Northeastern Africa, and by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of historys most successful military commanders.

In A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseuss Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couplesbut not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or puck, Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe.

From Ignatius to Augustine, from persecutions to conflicts within the church, this book appears to be one the best introduction to the history of the early church, and an informative guide to the history of the first four centuries of the Christian Church.

*** Illustrated Premium Edition ***Since the Greeks and Romans were not among those who received the divine story of creation, they were forced to devise a theory to explain their own existence and account for the origin of all things. The foundation of this theory lay in the marvelous phenomena of nature around them. The growth of the mighty tree from the tiny seed, the bursting bud and blossom, thechanging hues and the fragrance of flowers, the alternation of day and night, the flash of the rock-rending lightning, the rage of the tempest, the flow of the rivers; the towering mountains, the lovely valleys; dew, rain, the clouds, and the ever-shifting panorama on every hand; the majestic sweep of the blazing worlds through spaceThese finally became crystallized into a literature, or mythology, which has since been the inspiration alike of romancers and poets.Published in 1895, 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described is an alphabetical book containing various creatures, people and gods from mythology.

The Papyrus of Ani is a quintessential example of ancient Egyptian literature, specifically the funerary texts known as the Book of the Dead. This richly illustrated scroll serves as a guide for the deceased, detailing essential spells and incantations designed to ensure a safe passage to the afterlife. The work is notable for its exquisite artistry and the use of archaic hieroglyphs, presenting a blend of poetic structure and religious doctrine that encapsulates the beliefs and customs surrounding death in ancient Egyptian society. Within its pages, readers encounter a vibrant tapestry of myth, theology, and profound moral philosophy that reflects the civilizationAos values and worldview. The author of this monumental work remains anonymous, which is not uncommon in ancient literatures. However, the composition is believed to be from the New Kingdom period, possibly during the 19th Dynasty, when interest in elaborate burial practices and texts flourished. The Papyrus of Ani itself belonged to a scribe named Ani, whose socio-economic status may have allowed access to such elaborate funerary rites. This manuscript stands as a testament to not only the spiritual life of the ancient Egyptians but also their meticulous craftsmanship and intellectual pursuits. For scholars, historians, and casual readers alike, The Papyrus of Ani provides an invaluable window into ancient Egyptian culture and religious beliefs. It is highly recommended for those interested in ancient history, archaeology, or religious studies, as it offers a unique perspective on mortality and the afterlife rituals that shaped one of the worlds most enduring civilizations.