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When a 19th-century mechanic wakes up in Camelot, he uses his knowledge of science and history to become "The Boss," challenging the authority of the Church and Merlin. He introduces telephones, newspapers, and gunpowder to the Arthurian world, attempting to create a republic. The story begins as a fish-out-of-water comedy but darkens into a grim commentary on the destructive power of technology and war. It questions whether industrial progress truly equates to moral advancement.

One modern mind dropped into a medieval worldwith explosive results.Mark Twain blends satire, fantasy, and social commentary in this sharp critique of tradition and blind authority. Humor and irony drive a story that questions technology, leadership, and human nature.A witty classic for readers who enjoy clever storytelling with substance.Step into one of literatures most inventive time-travel tales.

"What happens when a 19th-century mechanic becomes the most powerful man in Camelot?"Meet Hank Morgan, a savvy superintendent at a Hartford carriage factory. After a blow to the head, he wakes up not in a hospital, but in 6th-century England. Armed with the knowledge of gunpowder, electricity, and the printing press, Hanknow known as "The Boss"decides to modernize King Arthurs kingdom. From using a solar eclipse to "magic" his way out of an execution to introducing bicycles to knights in shining armor, Hanks adventures are riotously funny. But beneath the comedy lies a sharp examination of power, technology, and the stubbornness of human nature.Satire at Its Sharpest: Twain uses Hanks journey to lampoon the "romantic" view of the Middle Ages popular in his time. He exposes the brutal reality of the feudal system and the churchs grip on the peasantry, while simultaneously questioning whether "progress" and technology truly make men better.A Pioneering Time Travel Tale: One of the first major works to explore the "Connecticut Yankee" trope, this novel sets the stage for the entire time-travel genre. Watch as the magic of Merlin is challenged by the "magic" of science, leading to a climax that is as shocking as it is unforgettable.Experience the wit that defined American literature. Purchase "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court" today.

A conspiração mais chocante de todas. Uma descoberta científica chocante revela uma conspiração implacável que chega até à Casa Branca. Ciência, História e política entrelaçadas um thriller dife

Entre batalhas e intrigas, surge a história de Ardian, um príncipe chamado não apenas a governar um reino, mas a descobrir o verdadeiro significado do poder e da fé. Em um mundo onde espadas definem

Simão de Cirene saiu de casa para celebrar a Páscoa em Jerusalém, mas seu caminho foi interrompido pelo encontro mais transformador da história. Arrancado da multidão, forçado a carregar a cruz de um

Humberto, um brasileiro vivendo em Portugal, leva uma vida tranquila até que, durante uma de suas caminhadas por Alcabideche, nos arredores de Cascais, desenterra uma misteriosa placa de metal. A partir dai, embarca numa investigaço surpreendente que o conecta a um segredo guardado ha seculos: a existencia da Cruz das Lagrimas de Cristo. Forjada com prata pura e incrustada com lagrimas de Cristo que, segundo a tradiço, se transformaram em ouro ao cairem no solo durante a crucificaço , a reliquia foi abençoada por Nossa Senhora, carregando o poder de curar e aproximar o portador do bem. Apos desaparecer misteriosamente, ela permaneceu perdida por quase um milenio, ate ser encontrada por um grupo de Cruzados durante a conquista de Jerusalem. Designados como guardies da cruz, esses guerreiros protegeram-na na Terra Santa ate serem expulsos. Fugiram para a Inglaterra e, sob ameaça de perseguiço, buscaram refugio em Portugal com o apoio da Ordem de Cristo. No entanto, mesmo em solo seguro, foram traidos e massacrados sem jamais revelar o paradeiro da reliquia, que voltou a ser engolida pelo tempo. Agora, seculos depois, a cruz ressurge apenas para ser roubada em um ousado golpe no Palacio da Ajuda. Envolvido em uma trama que mistura fe, historia e ambiço, Humberto se ve no centro de uma caçada implacavel por um artefato sagrado, enfrentando traiçes, conspiraçes e reviravoltas que desafiam sua propria compreenso do mundo. Neste romance eletrizante que entrelaça fatos historicos e ficço, o leitor e conduzido por uma jornada repleta de misterios ate um desfecho inesperado que revela a verdade oculta por tras de mais de mil anos de silencio.

Set in a shabby turnofthecentury boardinghouse, A Daily Rate follows a young wageearner whose quiet disciplinescleanliness, thrift, beauty, and prayergradually redeem a demoralized household. Hill blends domestic realism with evangelical melodrama: brisk scenes and conversion moments are offset by shrewd observations of urban labor and female friendship. Rooted in the sentimental tradition yet alert to Progressive Era questions of housing, wages, and reform, the romance becomes a blueprint for communal renewal. Grace Livingston Hill wrote from a devout Presbyterian milieu and an apprenticeship under her aunt, the bestselling "Pansy" (Isabella Macdonald Alden). Prolific and practical, she treated fiction as livelihood and ministry, drawing on Christian Endeavor work and firsthand knowledge of city missions and womens wages to imagine holiness cultivated in ordinary rooms. Recommended for readers of American religious literature, womens domestic narratives, and Progressive Era social history, A Daily Rate rewards close attention to cultural detail while offering accessible moral insight. It is an inviting entry to Hills oeuvre and a persuasive study of everyday ethics transformed by grace.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.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOWBanville is one of my favourite writers alive. REBECCA F. KUANGMore than a touch of genius.THE TIMES Newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, a shotgun still in his hands. Few see his demise as cause for sorrow, but before long, Quirke realizes that, rather than the suspected suicide, Diamond Dick has been murdered.Suspicion soon falls on one of Jewells biggest rivals, but as Quirke gets to know Jewells beautiful, enigmatic wife, his fragile sister and those who work for the family, it becomes clear that not everything in this household is as it seems.Praise for the Quirke Series:A joy to read.Sunday TimesDarkly dangerous [with] flinty humour.Daily TelegraphBeguiling characters and evocative settings . . . Impeccable.The Times

James Agees A Death in the Family is a poignant exploration of grief, family, and memory set against the backdrop of 1915 Knoxville, Tennessee. With a narrative that seamlessly weaves Christian mythos and Southern Gothic realism, Agee illuminates the haunting impacts of sudden loss when a father perishes in a car accident. The novels lyrical prose captures the fragmented consciousness of a family grappling with the vacuum left by a beloved member. Intricate details of daily life and visceral introspections into each characters psyche render the book a masterpiece of emotional depth and poetic eloquence. Faced with the harsh finality of death, Agees work dwells in the liminal space between memory and reality, touching on universal themes. James Agee, an esteemed author and critic, drew inspiration from his own painful childhood experience of losing his father. Born in Knoxville in 1909, Agees intimate familiarity with the setting and event powers this deeply autobiographical novel. A prominent voice in depression-era and post-war America, Agees journalistic prowess in exposing raw human emotions transcends into his fiction writing, highlighting his quest to understand the profundities of life and loss. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stands as a testament to his mastery in unfolding the complexities of familial and personal devastation. A Death in the Family is highly recommended for readers seeking an emotionally powerful narrative that combines poignant realism with poetic delineation. Agees ability to meticulously portray the vulnerability of the human condition in the face of grief makes this novel a timeless classic. Scholars, critics, and general readers alike will find resonance in the universality of loss and the enduring human spirit found within these pages. Agees profound understanding of mortality and familial bonds offers invaluable insights, ensuring its place in the pantheon of great American literature.

First published in 1762, A Description of Millenium Hall refashions the sentimental novel into a female utopia. A male travelers visit frames exemplary histories, in which trialsabduction, coercive courtship, precarious fortunesare converted into philanthropy, education, and rational household economy. Scotts lucid style couples moral reflection with social critique, exposing marriage markets and masculine prerogative. Situated in Bluestocking culture, the book borrows conduct literatures didacticism while testing utopias architecture: a selfsupporting community that organizes labor, charity, and taste to make virtue practicable. Sarah Scott, sister to Bluestocking leader Elizabeth Montagu, wrote after a brief, unhappy marriage and a turn to independent living and charitable work. Her collaborations and handson philanthropyespecially in womens education and relief for the poorinform the novels administrative detail and moral confidence. Steeped in Anglican piety and Enlightenment ethics, Scott converts lived experiment into fiction, imagining the institutions she helped to build. Millenium Hall will reward readers of early feminist thought, utopian studies, and eighteenthcentury fiction. It suits courses on womens writing and social reform, and general readers curious about practical blueprints for ethical community. Read it for its humane rigor, its experiments in cooperative life, and its invitation to rethink virtue as something organized, not merely felt.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.

Nascida em São Lourenço, Minas Gerais, na família Ajlani, de origem libanesa, Dinoráh valorizou por toda a vida os costumes e valores aprendidos com o pai. Quis ser médica, como o irmão, e recebeu to

Todos estamos na estrada da vida. É um caminho árduo e prazeroso a ser seguido. Estamos num mundo de expiação e provas cujo sentido é evoluir. Precisamos nos libertar das amarras do ódio, tristeza e

Uma antropóloga e arqueóloga retorna à floresta.Mas há algo esperando por ela sob a terra.Akashany chega a Alter do Chão para escavar vestígios dos antigos Borari, mas logo percebe que não é ela quem

A Final Reckoning traces the fortunes of Reuben Whitney, a wronged English youth who seeks a new start in the Australian bush. Set amid the convict legacy and the bushranging scourge of early colonial New South Wales, the novel moves through drought, flood, bushfire, and the rough justice of frontier policing. Hentys brisk, episodic prose combines documentary detailstations, stock-work, and bushcraftwith melodramatic set pieces, situating the tale within the Victorian boys adventure tradition of Ballantyne and Mayne Reid while revealing the eras imperial assumptions. G. A. Henty, a prolific late-Victorian journalist and war correspondent, brought to fiction the habits of a reporter: pacing, logistical clarity, and a taste for moral exempla. Though he likely relied on travelogues, newspapers, and settler memoirs rather than firsthand Australian residence, his wide-ranging field experience and didactic aims shaped this narrative of character forged by ordeal. Readers interested in colonial Australia, frontier violence, and the formation of imperial masculinity will find this a compelling, if ideologically dated, portrait of bush life. Approach it both for its swift storytelling and as an artifact of its timerich for classroom discussion and for scholars of childrens literature.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.

Um casamento arranjado, uma floresta que esconde segredos. A floresta entre os reinos, como o próprio título coloca, fala sobre o desenrolar de uma história a partir de uma floresta. Caída num aspecto trevoso, a personagem central tornou-se centro da discusso de Iria, o planeta onde ela se localizava. Os seres que insistiram em la ficar causavam ao mesmo tempo temor e curiosidade nos principais governantes.Formaram-se varios reinos, muita disputa por poder, romances, muita magia e personagens que nos tiram o folego com suas reviravoltas. As perguntas so muitas. Viles so realmente maus? E os herois so realmente bons? Por que a Floresta Sinistra divide tantas opinies? Ela deve ser destruida ou no? A realeza tem seus encantos, mas guarda segredos avassaladores. Quais seriam esses segredos?

An acknowledgment.A vow.A ritual that listens back.In A Gentlemans Private Rituals Book 1: Velvet Secrets, Cassian Ward opens the doors to a world where power is not seized, but carefully curatedand where submission begins not with obedience, but with truth.When a velvet-wrapped invitation appears without explanation, a woman is drawn into a house that does not merely host ritualsit responds to them. Guided by a man known only as the Gentleman, she enters a sequence of private rites designed to strip away masks, confront silence, and awaken desire that refuses to remain hidden.This is not a story of coercion or spectacle.It is a slow-burn descent into psychological dominance, ritualized consent, and erotic intimacy shaped by restraint, attention, and choice.As chambers listen, walls remember, and vows reshape identity, Velvet Secrets explores the moment where curiosity becomes surrenderand surrender becomes self-recognition.Atmospheric, sensual, and meticulously controlled, this first volume establishes the foundation of a series where desire is observed, power is negotiated, and every ritual leaves a mark.For readers of dark romance, BDSM erotica, ritualized power exchange, and psychologically immersive erotic fiction.Adults only (18+).

What if a haunted house was filled not with fearbut with love?A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf is a beautifully written short story that blends the supernatural with deep emotional insight. First published in 1921, the story follows the gentle presence of two ghostly figures wandering through a home, searching not to frighten the living, but to rediscover a love that once filled the space.With Woolfs signature poetic prose and stream-of-consciousness style, this hauntingly quiet tale explores memory, intimacy, and the unseen emotional lives that linger within familiar places.This eBook presents the original text in a clear, accessible format, allowing readers to experience one of Woolfs most intimate and lyrical works.Inside, youll encounter:A subtle and emotional take on the ghost storyThemes of love, time, and memory beyond deathWoolfs innovative modernist narrative styleA timeless literary meditation on presence and absenceOften studied in literature courses and admired for its emotional depth, A Haunted House remains a powerful example of how minimalism and mood can leave a lasting impact.Step into a quiet, haunted space where love never fades. Buy now and experience one of Virginia Woolfs most enchanting works.

A Hazard of New Fortunes follows Basil and Isabel March to New York, where Fulkerson hires Basil to edit the new magazine Every Other Week. Across offices, parlors, and streetcar lines, Howells composes a panoramic social comedy edged with menace: the immigrant socialist Lindau debates the ex-Confederate Colonel Woodburn; the newly rich investor Dryfoos asserts the sovereignty of capital; and a strike erupts, ending in Conrad Dryfooss death. In supple, gently ironic realism, the novel blends metropolitan observation and dialogue to anatomize Gilded Age capitalism, labor unrest, and the rise of a modern media culture. Howells, long styled the dean of American realism, drew on his editorial careerfrom The Atlantic Monthly to his New York work with Harpersto render the magazine world from within. His outspoken response to the Haymarket affair sharpened his social conscience, and his late-1880s immersion in Manhattan supplied the novels documentary textures. Returning to his recurring protagonist Basil March, he tests how markets shape art and citizenship. Readers interested in American realism, labor history, or media studies will find this novel exacting and humane: a bracing, timely inquiry into class, immigration, and the ethics of publishing.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.

Ambos colegas de trabalho, ela é do interior de SP. Fria e antipática, esconde sua beleza e é misteriosa. Um relacionamento entre ambos explode numa intensa paixão. Ela encontrara alguém que a amava