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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.

"I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." Jane AustenEmma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life in the quiet village of Highbury. Wealthy, independent, and perhaps a bit too sure of her own judgment, she occupies her time by orchestrating the romantic lives of those around her. However, her well-intentioned meddlingparticularly with her protege, Harriet Smithleads to a comedy of errors that threatens the happiness of her friends and herself. As Emma navigates a maze of social blunders and misplaced affections, she must confront the wisdom of her longtime friend and mentor, Mr. Knightley, and finally recognize the true desires of her own heart.The Art of the "Comedy of Manners": Austens sharp wit shines as she satirizes the social pretensions and gossip of 19th-century provincial life. Through Emmas eyes, we see a world where a misunderstood glance or a misinterpreted letter can change a persons fate. It is a brilliant study of human nature that remains as relevant today as it was in the Regency era.A Heroines Growth: Unlike many romantic leads of her time, Emma doesnt need to marry for money or status. Her journey is internalit is a transformation from a spoiled, self-important young woman into a mature adult who understands the weight of her influence on others. The tension between her and the stoic, honorable George Knightley provides one of the most satisfying "slow-burn" romances in fiction.Rediscover the wit and warmth of Austens most playful work. Purchase "Emma" today.

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest novels ever written and a cornerstone of world literature. Through the tormented mind of Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky explores crime, conscience, moral responsibility, and the possibility of redemption. Set in the oppressive streets of St. Petersburg, the novel combines psychological realism with profound philosophical inquiry. Intense, gripping, and deeply human, this masterpiece continues to challenge and transform readers across generations.

Che fine ha fatto la partita di carburante che forse poteva cambiare le sorti della guerra? E cosa centra unorganizzazione che aiutava i nazisti a fuggire in Argentina? Sono gli inquietanti interrogativi che irrompono nellincontro fra due attempate spie che, nella Roma dinizio millennio, rievocano i tempi passati, tra rancori e sospetti. In unatmosfera che proietta i protagonisti negli Anni Quaranta e Cinquanta, a margine dei grandi eventi storici, riemergono paure e delusioni. Ma anche amore e passione, con due giovani che lottano per salvare il mondo e un marinaio chiamato ad affrontare una partita di calcio delicatissima.Un affresco che fra flashback e colpi di scena dalla Riviera, passando per Sanremo, si allarga senza confini, insieme con le speranze di un futuro migliore.

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.

Beyond Good and Evil condenses Nietzsches mature assault on moral and metaphysical certitudes into taut aphorisms and brief polemics. Unmasking the "prejudices of philosophers," he shows how truth-claims cloak instincts and the will to power, advances perspectivism, and sketches free spirits and future philosophers who think beyond binary morals. Its quick, ironic, diagnosticians style situates the book at the pivot of late nineteenth-century thought, confronting positivism, German idealism, and the legacy of Christian conscience. A former Basel philologist, Nietzsche wrote amid illness, solitude, and itinerant years in the Alps and Italy, conditions that honed his ear for nuance and his suspicion of moral rhetoric. After Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885) and a break with Wagner, he pursued a cooler, more analytic register to prepare a revaluation of inherited values. Recommended to readers of philosophy, literature, and religious studies, this demanding volume clarifies debates about truth, agency, and morality while unsettling habitual certainties. Read with patience and a pencil: its barbed insights, audacious hypotheses, and exacting portraits of thinkers can reorient a curriculum and a life of thought.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.

Set in the early 1920s, The Enchanted April follows four dispirited English womenLottie Wilkins, Rose Arbuthnot, Mrs. Fisher, and Lady Caroline Desterwho answer a small advertisement and rent a castle above the Ligurian coast. Von Arnim blends luminous nature writing with comedy of manners, using free indirect discourse as wisteria, sun, and sea air reorder memory, desire, and marriage. An interwar pastoral, the novel turns postwar fatigue into an experiment in restorative leisure, where place acts upon character and social hierarchies gently shift. Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp in 1866, drew on a life of gardens, travel, and complicated marriagesfrom Prussian estates to English salons. Her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden sharpened her horticultural imagination and ironic poise, while Italian sojourns supplied the contours of San Salvatore. Skeptical of coercive domesticity yet fond of convivial order, she stages change as growth rooted in place rather than manifesto. Recommended for readers who prize supple prose, humane wit, and quietly radical plots; this novel offers replenishment without naivete, ideal for those seeking to rediscover companionship and self through the agency of landscape, and a restorative holiday in 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.

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.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) follows Kansas girl Dorothy Gale, swept by cyclone to Oz, who travels the Yellow Brick Road with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion to petition a humbug wizard. In brisk, transparent prose and episodic chapters, Baum fashions a distinctly American fairy tale, replacing Gothic admonition with spectacle, humor, and kindness, amplified by W. W. Denslows bold illustrations. L. Frank Baum, once a traveling actor, theater manager, shopkeeper, and journalist, honed storytelling for his children and neighborhood audiences before Father Goose (1899) made him famous. In Ozs preface he vowed a modernized fairy tale, shorn of gruesome moralizing. His Midwestern experience and love of stage effects shaped the books quick pace, democratic spirit, and faith in resourceful companionship over inherited authority. Recommended to general readers, families, and scholars alike, this classic rewards aloud reading and close study. Newcomers will delight in its clarity and warmth, while students of American literature will find a landmark text whose enduring themes of home, courage, and self-knowledge invite fresh interpretations across generations.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.

"Run mad as often as you choose; but do not faint!"If Volume I was the spark, Juvenilia Volume II is the fire. In this volume, a mid-teen Jane Austen takes aim at the "cult of sensibility" that dominated the novels of her day. The centerpiece, "Love and Freindship" (spelled intentionally with Austens original flourish), is a brilliant epistolary parody featuring heroines who faint on every sofa they encounter and wander the countryside in a state of perpetual, melodramatic "distraction." This volume also features her iconic "History of England," where she gleefully abandons historical accuracy to defend Mary, Queen of Scots, and mock the "vile" Elizabeth I. It is a collection that proves Austen was a master of irony before she was even twenty.The Masterpiece of Parody: Love and Freindship: Through a series of letters, Austen deconstructs the romantic tropes of the era. Her characters, Laura and Sophia, believe that "feeling" is more important than "common sense," leading to a series of absurd adventures involving stolen money, secret marriages, and dying of a "chill" caught while fainting in the dew.The Bias of a Historian: In The History of England, Austen mocks the dry, "objective" historians of her time. Writing as a "partial, prejudiced, and ignorant historian," she proves that history is often just a matter of who you like and who you donta biting critique of how narratives are constructed that still feels modern today.A Developing Genius: From the unfinished "Lesley Castle" to the sharp "Collection of Letters," this volume shows Austen experimenting with different voices and structures. You can see the DNA of Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility being formed in these rowdy, rebellious pages.Join the fun at the Austen family table. Purchase "Juvenilia Volume II" today.

"A mans character is forged in the silence of the forest and the heat of his first battle."Before he was the "Pathfinder" or "Hawkeye," he was simply Deerslayera young man who had never raised a rifle against a human being. On the shores of the crystal-clear Lake Glimmerglass, Natty Bumppo joins his Mohican brother Chingachgook on a perilous mission to rescue a kidnapped maiden. But the wilderness is fraught with danger: the ruthless Thomas Hutter defends his floating "Muskrat Castle" against Huron war parties, and Natty must navigate a world where the line between "civilized" and "savage" is blurred. This is the story of how a hunter became a warrior and a legend was born.The Education of a Frontiersman: The Deerslayer is a profound meditation on honor and the "white mans gifts" versus "red mans gifts." We witness Nattys first lethal encountera pivotal moment of psychological transitionwhere he earns his first warrior name from a dying foe. It is a masterpiece of moral complexity disguised as a high-stakes adventure.A World in Conflict: The novel captures the breathtaking beauty of the pre-Revolutionary American landscape while exposing the brutal realities of colonial expansion. Through the characters of the beautiful Judith Hutter and the simple-minded Hetty, Cooper explores themes of vanity, faith, and the tragic consequences of frontier violence.The Foundation of an Epic: This is where the greatest friendship in American literature begins. The bond between Natty and Chingachgook is established here in its purest forma partnership built on mutual respect, shared danger, and an unbreakable code of the woods.Experience the dawn of the frontier. Purchase "The Deerslayer" today and walk the path of the legend.

"The spirit of the forest speaks through those who know its secrets."It is 1757, the third year of the war between France and Great Britain for control of the North American colonies. In the dense wilderness of New York, the scout Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his Mohican companionsthe wise Chingachgook and his valiant son Uncasembark on a perilous mission. They must guide the daughters of a British commander, Cora and Alice Munro, through territory crawling with hostile Huron warriors. Their journey takes them through the blood-stained siege of Fort William Henry and into a tragic confrontation that will determine the fate of the "last" of the Mohican line.The Archetype of the American Hero: Hawkeye stands as one of literatures most enduring figures. A white man who has adopted the skills and philosophy of the Indigenous peoples, he represents the bridge between two worlds. His skill with his long rifle, "Killdeer," and his unwavering moral code make him the ultimate frontier protagonist.The Dual Duel: Uncas vs. Magua: The emotional weight of the novel rests on the rivalry between the noble Uncas and the vengeful Huron chief, Magua. Their conflict is more than a personal vendetta; it represents the clashing fates of different nations amidst the interference of European powers. Coopers portrayal of Magua remains one of the most complex and terrifying villain archetypes in literary history.A Tragic Romanticism: Coopers New York frontier is a place of breathtaking beauty and sudden, brutal violence. Through the tragic romance of Uncas and Cora Munro, the novel explores the social and racial tensions of the 18th century, culminating in a finale that has moved readers for two hundred years.Witness the birth of an American legend. Purchase "The Last of the Mohicans" today and experience the epic that defined a genre.