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¿Es necesario el sexo? O por qué sientes lo que sientes es una obra satírica publicada en 1929 que parodia, con ingenio y humor sofisticado, las teorías psicológicas y sociales sobre el sexo, el amor y el comportamiento humano que estaban en boga a principios del siglo XX. A traves de ensayos breves, definiciones falsas, graficos absurdos y ejemplos exagerados, E. B. White y James Thurber desmontan el lenguaje pomposo de la psicologia popular y las explicaciones seudocientificas sobre las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres.El libro no pretende ofrecer respuestas serias, sino burlarse de la obsesion por racionalizar emociones, deseos y conductas que, segun los autores, pertenecen al ambito de lo irracional y lo humano. Con un estilo ironico y elegante, los textos abordan temas como la pasion, la neurosis, la represion, el matrimonio y la confusion emocional, siempre desde una perspectiva critica y humoristica.Mas que un tratado sobre el sexo, la obra es una satira de la cultura moderna y de su afan por clasificar y explicar lo inexplicable. Su humor inteligente, a veces absurdo y a veces mordaz, convirtio el libro en un clasico del humor literario estadounidense y en un referente temprano de la critica cultural disfrazada de comedia.

James Thurber ha sido llamado «uno de los más grandes humoristas del mundo» por Alistair Cook de The Atlantic y «una de las grandes instituciones norteamericanas» por Stanley Walker del New York Hera

Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do (1929) is a brilliant satirical work that humorously dissects the popular psychological and social theories about sex, love, and human behavior prevalent in the early twentieth century. Written by E. B. White and James Thurber, the book adopts the tone of a mock scientific study, complete with absurd charts, invented terminology, and tongue-in-cheek definitions.Rather than offering genuine explanations, the authors parody the eras obsession with analyzing emotions through pseudo-scientific language. Topics such as romance, neurosis, marriage, passion, repression, and gender relations are treated with elegant irony and playful exaggeration. The humor lies in exposing how attempts to rationalize feelings often lead to confusion rather than clarity.The book does not aim to answer whether sex is "necessary" in any serious sense; instead, it mocks the cultural impulse to intellectualize what is fundamentally emotional and irrational. With sharp wit and understated elegance, White and Thurber critique modern societys faith in psychology as a universal explanatory tool.Enduringly fresh, Is Sex Necessary? remains a classic of American humor, celebrated for its intelligence, restraint, and timeless commentary on human relationships and emotional bewilderment.

Middlemarch is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language. George Eliot masterfully weaves together the lives of multiple characters in a provincial town, exploring marriage, ambition, reform, and moral responsibility. Rich in psychological insight and social realism, this monumental novel offers a deeply human portrait of personal growth and ethical complexity.

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.

In The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), Smollett fashions a polyphonic epistolary tour of Britain in which a gouty Welsh squire, his scheming sister, their spirited niece and nephew, a hilariously unlettered maid, and companions view Bath, London, and Scotland from clashing angles. The novel blends picaresque momentum with social reportage: spas, coaching inns, assemblies, and playhouses become stages for satire tempered by sympathy. Its lettersfrom Brambles irascible complaints to Win Jenkinss phonetic blundersanatomize post-Union identities, medical fashions, and the pressures of urban modernity, even as sentiment softens judgment. Smollett, a Scottish surgeon-turned-man of letters, drew on medical training, editorial combat, and hard-won travel experience (not least his Travels Through France and Italy) to shape this late masterpiece. Composed in the shadow of illness and partial exile in Italy, the book refines his earlier asperities into comic benevolence without sacrificing diagnostic bite. This novel suits readers seeking both laughter and layered cultural history: students of eighteenth-century fiction, travel writing, and British nationhood will find a lucid primer and a sophisticated case study. Admirers of Fielding and Sterne alike will relish its energy; newcomers will discover a generous, stylistically dazzling guide to a society on the move.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.

The American Senator surveys an English county through the cool gaze of Senator Elias Gotobed, whose visit exposes the absurdities and evasions of rural privilege. Around Dillsboroughs hunt and the houses of Bragton and Rufford, Trollope interlaces the senators lectures on law, church, and primogeniture with Arabella Trefoils ruthless marriage campaign and the quieter courtship of Mary Masters and Reginald Morton. Late-Trollopean realismironic, patient, capaciousturns foxhunting and drawing-room ritual into an ethnography of Englishness. Trollopes Post Office career and wide American travels (recounted in North America) prepared him to compare institutions without caricature. A passionate rider to hounds and an acute observer of elections and patronage, he writes from lived experience of county sport, the marriage market, and local power, letting an outsiders empiricism probe customs he knew intimately. Readers of realist fiction and transatlantic history will relish its steady moral pressure and unblinking comedy. As a county novel of high finish and a comparative inquiry into foxhunting, entail, and clerical authority, The American Senator remains a lucid, humane guide to the textures of English society.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.

Paying Guests is E. F. Bensons brisk, observant portrait of a genteel boarding house in interwar England, where fragile hierarchies are tested at the dinner gong. With supple free indirect narration and set pieces that slip from decorum into farce, Benson choreographs rivalries over precedence, musical evenings, and charitable committees into a comedy of exposure. The paying guestneither servant nor kinbecomes a lens on status, thrift, and the uneasy commerce of intimacy, aligning the novel with the comedy of manners while giving it a distinctly interwar bite. Benson (18671940), son of an Archbishop of Canterbury and later a resident of Rye, had honed his eye on provincial theatricals in the Mapp and Lucia novels. Interwar anxietiesclass mobility, shrinking incomes, and the need to take lodgerssupplied both subject and stage. A prolific satirist, he writes with the amused precision of a man intimate with committees, clubs, and seaside seasons. Recommended to readers who relish ruthless civility and ensemble comedy, Paying Guests offers polished laughter and a sharp primer on the economics of gentility. Ideal for admirers of social satire and students of interwar Britain.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.

Set in Depression-era America, It Cant Happen Here tracks the rise of Senator "Buzz" Windrip and the corrosion of civic life as witnessed by editor Doremus Jessup. Lewis blends newspapery briskness with corrosive satire and documentary insertsplatforms, decrees, staged trialsto show how populist spectacle congeals into routine repression. Composed in 1935 amid the interwar crisis, it dissects loyalty oaths, paramilitaries, and bureaucratized cruelty within native traditions of boosterism and fear. Lewis, the first American Nobel laureate in literature, redirected his lifelong critique of conformityfrom Main Street and Babbitt to Elmer Gantryinto a civic warning. With a journalists training and a Midwestern vantage, he observed European fascism and homegrown demagoguery on radio and stump, then fashioned Jessups stubborn, procedural resistance to show how ideology becomes habit. Readers of political history, journalism, and American studies will find a lucid field manual in narrative formsobering yet humane. For citizens and students alike, it remains an indispensable, bracing companion for thinking about institutions, charisma, and the slow erosion of democratic norms.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.

Don Quixote, issued in two parts (1605, 1615), dismantles the waning chivalric romance while helping invent the modern novel. The deluded hidalgo and his canny squire, Sancho Panza, wander early modern Spain in episodes that braid farce with ethical reflection. Cervantes multiplies narratorschiefly the feigned Arab historian Cide Hamete Benengelimixes inserted tales with the main plot, and exploits self-referential play to probe authorship, truth, and perception. The prose toggles between elevated parody and scrupulous realism, portraying a society moving from knightly fictions to pragmatic modernity. Cervantes fought at Lepanto, lost the use of his left hand, and endured years of captivity in Algiers; later, as a tax official and frustrated dramatist under Lope de Vegas shadow, he met Spains bureaucratic tangles and social margins firsthand. Such ordeals fueled his skepticism toward heroic postures and his compassion for failure, shaping a book obsessed with how reading, desire, and circumstance remake one another. Read this novel for its laughter and lucidity: a study of imaginations dignity and risk, a primer in narrative invention, and a humane portrait of a culture in flux. Whether newcomer or scholar, you will find a companion that still teaches how to readand how to live.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 Flying Inn (1914) is G. K. Chestertons picaresque satire, set in a near-future England where the ascetic reformer Lord Ivywood imposes near prohibition. Armed with a signboard, a cask of rum, and a wheel of cheese, innkeeper Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy turn Britain into their moving tavern, defending convivial liberty with song and mischief. Interleaving ballads with burlesque episodes and epigrammatic paradox, the novel lampoons bureaucratic puritanism and utopian social engineering, situating itself among Edwardian anti-utopias and Chestertons quarrel with progressive technocracy. Chesterton, a journalist-essayist later famed for Orthodoxy and the Father Brown tales, wrote from a defense of the common man, the local, and the sacramental joys of ordinary life. Before his 1922 conversion to Catholicism, he and Hilaire Belloc advanced distributist ideas; the novel channels those economics and his polemics against temperance crusades, homogenized empire, and the rationalism of H. G. Wells and kindred futurists. Recommended to readers of satire, political theory, and English letters, The Flying Inn offers comic verve with serious stakes; approach dated caricatures critically, but savor its songs and its spirited defense of festivity, community, and freedom.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.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) tracks Gordon Comstock, a would-be poet who abandons an advertising job to wage war on the Money-God from behind the till of a shabby London bookshop. Orwell fuses social realism with caustic satire, rendering boarding-house grime, pawnshops, and payday humiliations with unsparing detail. The aspidistraubiquitous parlour plantbecomes a mordant emblem of middle-class respectability that Gordon both scorns and cannot escape. Set in Depression-era Britain, the novel belongs to Orwells early urban fictions and anticipates the moral-economic critiques refined in his later essays. Drawing on his own stints in poverty and on the margins, as recorded in Down and Out in Paris and London, and on his experience working in a Hampstead bookshop, Orwell anatomizes the psychic toll of penury and class shame. His friendship circles in literary London and his growing democratic-socialist commitments shape Gordons quarrel with commercial culture and compromised art. This novel rewards readers interested in the literature of precarity, the ethics of art under capitalism, and the textures of 1930s Britain. It is essential for students of Orwell beyond the dystopias, and for anyone who suspects that moneys vocabulary colonizes even our most intimate ambitions.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.

Vera (1921) is a chilling anatomy of coercive marriage. Young Lucy Entwistle, newly bereaved, is swept into the orbit of widower Everard Wemyss and taken to The Willows, still haunted by his first wifes fatal fall. Von Arnim turns social comedy into mordant irony, using close psychological realism to show how paternal kindness becomes domination. Cool, lucid prose and claustrophobic interiors make a modern Bluebeard fable that, rooted in a postwar domestic world, anticipates Rebecca and anatomizes the rhetoric of benevolence that enables gaslighting. Better known for the lightness of Elizabeth and Her German Garden and The Enchanted April, von Arnim here draws on darker experience. Her disastrous second marriage to the controlling Frank Russell, alongside acute observation of Anglo-European society, informs Wemysss charm as instrument of power. Writing amid postwar shifts in gender and authority, she redirects satire toward the politics of intimacy, producing a work at once personally inflected and rigorously composed. Essential for readers of feminist Gothic and psychological realism, Vera rewards scholars and general readers alike seeking an unsparing portrait of ordinary tyrannyand the unnerving spectacle of politeness made terrifying.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.

Consequences (1919) follows Alex Clare, a well-bred Edwardian girl whose refusal of an eligible proposal exposes the ruthless calculus allotted to women: marriage or marginality. Delafield tracks Alex from drawing rooms and debutante rites to the rigors of a convent, rendering the tug between piety, desire, and duty with unsparing psychological acuity. The prose blends cool social comedy with an increasingly austere clarity, interrogating the religious and domestic ideologies that shape a life. Situated between late Victorian social critique and interwar psychological fiction, the novels study of female formation shades, inexorably, toward tragedy. E. M. Delafield (18901943), daughter of novelist Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, briefly entered a religious community in 1911 before leaving, and later served as a VAD in the Great War. That experience, coupled with intimate knowledge of upper-middle-class manners, gives the book its authority; satire and sympathy continually test each other. Readers of feminist social fiction, Edwardian cultural history, or the moral psychology of vocation will find Consequences both elegant and unsettling. It rewards close attention with sharp observation, ethical seriousness, and a haunting question about a self denied room to become.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.

Gay Life (Unabridged) is a crisp, unsentimental study of the whirl of interwar society, where parties and quicksilver alliances conceal economic strain and moral fatigue. Delafield fuses comedy of manners with psychological acuity, following the drift between fashionable drawing rooms and more precarious lodgings to expose the economies of work, money, and reputation. Her prose is economical, epigrammatic, and slyly ironic; dialogue carries the drama. In 1930s British fiction, the novel converses with Bright Young satires while grounding their sparkle in domestic realism. E. M. Delafieldcelebrated author of The Diary of a Provincial Ladywrote from lived familiarity with both provincial constraint and metropolitan performance. A former VAD nurse and later a Time and Tide journalist, she developed a diagnostic eye for social theater and the costs that underwrite it. Her literary upbringing and experience as a working mother in a volatile decade sharpened her sense of the compromises women negotiate, a perspective that shapes the novels moral intelligence. Readers who prize elegant wit yoked to clear-sighted critique will find Gay Life both entertaining and bracing. Recommended for admirers of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, and Barbara Pym, this edition lets Delafields mordant humor and compassion register in equal measure.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.

Why do we accept obvious nonsense as normal? This collection of satirical essays strips away the polite veneer of modern society to reveal the contradictions, hypocrisies, and absurdities hiding in plain sight.Through biting wit and razor-sharp observation, these pieces examine everything from performative outrage to the theater of political discourse, from social medias manufactured reality to the unspoken rules that govern our daily lives. Each essay takes aim at a different sacred cow, asking uncomfortable questions and finding humor in our collective willingness to pretend everything makes sense.This isnt gentle humorits social critique with teeth. Perfect for readers who appreciate intelligent satire that makes them laugh, think, and squirm in equal measure. These essays challenge you to see the familiar with fresh eyes and question why we accept what we accept.For those tired of pretending the emperor is well-dressed, this collection offers sharp commentary wrapped in wit, proving that sometimes the best way to confront uncomfortable truths is to laugh at them first.

Aqui encontramos entre outras a jornada de Aurora a Jessica com a certeza de que nenhum fim é realmente final. A alma continua, aprende, retorna. O tempo é apenas mais uma fronteira a ser ultrapassada. E cada leitor, ao acompanhar essa travessia, talvez encontre ecos de sua propria linhagem nas entrelinhas destas paginas e a coragem necessaria para iluminar suas proprias sombras.Jessika cresceu acreditando que sua vida era apenas uma sequencia de dores e repetiçes familiares. No entanto, ao investigar seu passado, ela descobre que sua historia faz parte de uma linhagem marcada por laços carmicos e destinos entrelaçados. Entre revelaçes chocantes, viagens entre realidades e memorias que no parecem pertencer somente a ela, Jessika se ve diante de uma jornada que desafia o tempo, a logica e ate mesmo sua propria identidade. Quando e surpreendida ao perceber que esta dentro de uma maquina do tempo parte de um experimento cientifico criado decadas antes Jessika entende que seus antepassados tambem enfrentaram segredos que foram apagados da historia. Agora, ela precisa decidir se continua o ciclo ou se finalmente o encerra. Misturando espiritualidade, psicologia, misterio familiar, trauma transgeracional e ficço cientifica, este livro revela que toda linhagem carrega passado, presente e futuro e que somente ao compreender esses pilares e possivel romper com destinos que pareciam inevitaveis.

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