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  • Quincas Borba

    by Machado de Assis ...
    Rubião achou um rival no coração de Quincas Borba, — um cão, um bonito cão, meio tamanho, pêlo cor de chumbo, malhado de preto. Quincas Borba levava-o para toda parte, dormiam no mesmo quarto. De manhã, era o cão que acordava o senhor, trepando ao leito, onde trocavam as primeiras saudações. Uma das extravagâncias do dono foi dar-lhe o seu próprio nome; mas, explicava-o por dous motivos, um ... Read more

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  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    A Novel

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    “Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?”—Parul Sehgal, New York TimesNow considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis’s highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. Narrating from beyond the grave, Brás Cubas—an enigmatic, amusing and frequently ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

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    Women and Psychedelics

    Uncovering Invisible Voices (A Chacruna Anthology)

    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May, Abigail Reno ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 42 min

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge.Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dom Casmurro

    by Machado de Assis ...
    Dom Casmurro is a timeless masterpiece of Brazilian literature that explores love, jealousy, memory, and the fragile nature of truth. Written by Machado de Assis, one of the greatest literary figures of the 19th century, this psychological novel invites readers into the introspective and unreliable mind of its narrator, Bento Santiago. The story unfolds as Bento, now an aging and solitary man, ... Read more

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  • Dom Casmurro

    A Novel

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur.Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new translation captures all the hilarious, maddening, and utterly compelling ... Read more

    $18.29 CAD

  • Signs of a New Season

    by Biank de Assis ...
    In Signs of a New Season, Biank de Assis brings a word of faith and discernment for those who sense that God is closing one cycle and opening a new season. With brief, encouraging reflections, this devotional book helps the reader recognize the signs of change, trust in God's timing, and take the next steps with hope, without fear of the new thing the Lord is doing. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God Still Turns Stories Around

    by Biank de Assis ...
    Your Story Is Not Over Yet. Maybe you are reading these pages in a season when everything seems to be standing still. You pray, you work, you wait — but on the outside, nothing changes. The last word does not belong to the pit, to the loss, to the prison, to the sickness, or to the Friday of the cross. The last word belongs to God. The Bible tells of Joseph sold by his brothers, Job sitting on the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quincas Borba

    by Machado de Assis ...
    Quincas Borba is a brilliant and darkly ironic novel by Machado de Assis, one of Brazil's most celebrated literary masters. Blending sharp social satire with profound psychological insight, this unforgettable story explores ambition, illusion, greed, and the fragile boundaries between sanity and madness. At the heart of the novel is Rubião, a modest schoolteacher whose life takes an unexpected ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Posthumous Memoirs Of Brás Cubas

    by Machado De Assis ...
    Dive into the whirlwind life and afterlife of Brás Cubas, a man who decides to tell his story from beyond the grave. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is not your typical ghost story but a daring, humorous, and profoundly introspective journey through the eyes of a deceased narrator. This groundbreaking novel by Machado de Assis, a titan of Brazilian literature, blends dark comedy, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    Machado de Assis

    by Machado de Assis ...
    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 – 1908) was a writer considered by many critics, scholars, writers, and readers to be the greatest name in Brazilian literature. Machado de Assis left a very extensive body of work, the result of half a century of literary labor, which includes plays, poetry, prologues, critiques, speeches, more than two hundred short stories, and several novels. "The ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Alienist

    by Machado de Assis ...
    In "The Alienist", renowned physician Dr. Simão Bacamarte decides to found an asylum in the small town of Itaguaí to study madness. However, his obsessive quest to define sanity leads to the hospitalization of increasingly normal citizens—and the town is plunged into chaos. Machado de Assis brilliant satire questions the boundaries between reason and madness, power and science. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus