Paul Heyse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "e;as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories.
A coleção 7 Melhores Contos convida você a explorar a riqueza da literatura em língua portuguesa, destacando autores que marcaram a nossa história literária.
The Balkans, also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in Southeast Europe with various definitions and meanings, including geopolitical and historical.
7 Melhores Contos de João do Rio é uma coletânea que celebra a habilidade única de João do Rio, pseudônimo de Paulo Barreto, um dos cronistas mais brilhantes da vida carioca no início do século XX.
Em uma viagem pelos labirintos da mente de Raul Pompeia, um dos pilares do Realismo brasileiro, mergulhe em um mundo onde os personagens se debatem entre os desejos e as convenções sociais.
In the early twentieth century, her writing appeared old-fashioned and provincial, but today Elizabeth Gaskell ranks as one of the most highly-regarded British Victorian novelists.
Bjornstjerne Bjornsonreceived the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "e;as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit"e;, becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate.
Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, Alice Dunbar Nelson was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Eça de Queirós foi o único romancista português a conquistar fama internacional em sua época - atualmente o autor já foi traduzido para mais de 70 idiomas.
Theophile Gautierinfluence was strongly felt in the period of changing sensibilities in French literaturefrom the early Romantic period to the aestheticism and naturalism of the end of the 19th century.
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.
Prepare to delve into the depths of the human soul with Seven Masterpieces by Tolstoy, a captivating collection of short stories from one of the greatest literary minds in history, Leo Tolstoy.
Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative (traditionally, literary fiction), most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.
The journalist and writer Don Marquis obtained recognition in life, one of the works of this collection (The Old Soak) being transformed into a play and later, a movie still in the silent movie era.
Elizabeth Garver Jordan was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family.
Arnold Bennett was a British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European realism.
