English Vocabulary in Use (Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell)
Vocabulário em uso com 100 unidades de referências de vocabulário e prática. (Upper-intermadiate and advanced).
quarta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2009
English Vocabulary in Use (Upper-intermadiate and advanced)
English Vocabulary in Use (Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell)
English Vocabulary in Use
English Vocabulary in Use (Stuart Redman)
Vocabulário em uso com 100 unidades de referências de vocabulário e prática. Nível pré-intermediário e intermediário.
terça-feira, 27 de outubro de 2009
New Headway - PRONUNCIATION
New Headway - PRONUNCIATION (Pre-intermediate), Livro Completo de Pronuncia + Cd.
Tamanho Aprox.: 38,1 MB (Arquivo Compactado).
History of the FIFA World Cup
Um ótimo texto sobre a História da Copa do Mundo, ideal de se trabalhar em sala de aula. Formato do texto: PDF. Acompanha também uma faixa de áudio do texto.
Tamanho Aprox.: 4,21 MB (Arquivo Compactado).
Watch the Sky
Watch the Sky (James H. Schmitz)
It's one thing to try to get away with what you believe to be a lie and be caught at it-- and something different,
and far worse sometimes, to find it isn't a lie ...
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
The Murders In The Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
Mystery and crime stories as we know them today did not emerge until the mid-nineteenth century when Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The acknowledged father of the mystery story, Poe continued Dupin's exploits in novels such as The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842) and The Purloined Letter (1845).
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
"The humor and high-spirited adventure of Mark Twain's classic are here in full in this exuberant performance. Fraley? tells the story in a lively country twang and energetically acts out all the parts, offering a veritable one-man show. Especially entertaining are the scenes in which Tom wheedles his way out of trouble with his aunt, tries to charm Becky Thatcher, or gets into a heated argument with a schoolmate - Fraley effortlessly switches back and forth between voices, throwing himself into each part with gusto. This is that rare audiobook that can truly be enjoyed by all ages."
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sherlock Holmes was introduced in A Study in Scarlet (1887), followed by A Sign of Four in 1890, but didn't really take hold of the public's imagination until Strand magazine, newly founded in 1890, published a series of short stories called "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." From that point on the public couldn't get enough of Holmes and his always reliable confidant, John H. Watson, a retired military doctor.
Residing in London at 221B Baker Street, Holmes's character and personality set him apart from all others. "Holmes, with his keen sense of observation, his lean face and hooked nose, his long legs, his deerstalker hat, his magnifying glass, and his ever-present pipe. This personality is what caught the reader's imagination." (The Literature of Crime and Detection.
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
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The Wreck of the Golden Mary (Charles Dickens)
THE WRECK
I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.
The Poems of Goethe
The Poems of Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is widely recognized as the greatest writer of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known as the Age of Goethe, and Goethe embodies the concerns of the generation defined by the legacies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and the French Revolution. His stature derives not only from his literary achievements as a lyric poet, novelist, and dramatist but also from his often significant contributions as a scientist (geologist, botanist, anatomist, physicist, historian of science) and as a critic and theorist of literature and of art. He was, finally, such an imposing personality that for the last thirty years of his life he was Germany's greatest cultural monument, serving as an object of pilgrimage from all over Europe and even from the United States and leaving the small town of Weimar a major cultural center for decades after his death.
sexta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2009
The House Of The Seven Gables
The House Of The Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The novel is set mainly in the mid-19th century, with glimpses into the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century. The primary interest of this book is in the subtle and involved descriptions of character and motive.
The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after serving thirty years for murder. She refuses all assistance from her unpleasant wealthy cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. A distant relative, the lively and pretty young Phoebe, turns up and quickly becomes invaluable, charming customers and rousing Clifford from depression. A delicate romance grows between Phoebe and the mysterious lodger Holgrave, who is writing a history of the Pyncheon family.
The Descent of Man, Selection in Relation to Sex
The Descent of Man Selection in Relation to Sex (Charles Darwin)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book on evolutionary theory byEnglish naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology,evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the superiority of men to women, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society.
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through to the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, forgiveness and death, and is told in the style of an adventure story.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that explores deep into the ethicaldebates of God, free will and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt,reason and modern Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel.
The Battle of Life
The Battle of Life (Charles Dickens)
The Battle of Life: A Love Story (better known as The Battle of Life) is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man.
It is noteworthy in that it is the only one out of the five books that does not have any use of supernatural elements. It bears the greatest resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: that it is not a social novel and that it is resolved with a romantic twist. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one.
The Alkahest
The Alkahest (Honore de Balzac)
Archaeology is to social nature what comparative anatomy is to organized nature. A mosaic tells the tale of a society- as the skeleton of an ichthyosaurus opens up a creative epoch.DOWNLOAD
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
It was subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented because Hardy felt that its heroine was a virtuous victim of a rigid Victorian moral code. Now considered Hardy's masterwork, it departed from conventional Victorian fiction in its focus on the rural lower class and in its open treatment of sexuality and religion. After her impoverished family learns of its noble lineage, naive Tess Durbeyfield is sent to make an appeal to a nearby wealthy family who bear the ancestral name d'Urberville. Tess is seduced by dissolute Alec d'Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. Later working as a dairymaid she meets and marries Angel Clare, an idealistic gentleman who rejects Tess after learning of her past on their wedding night. Emotionally bereft and financially impoverished, Tess is trapped by necessity into giving in once again to d'Urberville, but she murders him when Angel returns. After a few days with Angel, Tess is arrested and executed.
Salammbo
Salammbo (Gustave Flaubert)
Famous for its erotic, sadistic, and decadent content, Flaubert's exotic novel Salammbô is also noted for its lush descriptive quality, visual brilliance, and Oriental texturing. It is a symbolic work notorious for its atmospheric evocation of a dying civilization and imagery of sensuous and terrifying cruelty. Set in North Africa after the First Punic War in the third century b.c., Salammbôdetails a mercenary revolt against the city of Carthage led by the Libyan soldier Mâtho and suppressed by the renowned Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca. Within the historical context of the rebellion Flaubert inserts his unique fictional character, Salammbô, Barca's daughter and the object of Mâtho's passion. A work principally concerned with sacrilege, ruin, and the tragic futility of desire, Salammbô has both intrigued and repelled critics with its depiction of lust, violence and excess.
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (Lewis Carroll)
A Collection of poems:
ECHOES, A SEA DIRGE, HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING, MELANCHOLETTA
A VALENTINE, THE THREE VOICES, TEMA CON VARIAZIONI, A GROUP OF FIVES
POETA FIT. NON NASCITUR, SIZE AND TEARS, ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-town,
THE LANG COORTIN', FOUR RIDDLES, FAME'S PENNY TRUMPET.
Penguin Island
Penguin Island (Anatole France)
Penguin Island is an intrusion to the privacy of evil human emotions which killed the happiness in individuals, an arrow aimed at religion for its role in preventing the freedom and progress of human kind and a court warrant to the established social administration for the brutal force with which they misuse and manipulate the law to kill morality and innocent. It is also a social Tax order for industrialists for using politics and war as a tool to spread their markets and spoiling the nature by pumping smoke of hyped demands for products.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th’ Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground."
Love and Friendship
Love and Friendship (Jane Austen)
These inventive and entertaining pieces display the genesis of the wit and imagination of Jane Austen’s mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly.
Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. A History of England supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are The Three Sisters, Catharine and the series of vignettes known as A Collection of Letters.
quinta-feira, 22 de outubro de 2009
Kidnapped
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
| "If 'Treasure Island' is the pirate story par excellence, then 'Kidnapped' is the romantic Scots adventure story of all time. Written in 1886, it is set in the turmoil and aftermath of the 1746 Jacobite Scots rebellion against the English at Culloden - events that established much of the national Scots character, which persists to this day. The story follows David Balfour, the canny eighteen year old, who is keen to seek his fortune. He sets out from the lowlands of Scotland to meet his mysterious relative, in search of work and 'whatere he may find'. His adventures begin at almost at once, and dark family secrets are soon only the starting point for an adventure that is a sort of Scottish Odyssey, with sea voyage, shipwreck, good friends and fights aplenty in the Hieland mountains and valleys. He meets and teams up with the excitable Alan Breck, a fighting man, and a lover of lost causes. The pace is sustained throughout and the narrative wrings the maximum effect from the most basic action plot and dialogue. The superficial simplicity of the whole belies the psychological depths portrayed in the masculine tensions and arguments that develop between the fugitives, and the book is so well written that it has earned the praises of the literary sophisticate, including Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. I recommend the Penguin Classics edition for this story as it has an excellent little glossary and set of notes explaining the rich Scots dialect terms which season the dialogue. One odd thing I did notice - there is many a dram of spirits consumed, but it is all brandy, not a drop of guid Scotch." |
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of the river, at this time Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
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