Category: Romance

By Anonymous

Imaginemos um jogo entre pessoas cultas, em que cada participante eleja os dez maiores clássicos da literatura common. Não importa o lugar, não importa a época, não importam as pessoas: o único título comum a todas essas listas será, necessariamente, o Livro das mil e uma noites. Embora seja uma obra essencialmente árabe, pelo espírito e pela língua, muita gente ainda parece obstinada em lhe apontar as “fontes”, que vão buscar na Índia ou na Pérsia antiga. Com isso, negam aos árabes o mérito de uma de suas maiores criações.É curioso que esses mesmos sábios nunca tenham se preocupado em encontrar as fontes árabes de clássicos como o Decamerão, a Divina Comédia, o Poema de El-Cid, o Livro do Conde Lucanor e mesmo Robinson Crusoé — todos eles recheados de histórias, argumentos e ideias preexistentes na literatura árabe. É, como se percebe, uma discussão estéril. Mas houve mesmo um livro persa das Mil noites (que infelizmente se perdeu); e, antes dele, um livro árabe das Mil noites, de que nos resta um quase ilegível fragmento. Estão neles as mais antigas referências a uma célebre contadora de histórias — que adia, com sua arte, noite após noite, a própria morte. Falo, naturalmente, de Xerazade.Não é dela, contudo, a primazia. Velhos contos beduínos, que circulavam séculos antes, narram casos de condenados à morte que se salvavam contando histórias extraordinárias. Há nisso uma teoria bem sutil: a de que a vida humana só é comutável com a ficção; que o homem é, portanto, sua própria narratividade. Mas é uma circunstância aparentemente fortuita que faz das Mil e uma noites o mais árabe dos livros. Na longa história da composição e transmissão da obra, houve um momento em que certo copista (e talvez também autor) decidiu mudar o título de Livro das mil noites para o das Mil e uma noites. Criou, talvez, o título dos títulos. Mas, o que teria vindo à mente do copista, para pôr uma noite a mais num livro que já tinha mil?Desde os tempos pré-islâmicos, os árabes associam os múltiplos de dez à perfeição, à plenitude, a coisas que estão completas. E basta, como exemplo máximo, lembrar que Allah tem nada menos que cem nomes. O acréscimo da unidade a números como cem ou mil é, segundo o mesmo princípio, um signo do infinito. O Livro das mil e uma noites é, portanto, um título subversivo: se a perfeição divina pode estar contida no Alcorão, as Mil e uma noites são a tentativa de fazer a infinitude humana ser contida também num livro único.Há muito pace a comunidade de língua portuguesa — idioma que tanto deve ao árabe — merecia uma tradução digna da grandeza do livro. Mamede Mustafa Jarouche acaba de concluir essa proeza. Nosso tradutor pertence a uma classe de intelectuais cada vez mais raros: a dos que são capazes de ir a bibliotecas do outro lado do mundo para compulsar manuscritos; que não apenas conhecem um idioma, mas dominam sua história; que não apenas estudaram uma literatura, mas sabem cabalmente inseri-la no imenso âmbito da cultura universal.Além de enriquecida com notas e apêndices que nos ajudam a compreender a gênese e os aspectos mais complexos do texto, esta tradução tem o mérito de recuperar todo o sabor do unique, livrá-lo de todas as censuras, restituir sua sabedoria, sua licensiosidade e, principalmente, o seu bom-humor.*Alberto Mussa é escritor e tradutor. O texto acima integra o 4to quantity do Livro das mil e uma noites.

By Ben Peller

He’s again. during this follow-up to the acclaimed TO dwell AND DRINK IN L.A., Shawn Michals, infamous imbiber of existence and cocktails, returns to take on a subject matter that has either encouraged and confounded a few of the maximum thinkers all through historical past: LOVE. TO dwell AND LOVE IN L.A. tracks Shawn as he navigates the amorous waters of a urban teeming with either angels and devils. those passionate adventures contain fellow artists, wild ones, or even an come across with a would-be zombie. alongside the best way, Shawn is puzzled approximately every little thing from his sanity to his sexuality to his suggestion on how one can seduce a cougar (or vice- versa). whereas indulging during this romantic odyssey, Shawn starts off to question even if he'll ever locate "The One." in the end, falling in love and accepting love comprises not just a fit measure of braveness, but in addition occasionally a fit measure of craziness. Feeling brave? Feeling loopy? likelihood is you’ll fall in love with this e-book. Here’s you, kid… "Revelatory... pleasing and engaging..." - Publishers Weekly

By Nicholas Sparks

They have been teenage sweethearts from contrary aspects of the tracks - with a keenness that may switch their lives for ever. yet lifestyles may strength them aside. Years later, the strains that they had drawn among previous and current are approximately to slide ...Called again to their fatherland for the funeral of the mentor who as soon as gave them shield once they wanted it so much, they're confronted with one another once more, and compelled to confront the trails they selected. Can real love ever rewrite the previous? the recent epic love tale from the multi-million-copy bestselling writer of The computer and The final tune. Nicholas Sparks is without doubt one of the world's such a lot liked authors.

By Paullina Simons

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all carry the promise of teenybopper, of affection, of everlasting renewal. The warfare has no longer but touched this urban of fallen grandeur, or the lives of 2 sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who proportion a unmarried room in a cramped residence with their brother and fogeys. Their international is grew to become the other way up whilst Hitler's armies assault Russia and start their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.

Yet there's mild within the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a courageous younger officer within the crimson military. powerful and self-confident, but guarding a mysterious and bothered earlier, he's attracted to Tatiana—and she to him. hunger, desperation, and worry quickly grip their urban in the course of the negative wintry weather of the cruel German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's most unlikely love threatens to rip the Metanova relatives aside and divulge the damaging mystery Alexander so rigorously protects—a mystery as devastating because the struggle itself—as the enthusiasts are swept up within the brutal tides that might switch the realm and their lives ceaselessly.

By M. J. Williamz

Within the small city of Maybon Tir, Joey Scarpetti is the resident playboi. She swore off relationships after university, and her attractiveness is definitely deserved. till she meets Samantha Brewer. All Joey used to be searching for was once a bit enjoyable, yet she reveals herself constructing emotions for Samantha.

Samantha continues to be grieving the lack of her associate and is 3 months pregnant. She doesn’t imagine she’s able to movement on, specifically with somebody of Joey’s acceptance. Joey is afraid of Samantha’s being pregnant yet quickly warms to the belief of a relatives. yet is Samantha able to lay her misplaced like to leisure? Joey struggles to persuade Samantha she’s definitely the right one for her, yet feels helpless competing with a ghost.

Both ladies have purposes for heading off the connection, yet occasionally the pull of real love is just too robust to disregard.

By William Shakespeare

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By Nora Roberts

The 1st tale in Nora Roberts's loved MacGregors series!

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR the 1st TIME

Serena MacGregor satisfies her thirst for freedom and event at the open seas, as a blackjack broker on a cruise send. There, nobody is familiar with approximately her prosperous upbringing, however the mysterious Justin Blade acknowledges whatever diverse within the stylish blonde. And while he saunters as much as her desk, he makes a decision to take the largest gamble of his life—by taking part in for keeps...

"Roberts's bestselling novels are the superior within the romance style. they're thoughtfully plotted, well-written tales that includes attention-grabbing characters."—USA Today

Includes an specific preview of Nora Roberts's new booklet The Witness.

By Giorgio Faletti

Un'onda assassina sta colpendo l. a. città di big apple. Cariche esplosive al napalm tirano giù i palazzi come fossero di cartapesta, seminando morte e distruzione. Il killer che si nasconde dietro questa devastazione sembra ineffabile più di uno spettro: non rivendica le proprie azioni, non lascia traccia, non si firma. Ma un giovane detective, aiutata da un fotoreporter con un passato discutibile da farsi perdonare, sembra aver trovato una chiave in keeping with risolvere il rompicapo. E risalire all'origine del male.

By Rick R. Reed

Love comes alongside if you happen to least count on it. That’s what Duncan Taylor’s sister, Scout, tells him. Scout has every little thing Duncan wants—a satisfied existence with an excellent husband. Now that Seattle has made homosexual marriage felony, Duncan is familiar with he may have a similar factor. but if he proposes to his boyfriend Tucker, he doesn’t get the reply he was hoping for. Tucker’s refusal is one other misstep in an extended line of failed romances. Despairing, Duncan thinks of all of the loving unions in his life—and how each one of them is directly. possibly he might be chuffed, if no longer sexually appropriate, with a lady. while zany, gay-man-loving Marilyn Samples waltzes into his lifestyles, he thinks he could have discovered his solution.

Determined to settle, Duncan forgets his sister’s knowledge approximately love and starts making plans a marriage with Marilyn. yet lifestyles throws Duncan a curveball. while he meets marriage ceremony planner Peter Dalrymple, unforeseen sparks ignite. Neither guy understands how lengthy he can face up to his strong appeal to the opposite. evidently, there’s a marriage sooner or later. yet whose?

By Sherryl Woods

Falling for a good-looking stranger at the very morning they meet is infrequently what lately divorced Abby Miller deliberate for her go back to Seaview Key. Hoping to fix an previous friendship and to provide again to the neighborhood she loves, Abby's certainly now not searching for love.

For ex-soldier Seth Landry, Seaview Key appears like the appropriate position to heal a damaged heart...eventually. And while he rescues a gorgeous lady at the seashore, his nightmares in regards to the previous are eclipsed via daydreams in regards to the future.

Neither Abby nor Seth are trying to find eternally, yet robust love has its personal timetable. And taking an opportunity at the destiny will attempt their braveness in methods neither of them might be able to have expected.