Projeto de um Romance, Sanditon, Os Watsons, Os Capítulos Originais de 'Persuasão': Juntas, estas quatro obras - dois fragmentos de romances inacabados, um esboço para um novo romance e os capítulos originais de um dos seus grandes romances - revelam o desenvolvimento de Jane Austen como uma grande artista e escritora. Escrito por volta de 1804, deixado inacabado, terminado por sua sobrinha Catherine Hubback e publicado na metade do século XIX, com o título The Younger Sister, provavelmente abandonado após a morte dos pais da escritora, "OS WATSONS" é uma tentadora e altamente deliciosa história cuja vitalidade e otimismo centram-se sobre as perspectivas conjugais das irmãs Watson em uma pequena cidade provincial. "SANDITON", iniciado sob o título The Brothers, em 1817, deixado incompleto e publicado em 1925, foi o último romance escrito por Jane Austen, situado em uma cidade à beira-mar e seus temas dizem respeito à nova sociedade de consumo especulativo e prenunciam as grandes convulsões sociais provenientes da Revolução Industrial. "PROJETO DE UM ROMANCE" é um trabalho curto, de cunho satírico, escrito provavelmente em maio de 1816. Foi publicado em forma completa pela primeira vez por R. W. Chapman em 1926, tendo aparecido alguns extratos, em 1871. Considera-se que nesta obra, temos o relato mais importante do que Jane Austen entendia como sendo seus objetivos e sua visão pessoal como romancista. Nos Capítulos Originais de "PERSUASÃO" podemos aprender mais sobre o consumado talento artístico de Jane Austen e seus maravilhosos poderes de autocrítica; e que prova - de forma incontestável - o padrão de perfeição no qual ela insistia em todos os aspectos. Pois esse é de fato uma parte do rascunho final, acabado: o romance completo que, quando ela o escreveu, deixara-a satisfeita e tinha sido planejado para publicação. Mesmo assim, continuou a ser objeto de cuidadosa meditação, e as reflexões de uma noite a convenceram de que ainda poderia ser melhorado adiante.

This is a book in pursuit of translators’ philosophies or personal theories of translation. From Vladimir Nabokov and William Carlos Williams to Ursula K. Le Guin and Langston Hughes, Translators on Translation coaxes each subject’s reflections on their art, their particular view of translation, and how they carry out their specific form of translation. The translators’ intellectual biographies expand our understanding of their views, often in their own words, on the aesthetic, political, and philosophical nature of translation; lend insight into their translation decision-making on specific works; afford critical summaries and contextualizations of their key theoretical and theoretico-practical works; unearth their figurative conceptualizations of translation; and construct their subject identities. As a person’s body of work can be diffuse, scattered, fragmentary, and contradictory, inner lives have to be constructed and reconstructed. Through a recovery and narrativizing of their writing and speaking on translation, their interviews, paratextual commentary, letters, lecture notes, and even fiction and poetry, these late twentieth-century subjects answer the question, What is translation to you? The book is supported by additional translators’ profiles and selected translations on the Routledge Translation Studies portal. Translators on Translation is key reading for courses on translation practice, translation history, translation theory, and creative writing courses that engage in translation while also being vital reading for practicing literary translators.

Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. • Includes the story La Cote Basque featured in the major FX series Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans. "Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly." —The New York Times Book Review Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently finny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.

A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales is a collection of short stories ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. The book concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the Ring. Unfinished Tales also contains the only surviving story about the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known about the Five Wizards sent to Middle-earth as emissaries of the Valar, about the Seeing Stones known as the Palantiri, and about the legend of Amroth.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II—a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler’s horrors march closer and closer to their doors" (New York). “Stunning.... A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, as Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee Barcelona with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a sprawling, mythical town on the Mexico-US border, populated by mysterious characters and haunted by dark tales of murdered women. Returning to the the world and characters of 2666, Bolaño's masterpiece, Woes of the True Policeman explores the the power of art, memory and desire - and marks a kaleidoscopic, lyrical and darkly humorous last act in one of the great oeuvres of world literature. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER ‘Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic... Bolaño must be read by anyone who loves the novel’ Herald ‘We savour all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius’ Patti Smith

In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven.