This collection of essays by Eugene England demonstrates his contention that life without participation in the Church is not life at all. He shows that members of the LDS Church can participate in the Church without abandoning the intellect.

Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel (Mormon Literary Library)

England, Eugene

Religion & Spirituality

Luso-Brazilian Books

For more than a century, LDS Church members in New York City and its suburbs struggled to build houses of worship, survive the great depression, and teach their neighbors who they are and what they believe. Their efforts came as New York City transformed itself into a world capital of finance, entertainment and media. To tell this fascinating and important story, the New York Stake History Committee will released this book to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the New York Stake.

City Saints: Mormons in the New York Metropolis

History

Tiffany, Scott

Americas

The Life of Thomas Kearns

Biographies & Memoirs

Larsen, Kent S.

Historical

José de Alencar's love story, which might be thought of as a Brazilian "Pocahontas," tells how Iracema meets and falls in love with the Portuguese colonist Martim. Their child, named Moacir, represents the union of the Portuguese with the native people, from whom the Brazilian people arise. But, tragically, Iracema dies, metaphorically demonstrating that the cost of this union is the life of the native peoples of Brazil. Iracema is considered the most important work of Brazil's romantic period, and one of the most important novels in the 500 years of Brazilian literature.

Iracema (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira)

Literature & Fiction

José De Alencar

Literary

Representing the height of Brazilian Naturalism, O Cortiço is Aluísio Azevedo's critique of unchecked ambition in Brazilian society of his day. João Romão, an imigrant Portuguese man, builds a tenement (Cortiço) on the money and work of his mulatto lover, Bertoleza. The tenement's residents fight with those of another tenement, leading to a fire that destroys much of the building. But Romão rebuilds and is soon wealthy and looks to marry an educated woman, leaving Bertoleza, who kills herself.

O Cortiço (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Azevedo, Aluísio

One of the greatest novels of Brazilian Literature, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man who recounts the amorous misadventures of his unheroic life and explains his half-hearted political ambitions. While it is considered the first novel of Brazilian realism, its quirks seem refreshingly modern and make it unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it.

Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria

A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Capitu, who overcome their parents' reluctance to marry. But Bento jealously suspects that their son is not his. But beyond this straightforward plot, Machado plays with the reader's expectations and comments on the structure of the story, blurring the line between fiction and reality and appearing very modern.

Dom Casmurro (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

De, Assis Machado

A novel of manners written at the height of Brazil's romantic period, Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias broke the customs of the genre, with characters doing both good and bad. Leonardo, an extremely likeable loafer and ne'er-do-well, is drafted into the local militia after an affair with a mulatto woman goes wrong. But when Leonardo gets in trouble with the Major of the militia, the women in his life convince the Major to pardon him and promote him to Sargeant.

Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias (Classicos da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Almeida, Manuel António de

Contemporary

In a criticism of Brazil's militaristic turn-of-the-century Republic, Barreto tells the story of Policarpo Quaresma, a fanatically-patriotic Major with unusual ideas about what Brazil should be--a tupi-guarani-speaking country with an agriculture-based economy. During the Squadron revolt against the Floriano government, Major Quaresma at first supports the government, but then become disallusioned with it after prisioners in his care are ordered slaughtered.

O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Barreto, Lima

A sarcastic criticism of the science of its day, O Alientista tells the story of psychiatrist Simão Bacamarte, who convinces the town of Itaguaí to pay for an assylum, and begins to fill it with residents he believes insane. While the assylum at first has a few patients, it grows quickly until, after a revolt by many in the town is fought off, it includes 4/5ths of the town! Realizing something is wrong, Bacamarte releases those committed saying that those committed are infact normal. Instead, he concludes, the insane are those who are considered normal or exemplary. Then his friends convince him that he is, in fact, exemplary. . .

O Alienista (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

Assis, MacHado De

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