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Terra Nostra, perhaps Fuentes' most ambitious novel, is a "massive, Byzantine work" that tells the story of all Hispanic civilization. [2] Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans.
Saudades da Terra is a manuscript, was published by father Gaspar Frutuoso, which forms a reference work on Macaronesia in the late 16th century. The manuscript was written between 1586 and 1590, [ 1 ] divided into two volumes, based on the author's observations, providing a detailed description of the archipelagos of the Azores , Madeira and ...
Terra Nostra (English: Our Land) is a Brazilian telenovela, produced and broadcast by TV Globo in 1999. [1] The telenovela is written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa and directed by Jayme Monjardim . The story is set in the late 19th century and takes place at a time when slaves were freed in Brazil and there was a need for workers, especially on ...
Órfãos da Terra (English: Orphans of a Nation) [1] is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo, from 2 April 2019 to 27 September 2019. [2] The telenovela is written by Duca Rachid and Thelma Guedes, with Dora Castellar, Aimar Labaki, Carolina Ziskind and Cristina Biscay as co-writers.
Evil Con Carne: The series takes place in a year 2002 where the League of Nations still existed. 2004–05 Zipang: A Japanese warship is sent back in time to World War II, altering much of the situation at Midway, but also alters the loss of USS Wasp (CV-7), in which she is destroyed by a Tomahawk missile instead of being lost to a submarine. 2006
The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published between 1983 and 1996 by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and by Houghton Mifflin in the US. They collect and analyse much of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, compiled and edited by his son Christopher Tolkien.
Scum of the Earth is a memoir by Anglo-Hungarian writer Arthur Koestler in which he describes his life in France during 1939-1940, the chaos that prevailed in France just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War and France’s collapse, his tribulations, internment in a concentration camp, and eventual escape to England, via North Africa and Portugal.
Cimon and Pero, Rubens (c.1625). Roman Charity (Latin: Caritas Romana; Italian: Carità Romana) or Cimon and Pero is an ancient Greek and Roman exemplary story (exemplum) of filial piety (pietas) in which a woman secretly breastfeeds her father or mother, incarcerated and supposedly sentenced to death by starvation.