Garduña
Greed, inheritance, and the fragile fortunes of Paraíso in a Puerto Rican novel.
Puerto Rico · 1896
Spanish to English
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Flowers in the Mirror
Flower spirits, extraordinary voyages, and women’s learning in a Chinese classic.
China · Early 1800s
Chinese to English
Essay on the Passions
How passions take hold, persist, and end: love, ambition, belief, and the life of feeling.
Psychology · 1907 edition
French to English
Phantasmagoria
Ghost shows, optical illusions, balloon flights, and European travels, with the original illustrations.
Memoirs · 1840 edition · Two volumes
French to English
The Medeiros Family
Family loyalty, forbidden love, and the struggle against slavery on a Brazilian coffee plantation.
Brazil · 1894 edition
Portuguese to English
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Under Humble Roofs
Henri Bachelin · Sous d’humbles toits · French
Rural and small-town life in eighteen prose pieces.
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Lésbia
Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann (Délia) · Portuguese
A woman’s development as a writer in nineteenth-century Brazil.
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