A QUIET AFTERNOON
A slower kind of reading
Walden
A cabin, a pond, and a closer look at how we live.
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A good book.
A world away.
Sea voyages, quiet woods, strange encounters. Find your next story in English, in a reading home made in Brazil.
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A LITTLE ADVENTURE
Adventure at sea
Treasure Island
A map, a sea voyage, and a crew with secrets.
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Ghost stories from Japan
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Strange encounters at the edge of the everyday.
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One tense sitting
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A bridge, a suspended moment, and the mind’s attempt to escape.
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AN INDEPENDENT VOICE · ENGLISH EDITION
The Destroyer of Worlds
A village in ashes. An ancestral relic. Yara follows the signs of a danger that reaches far beyond the forests she calls home.
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Settle into the story.
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LITERUNICO · THE READING ROOM
CHAPTER ONE
Economy
Walden · Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond…
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Meet Machado de Assis and Júlia Lopes de Almeida through books from our Brazilian collection. Keep the original titles close. There is a whole literary country to get to know.
These editions are in Portuguese. Each book shows its reading language before you open it.
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Portuguese edition
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Brás Cubas looks back on his life from beyond the grave.
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Portuguese edition
Memórias de Martha
A Brazilian novel by Júlia Lopes de Almeida.
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Portuguese edition
A Cartomante
Love, secrecy and the promise of a reassuring prediction.
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Made in Brazil.
Made for people
who love books.
A book can start as a draft, find its first readers, and grow into a world of its own.
Literunico brings reading, writing and publishing into one Brazilian literary platform. Authors share their work, readers discover books, and conversations continue beyond the last page.
This English entrance is a place to begin: explore English editions, get acquainted with Brazilian literature, and find a voice you want to follow.
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A little guidance for your first visit.
Which books can I read in English?
Choose English editions in the bookshelf to find books with English text. Our Brazilian selection includes Portuguese editions, with the reading language shown on each book page.
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Each book shows its available chapters, free previews and purchase options before you read.
How do I read on Literunico?
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