Portuguese Literature and History

This CD, with 48 books, consists mainly of literature in the Portuguese language, with a few books in English translation.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books (except for the World Factbook) are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents

Context of the contemporary world

• The CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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History and Travel

Angola

• Country Study of Angola (1989), by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under a program sponsored by the US Department of the Army
• Tables to the Country Study

Brazil

• Country Study of Brazil (1997), by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under a program sponsored by the US Department of the Army.
• Narrative of Services inthe Liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil from Spanish and Portguese Domination by Thomas Earl of Dumdonald
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt

Portugal

Country Study of Portugal (1993), by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under a program sponsored by the US Department of the Army

Tables to the Country Study

Chronica d'el-Rei D. Affonso III by Ruy de Pina

Constituicao Politica da Monarchia Portugueza

Declaration of the Causes which moved the Chief Commanders of the Navy of Her Most Excellent Majesty the queen of England in their Voyage and Expedition for Portugal, 1589

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson

Portuguese Literature

In Portuguese

Anonymous

• O Livro de Cesario Verde

As Farpas: Cronica Mensal da Politica, Das Letras e dos Costumes, by Ramalho Ortigao and Eca de Queiroz

• Jan. to Feb. 1873
• March to April 1873
• Oct. to Nov. 1873
• Jan. to Feb. 1877
• May to June 1877
• Aug. to Sept. 1877
• Jan. 1878
• Feb. to May 1878
• June to July 1882
• June 1883

Nocoloa Tolentino de Almeida (1740-1811)

• Obras Poeticas, volume 2

Guilherme d'Azevedo

• A Alma Nova, 1874

Camillo Castello Branco

• Amor de Perdicao

Theophilo Braga

• O Cancioneiro Portuguez da Vaticana

Trindade Coelho (1861-1908)

• Os Meus Amores, 1894

Julio Diniz (1839-1871) ( = Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho)

• Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca
• Uma Familia Ingleza, 1875

Florabella Espanca

• Livro de Maguas, 1919

Almeida Garrett (1799-1854)

• Frei Luiz de Sousa

Alexandre Herculano (1810-1877)

• Lendas e Narrativas
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Opuscolos
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 4
• volume 7

Guerra Junqueiro(1850-1923)

• Contos Para Infancia, 1877
• Os Simples, 1892

Antonio Nobre (1867-1900)

• So

Jose Mario Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900)

• O Mandarim
• A Reliquia

Antonio Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcellos

• Oracao Funebre

In languages other than Portugese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Sonnets from the Portuguese

Voltaire

• Candide (in French)