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“eca de queiroz”

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  • The Mandarin(and other stories)

    by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz ...
    Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal�s greatest novelist and one of its finest prose writers. In The Mandarin he turns his satirical eye on the sin of avarice and asks the following question: ‘In the depths of China there lives a mandarin who is richer than any king spoken of in fable or in history. You know nothing about him, not his name, his face or the silks that he ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Mystery of the Sintra Road

    by Eca de Queiroz ...
    Eça de Queiroz's first novel and Portugal’s first mystery-cum-detective novel in its first English translation Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent are men of the best society. One of the friends is a doctor, and the masked men say that they need him to assist a noblewoman, who is about to give birth. When they reach the house, they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cousin Bazilio

    by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz ...
    Cousin Bazilio is a tale of sexual folly and hypocrisy and vividly depicts bourgeois life in 19th-century Lisbon. "Sauciness and scandal come as part of the enticing package in this 1878 European classic by Portugal's most celebrated 19th century writer. Cousin Bazilio might not be his best work, but it certainly drew the most attention when it was originally published, for all the wrong reasons ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Alves & Co and Other Stories

    by Eca de Queiroz ...
    In this volume, comprising one short novel and six short stories, the reader is introduced to a dazzling variety of worlds and characters: a deceived husband who finds that jealousy is not the answer, a lovelorn Greek poet-turned-waiter working in a Charing Cross hotel, a saintly young woman soured by love, a follower of St Francis who learns that an entire life of virtue can be besmirched by one ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • The House of Ulloa

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  • The Woman and the Puppet

    by Pierre Louys ...
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  • The Vineyard

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    by Maria Duenas ...
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  • The Illustrious House of Ramires

    by José Maria de Eça de Queirós ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    In a brilliant new translation, the wonderful penultimate novel by Eça de Queirós: “Portugal's greatest novelist” (José Saramago)The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eça de Queirós aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family ... Read more

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  • A Manuscript of Ashes

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    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
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    Translated by Robert Scott-Buccleuch ...
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  • The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    New York Times Critics’ Best of the YearA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as ... Read more

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