Eca de Queiros / Jose Maria Eca De Queiros

• Aug-1992
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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 w...

• Jan-1993
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• May-1994
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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 fa...

• 1995
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• Nov-1996
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A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a ...

• Jul-1999
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One of the key classics of Portuguese literature, by an author compared to Proust, Flaubert, Stendhal, Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

Eca de Queiros was Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, whose works brilliantly evoke--and conde...

• Jan-2003
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• Apr-2003
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An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture. Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira...

• Oct-2008
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Eça de Queirós's novel is a hymn to country life: The City and The Mountains satirizes the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself. Wonderfully funny, it bubbles with joie de vivre.

Born in Paris, Jacinto is the heir to a vast estat...

• Oct-2009
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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 live...

• Sep-2011
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"Dead how? As all of the men of the de Medranhos family were meant to die: doing battle with the Turk!"In "The Treasure," three down-at-heel noblemen, the de Medranhos brothers, stumble across a chest full of Moorish gold in the forest of Roquelanes ...

• Nov-2011
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• Apr-2012
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The Relic is an irreverent fictional autobiography narrating the picaresque adventures of Teodorico, a Portuguese playboy determined to be the sole heir of his absurdly pious, sexually repressed, and tyrannical Auntie. Sent to the Holy Land, he retur...

• May-2013
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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 ...

• Apr-2015
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Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, Eça de Queirós’s novella, Saint Christopher, is a powerful indictment of those who profess the value of morality but who do not practice it. The narrative is just as relevant toda...

• Mar-2020
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• Feb-2025
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Never before in English, this delectable novella offers a hilarious new version of Genesis, where, rather than living in innocent bliss, Adam and Eve live in terror of being stomped by an IchthyosaurusGloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Ada...

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