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  The Maias

  by Eça de Queirós

  In this simple tale, the novel's hero is the talented heir to a notable family in Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts, and in politics. But he enters a society affected by powerful international influences-French intellectual developments, English trading practices-that trouble and frustrate him. In the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual helplessness... (more)
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  The Crime of Father Amaro

  by Eça de Queirós

  An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, now 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) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday celebration are... (more)
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  The City and the Mountains

  by Eça de Queirós

  Eça de Queirós's late 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 estate in Portugal which he has never visited. He mixes with the crème de la crème of Paris society, but is monumentally bored. And then he receives a letter from his estate... (more)
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  O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra

  by Eça de Queirós, Ramalho Ortigão

  Há catorze anos, numa noite de Verão, no Passeio Público, em frente de duas chávenas de café, penetrados pela tristeza da grande cidade que em torno de nós cabeceava de sono ao som de um soluçante pot-pourri dos Dois Foscaris, deliberámos reagir sobre nós mesmos e acordar tudo aquilo a berros, num romance tremendo, buzinado à Baixa das alturas do Diário de Notícias. Para esse fim, sem plano, sem método, sem... (more)
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  O Primo Basilio

  by Eça de Queirós

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  The Illustrious House of Ramires

  by Eça de Queirós

  Eça de Queirós, The Illustrious House of Ramires. Ironic comedy by the master of Portuguese realism.