In a spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, Godofredo walks in on his wife in the embrace of his best friend and business partner, and struggles alternately with the need to defend his honor and his need for domestic tranquility

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Product Description: En el estilo único y en el universo plural de Eça de Queirós se puede hallar una versatilidad temática que va del mundo etnofantástico y del maravilloso bíblico al irresistible mundo de las mujeres adúlteras o a la crítica de costumbres...read more

Set in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Amâelia, and their interactions with Amâelia's mother, her atheist suitor, and her mother's lover, the priest Canon Dias.

Product Description: England in the 1880s: the aristocracy stoically endures the tedium of country-bound weeks in winter, when fashion forbids their showing themselves in London. Lord Beaconsfield's death is mourned - and a national myth is buried. The Times remains the watchdog of the English conscience...read more

Product Description: PROLOGO:Amigo 1. (Bebiendo conac y soda, bajo los arboles de una terraza, a orillas del agua.)Camarada; durante estos calores que embotan la imaginacion, descansemos del aspero estudio de las Realidades humanas.... Partamos hacia los campos del Ensueno, a vagar por esas azuladas colinas donde se levanta la torre abandonada de lo Sobrenatural y frescos musgos cubren amorosamente las ruinas del Idealismo...read more

Product Description: 1930. With an introduction by John Garrett Underhill. Novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading intellectuals of the Generation of 1870. Eca de Queiroz introduced naturalism and realism to Portuguese literature. He is considered the major novelist of his generation...read more

Product Description: "Eça de Queiros (1845-1900) ought to be," as the London Observer stated, "up there with Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy as one of the talismanic names of the nineteenth century." His superlative penultimate novel, The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900) centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to the most noble family of Portugal...read more