Eca De Queiroz: 5 books

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eça de Queiroz entre os seus constituiu, na época em que foi dado ao público, uma reacção contra apreciações críticas que, durante muito tempo, haviam de fazer escola. Na Quinta de Vila Nova, em Santa Cruz do Douro, concelho de Baião - a mítica Tormes de#39;A Cidade e as Serras, hoje sede da...