Jose Maria Eca De Queiroz: 2 books
by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
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...
by Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
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...