Fario: 74 books

“The fact is, gentlemen, that I no longer loved anything but money. Ah! How I loved it!”Stendhal's Filippo Ebreo, narrator of a story first published in 1855, recalls his past as a peddler in Venice and a follower of the coalition armies invading France in the wake of Napoleon's defeat.Genre: short storyDate of English translation: 2012

"On 1 February and 1 June of every year the clothes of the favored man shall become as they were the third time he wore them.""The Privileges" is a brief collection of the favors Stendhal, not long before his death, would have had a god bestow on him. Translated by Juan LePuen.Genre: miscellanyLength: 1,700 wordsDate of English translation: 2012.

This collection includes "Recollections of an Italian Gentleman," "The Jew," "The Chest and the Ghost," and "Philibert Lescale." All of the stories are newly translated, and two of them are appearing in English for what is perhaps the first time.Genre: short storiesLength: 26,000 wordsDate of English translation: 2012

Panait Istrati's _The Haiduks_ is a tale of cruelty and injustice (and of those who would combat these scourges) set in a Romania bled white by the ferocity of an occupying power and the greed of its native aristocracy. "The marvelous storytelling talent," notes José Carlos Mariátegui,...

The mid-1980s in a moribund Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Two emissaries from a booming Japan meet unexpectedly vicious resistance from a class of ne'er-do-well high-school students.Genre: short storyWords: 2,335

Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it. Genre:...

Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was the finest storyteller of nineteenth-century Latin America. "Midnight Mass and Other Stories" offers a selection of Machado's tales, from the oft-translated and sly erotic title story, a classic of Brazilian literature, to such brief ironic tales,...

"Thus passed through the world that neglected hero, that very dear friend of our childhood: Gentleman Carmelo, the foremost of warriors, and the final descendant of those pure-blooded and noble gamecocks, whose unanimous prestige was, for years, the pride of the entire green and fertile Caucato Valley."

Máximo, an impoverished young poet and student, inherits a fortune on the unexpected death of his godfather. His own fortunes, however, are not greatly improved.Genre: short storyLength: 5,400 wordsTranslated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen

The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis. Length: 4,000 words. Date of English translation: 2012.

When Luís Negreiros returns home from the office one evening, he finds a fine watch and chain on a table in his bedroom. The watch isn't his and can't be his young and beautiful wife Clarinha's, either. Whose is it then? Luís Negreiros's suspicions are immediately aroused. Translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen Genre: short story Length: 2,820 words

Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class. Genre: short story Length: 3,000 words Translated...

"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started laughing."So says Dona Paula to her husband Xavier before they start playing...

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 and plan to carry it up the mountains to their wrecked manor, the Paços de Medranhos. The brothers' plan, it goes without saying, fails. Genre: short story Words: 2,600