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Queiroz
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Os Maias (Fiction, Poetry and Drama) |
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Portuguese (Portugal) |
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Mass Market Paperback |
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9725681363 |
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Editora Ulisseia |
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3 MonCol (Portugal), Carina (Portugal), MonCol (Portugal) |
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3 John (United Kingdom), John (United Kingdom), tehanu (USA: CA) |
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Product Description
Poetry
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MonCol (Portugal) (2008/10/04):
Carlos is the talented heir to a notable family in fin-de-siecle 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 and in the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual helplessness. Carlos' good intentions decline, amiably, into dilettantism; his passionate love affair itself begins to suffer a devastating constraint. "The Maias" tells a compelling story of characters whose lives become as real and engrossing as any in Flaubert, Balzac or Dickens. This is his masterpiece, a novel of intellectual depth, historical compassion and great wit. Hailed as a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this remains Eca's most popular novel. Source: amazon.co.uk
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