José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with, as he said, "no digressions, no rhetoric," where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns Godofredo Alves, a successful, buoyant businessman who returns home to find his wife "on the yellow damask sofa... leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man..." The man is none other than Machado, his best friend and business partner. Godofredo struggles with the public need to defend his honor, and a stronger inner desire for forgiveness and domestic tranquillity. The Babel Guide to Portuguese Fiction notes, "The genius of this book is how Eça captures all the emotional fluctuations... and with such accuracy. The result is an enjoyable humorous novella that is simultaneously breathtakingly ironic." The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac and Tolstoy.

The Yellow Sofa (New Directions Classics)

DE QUEIROZ, EÇA

Eça de Queirós, José Maria

Literature & Fiction

New Directions

"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--

The Falling Snow and other Stories

Genre Fiction

The Catholic University of America Press

The Relic

Religion & Spirituality

O Crime do Padre Amaro, perhaps the greatest novel of Portuguese realism, is Queirós' criticism of the corrpution in the clergy of his time. A new priest, Father Amaro, arrives in the provincial capital Leiria, where he soon meets and falls in love with Amélia. She becomes pregnant, and is abandoned by Amaro. Heartbroken, Amélia dies. Faced with the existence of his newborn child when he is a 'disciple of God,' Amaro delivers the child to an infanticide, the 'maker of angels.'

O Crime Do Padre Amaro (Classicos da Literatura Portuguesa)

Literary

Luso-Brazilian Books

O Primo Bazílio (Portuguese Edition)

Humor & Satire

Independently published

En El primo Basilio se narra el adulterio de Luisa, que traiciona a su esposo aprovechando la ausencia de este, cayendo gozosa en los brazos de un primo con quien había mantenido un noviazgo en su juventud. Historia de seducción y chantaje, es también retrato de las pequeñeces y miserias de una sociedad y de una clase social dominadas por el peso asfixiante de la mediocridad, e integra, junto con Madame Bovary, La Regenta, Ana Karenina y Effi Briest, la brillante constelación de lo que podría llamarse «novelas de adulterio» del siglo XIX.

El primo Basilio (Spanish Edition)

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

En El crimen del padre Amaro —novela en la que un párroco de provincias, amparado en la impunidad que le proporciona su condición de clérigo, se ve arrastrado por la pasión y el deseo a la degradación moral— el autor aborda el tema del celibato eclesiástico en una sociedad dominada por el oscurantismo y la omnipotencia de la Iglesia católica.

El crimen del padre Amaro (Spanish Edition)

El conde de Abranhos: (Apuntes biográficos de Z. Zagalo)

Acantilado

La correspondencia de Fradique Mendes (Spanish Edition)

Random House]

Alves & C.ª

Penguin Clásicos

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