Brazilian Tales

Dr. Isaac Goldberg, noted authority on Latin-American literature, selected for this volume half a dozen of the best-known short stories in Brazilian literature, and accompanied them with an extensive essay on Brazilian fiction in which he discusses the criteria that constitutes the birth of a national literature; for, Brazil was still under a linguistic and cultural domination of Portugal. This volume gives an opportunity to learn about and to know some of the outstanding authors of the great nation of Brazil in the Southern Hemisphere.