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The Maias

  • ISBN-13: 9781857546088
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Eca de Queiros
  • Price: AUD $74.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/04/2002
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 134.00mm) 634 pages Weight: 398g
  • Categories: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) [FC]
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Carlos, heir to a notable fin-de-siècle Lisbon family, aspires to serve his fellow men as a doctor, in the arts and politics. But Lisbon society is so subject to international pressures that he cannot succeed and declines into amiable dilletantism. Hailed as a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this remains Eça's most popular novel.
Eca de Queiros (1845-1900) was Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. His works brilliantly evoke, and condemn, the rapidly changing society of his time. He travelled widely as a diplomat and, though he considered himself an apostle of Naturalist Realism, he is at heart an ironist, with the severity and compassion of Stendhal.
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