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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A fierce, visionary account of Portugal under Napoleon's shadow, now available in English.In King Junot, Portuguese modernist writer Raul Brandão turns the French invasion of Portugal into something far greater than a military episode. This is not a conventional history of generals, treati…es, and campaigns; it is a dramatic meditation on fear, decadence, revolt, faith, empire, and the suffering of ordinary people caught in the machinery of power.At the center of the book stands Jean-Andoche Junot, Napoleon's general, who entered Lisbon in 1807 and briefly ruled Portugal in the name of imperial France. Around him Brandão gathers a vast and unforgettable cast: Napoleon, the Portuguese royal court fleeing to Brazil, frightened ministers, compromised nobles, friars, soldiers, peasants, satirists, conspirators, and the restless crowds of Lisbon and the provinces.Written in Brandão's intense, poetic, and often prophetic prose, King Junot blends historical documentation with literary force. It evokes the collapse of an old world and the birth of a new one through invasion, humiliation, popular resistance, and political awakening. The result is a powerful work of historical literature: part chronicle, part essay, part national tragedy.This complete English translation brings to modern readers one of Raul Brandão's most striking works - a book essential for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Wars, the Peninsular War, Portuguese history, literary history, and the drama of Europe in revolution.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A moonlit river. A woman in white, playing the harp from a drifting boat. A hidden cave, a whispered legend, and a queen who seems to belong to no ordinary world.In The Queen of the Unknown, Emilia Freitas blends Gothic mystery, romantic obsession, social critique, and visionary fantasy int…o a singular novel of secret identities and hidden power. When the young lawyer Edmundo becomes fascinated by the enigmatic woman known as "the Ill-Fated One," his curiosity draws him into a labyrinth of illusions, coded messages, disguises, and revelations. Beneath the novel's haunting atmosphere lies something even more daring: a female-led utopian order devoted to justice, mercy, and resistance against cruelty.By turns lyrical, uncanny, political, and philosophical, this pioneering Brazilian classic offers readers a rare literary experience-part mystery, part feminist fantasy, part spiritual allegory. This edition presents the complete English translation, inviting modern readers to rediscover one of the most original works of nineteenth-century Brazilian literature. The novel was published in 1899 and is widely regarded as a pioneering Brazilian fantasy/speculative work centered on a women-led utopian society. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Mystery of Christmas is Henrique Coelho Netto's poetic and devotional reimagining of the birth of Christ, written with the rich cadence, symbolic intensity, and dramatic elegance that made him one of the most celebrated Brazilian prose writers of the early twentieth century.Rather than…presenting the Nativity merely as a familiar religious episode, Coelho Netto transforms it into a vivid spiritual drama: the journey, the expectation, the poverty of the manger, the awe of creation, the adoration of humble shepherds, and the arrival of the Magi all unfold in language of great beauty and solemnity.This edition offers an integral English translation of the original Portuguese work, preserving its biblical atmosphere, lyrical rhythm, and sacred tone while making it accessible to contemporary readers. Ideal for lovers of classic Christian literature, Brazilian literary heritage, public-domain classics, and Christmas devotional reading, The Mystery of Christmas invites the reader to encounter the Nativity not only as history, but as wonder.A moving literary meditation on faith, humility, prophecy, and divine light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A haunting literary reimagining of Judas Iscariot, rendered in a lyrical and dramatic prose that gives voice to one of the most enigmatic figures in biblical history.First published in Lisbon in 1901, Judas: A Lyrical Romance in Four Journeys is Augusto de Lacerda's bold meditation on betra…yal, conscience, desire, faith, and destiny. Rather than presenting Judas merely as a symbol of treachery, Lacerda explores him as a tormented human being caught between spiritual longing, political expectation, personal passion, and the terrible weight of history.Structured in four "journeys," the novel unfolds with the cadence of a sacred drama. Its language is poetic, intense, and theatrical, moving through the atmosphere of ancient Jerusalem while examining the moral abyss that separates devotion from disillusionment. Readers interested in biblical fiction, literary classics, theological imagination, and psychological portraits of misunderstood figures will find in this work a rare and powerful rediscovery from Portuguese literature.This English edition brings a classic to new readers, preserving the solemn beauty and emotional force of Lacerda's original vision. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A haunting Renaissance classic of love, exile, memory, and longing-now available in English.Saudades: The Story of a Maiden and a Young Woman is one of the great early works of Portuguese prose fiction and a landmark of Iberian pastoral literature. Written by Bernardim Ribeiro in the sixtee…nth century, this deeply lyrical romance opens with one of the most memorable voices in Portuguese letters: a young woman, taken far from home, looking back upon a life transformed by love, loss, and remembrance.Blending pastoral beauty, courtly emotion, philosophical melancholy, and the uniquely Portuguese feeling of saudade, Ribeiro creates a world where memory is more powerful than presence, love is inseparable from suffering, and every story seems to echo another hidden grief. The novel moves through confessions, encounters, and tales of devotion, revealing a delicate emotional landscape in which the inner life becomes the true setting of the narrative.This English translation preserves the solemn cadence, poetic density, and antique tenderness of the original while making the work accessible to modern readers. For lovers of Renaissance literature, early European fiction, Portuguese classics, and meditative stories of longing, Saudades offers a rare encounter with one of the foundational voices of Portugal's literary imagination.A timeless book for readers drawn to love, memory, solitude, and the beauty of sorrow. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A haunting Portuguese classic of passion, guilt, betrayal, and moral ruin - available in English for a new generation of readers.In Death Prevails, Portuguese novelist Joao Jose Grave delivers a dark and psychologically intense story of desire, weakness, and inevitable consequence. Set betw…een the emotional restraint of domestic life and the dangerous allure of forbidden passion, the novel follows characters caught in a web of longing, deception, remorse, and spiritual exhaustion.At the center of the story lies the destructive force of passion when severed from loyalty, conscience, and moral duty. Grave portrays human frailty with remarkable sensitivity: the erosion of trust, the torment of guilt, the humiliation of betrayal, and the tragic awareness that some choices cannot be undone. With its atmosphere of melancholy, moral tension, and fatalism, Death Prevails stands as a powerful example of early twentieth-century Portuguese fiction.This English edition offers a complete translation of A Morte Vence, preserving the emotional density, psychological drama, and literary elegance of the original work while making it accessible to modern readers. Ideal for lovers of European classics, tragic romance, psychological fiction, and rediscovered works of Portuguese literature. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A haunting collection of Portuguese symbolist tales, now presented in English for modern readers.In Restless Evening: Stories, Antonio Patricio invites the reader into a world of feverish beauty, spiritual unrest, psychological tension, and luminous decay. First published in 1920 as Serao I…nquieto, this collection gathers six remarkable prose works: "Dialogue with an Eagle," "The Precocious Child," "The Man of the Fountains," "Suze," "Veiga," and "Words."Patricio's fiction moves between dream and confession, satire and tragedy, tenderness and cruelty. His characters are often caught at the edge of revelation: a child too sensitive for the world, a man haunted by water and memory, a fading romantic soul, a woman rendered through fragments of desire and illusion, and voices struggling to give shape to the unsayable.Elegant, intense, and atmospheric, these stories belong to the fin-de-siecle tradition of European symbolism while remaining distinctly Portuguese in their melancholy, irony, and lyrical force. This edition offers a complete English translation, accompanied by editorial notes that preserve the historical and literary texture of the original.For readers of decadent literature, symbolist prose, psychological fiction, and overlooked European classics, Restless Evening is an extraordinary rediscovery. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A landmark memoir of political awakening, intellectual formation, and moral conviction from one of Brazil's greatest abolitionist statesmen.In The Making of a Statesman: My Formation, Joaquim Nabuco reflects on the people, books, cities, institutions, and historical events that shaped his m…ind and public life. Moving from his youth in Brazil to his encounters with Europe, England, France, the United States, diplomacy, literature, religion, and parliamentary politics, Nabuco offers far more than a personal memoir: he presents a rare portrait of a nineteenth-century conscience formed at the crossroads of empire, liberalism, monarchy, and abolition.At the heart of the book lies Nabuco's lifelong struggle against slavery and his belief that political life must be guided by moral responsibility. His memories of Massangana, his reflections on the English constitutional spirit, his observations of American democracy, and his account of the abolitionist movement reveal the inner development of a man who became one of the principal voices of Brazil's campaign against slavery.Elegant, introspective, and historically rich, this edition brings an essential Brazilian classic to English-language readers, offering a powerful window into the final decades of the Brazilian Empire and the formation of one of Latin America's most important public intellectuals.Ideal for readers interested in Brazilian history, abolitionism, political memoirs, nineteenth-century liberal thought, constitutional monarchy, diplomacy, and the intellectual history of the Americas. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Unfortunate: Stories from Life is an English translation of Infelizes: Historias Vividas, a remarkable collection by Portuguese writer and feminist pioneer Ana de Castro Osorio. Through a series of intimate and deeply human stories, Osorio gives literary voice to those often pushed to t…he margins of society: poor women, abandoned children, servants, the elderly, rural workers, widows, nuns, mothers, and solitary figures marked by poverty, illness, injustice, and loss.Written with moral clarity and emotional restraint, these stories reveal a world shaped by rigid social expectations, gender inequality, class hardship, religious custom, and rural dispossession. Yet Osorio's characters are never reduced to mere victims. They endure, remember, suffer, resist, and preserve their dignity even when society refuses to see them fully.This edition includes a translator's preface, editorial notes, chapter-by-chapter translation notes, and an afterword, offering historical and cultural context for modern readers. Carefully translated and prepared for contemporary English-language audiences, The Unfortunate: Stories from Life is an essential work for readers interested in Portuguese literature, women writers, feminist literary history, social realism, and forgotten public-domain classics. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Amazon Book Description - The Farce by Raul BrandaoIn The Farce, Raul Brandao transforms a provincial Portuguese town into a stage of grief, hypocrisy, poverty, religious fear, social cruelty, and spiritual anguish. Around a deathbed, a coffin shop, old women wrapped in ritual piety, and ru…ined lives consumed by resentment, Brandao builds one of the most haunting psychological landscapes in Portuguese literature.At the center of the novel stands Candidinha, a woman shaped by humiliation, hunger, envy, and a lifelong thirst for revenge. Around her move Sofia, Anacleto, Joana, Antoninho, and a gallery of grotesque yet profoundly human figures, each trapped between misery and illusion. Brandao's prose is intense, atmospheric, and visionary: fog, granite, rain, death, silence, and despair become living presences.First published in the early twentieth century, The Farce is not merely a social novel. It is a dark meditation on the masks people wear, the violence hidden beneath respectability, and the tragic comedy of human existence. This English translation brings to modern readers a powerful work of Portuguese literary modernism, preserving the author's dense imagery, moral intensity, and unforgettable voice.For readers of Dostoevsky, Eca de Queiros, Camilo Castelo Branco, Jose Saramago, and European psychological fiction, The Farce offers a disturbing, poetic, and deeply original encounter with the human soul. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A haunting nineteenth-century Portuguese novel of love, injustice, race, pride, and moral endurance.First published in 1864, The Black Doctor's Daughter is one of Camilo Castelo Branco's powerful romantic novels, combining social criticism with emotional intensity and a deeply human portrai…t of suffering. At its center is Albertina, the daughter of a learned Black Brazilian jurist living in Portugal, whose destiny becomes entangled with forbidden love, paternal authority, social prejudice, and the harsh judgments of respectable society.Through Albertina's story, Camilo explores the conflict between love and obedience, mercy and pride, freedom and reputation. Written with the author's characteristic irony, moral force, and dramatic sensitivity, the novel moves between intimate confession, social commentary, religious reflection, and passionate narrative.This English edition brings a classic of Portuguese literature to new readers, preserving the emotional richness, rhetorical elegance, and historical atmosphere of the original work. For readers of European classics, romantic fiction, social novels, and nineteenth-century literature, The Black Doctor's Daughter offers a compelling portrait of a world where private virtue struggles against public cruelty. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A darkly comic tale of vanity, greed, scandal, and moral ruin from one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists.In The Executioner of Victor Hugo Jose Alves, Camilo Castelo Branco turns his sharp satirical eye upon a world of petty ambition, social pretension, family calculation,… and romantic illusion. At the center of the story stands Victor Hugo Jose Alves, a man whose grand name far exceeds his moral stature, and whose descent becomes the occasion for one of Camilo's most biting portraits of human weakness.Blending irony, melodrama, social criticism, and psychological observation, the novel moves through the streets, homes, and moral compromises of Portuguese society with the wit and intensity that made Camilo one of the defining voices of nineteenth-century literature. Around Victor Hugo gather widows, daughters, opportunists, lovers, creditors, and avengers-each revealing, in turn, the comic and tragic machinery of reputation, desire, money, and power.This English edition presents the complete work in a carefully prepared translation, preserving the author's satirical force, narrative energy, and distinctive moral intelligence. It is ideal for readers of classic European fiction, Portuguese literature, literary satire, and nineteenth-century social novels. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A forgotten Portuguese historical novel of love, war, exile, and memory - now translated into English.In the streets of Porto, an old beggar known only as Misfortune wanders with a guitar beneath his arm, a faithful dog at his side, a silver medal from the Peninsular War on his breast, and…a mysterious gold ring on his finger. To the crowd, he is a curiosity - a relic of poverty, madness, and defeat. But behind the ring lies a life marked by love, vengeance, loss, and the violence of Napoleon's invasions of Portugal.Originally published in the nineteenth century, The Mysterious Ring: Scenes from the Peninsular War is Alberto Pimentel's dramatic romance of private tragedy set against one of the most turbulent periods in Portuguese history. From the French occupation of Porto to the battlefields of Europe, from family estates and military hospitals to exile, mourning, and redemption, the novel blends historical fiction, romantic melodrama, and urban legend into a moving portrait of a man broken by war and preserved by memory.This English edition includes a translator's preface, chapter notes, and an afterword, offering historical and cultural context for modern readers while preserving the emotional force and literary atmosphere of the original Portuguese text.For readers of classic historical fiction, nineteenth-century European literature, Napoleonic-era novels, and rediscovered works from the Portuguese literary tradition, The Mysterious Ring offers a haunting story of love, sacrifice, and the mysteries that survive long after history has moved on. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A bold, unsettling, and darkly witty novel from one of Brazil's great nineteenth-century masters.First published in 1896, A Mother-in-Law's Book is one of Aluisio de Azevedo's most provocative and least conventional works. At first glance, it appears to be a domestic comedy about the most f…eared figure in family life: the mother-in-law. But beneath its ironic surface lies a daring psychological novel about marriage, desire, motherhood, social convention, and the impossible search for lasting happiness.When a bachelor narrator visits his old friend Leandro, he expects to hear the usual complaints about Leandro's tyrannical mother-in-law. Instead, he finds a man who reveres her memory. The explanation lies in a mysterious manuscript left behind by Olympia, a fiercely intelligent woman who devoted her life to protecting her daughter from the disappointments of ordinary marriage.Through Olympia's voice, Azevedo constructs a startling critique of domestic life, exposing the tensions between love and habit, passion and respect, freedom and social respectability. Equal parts satire, confession, philosophical argument, and psychological drama, A Mother-in-Law's Book reveals a forgotten side of Brazilian Naturalism: intimate, ironic, uncomfortable, and astonishingly modern.This edition presents the novel in English translation, with an introduction, afterword, and translator's notes designed to guide contemporary readers through its cultural, historical, and linguistic context. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A luminous rediscovery of Portuguese literature, now presented in English.Nights in Cintra is a charming literary journey into one of Portugal's most romantic landscapes: the moonlit hills, gardens, palaces, roads, and legends of Cintra. Written with wit, nostalgia, and delicate irony, Albe…rto Pimentel's novel follows a group of friends who leave Lisbon in search of beauty, pleasure, conversation, and escape. What begins as an excursion soon becomes a tapestry of memory, sentiment, humor, and poetic observation.In this elegant work, Cintra is more than a setting. It is a living presence: mysterious, theatrical, seductive, and deeply tied to Portugal's cultural imagination. Pimentel captures the atmosphere of a vanished world, where friendship, courtship, literary allusion, and social comedy meet under the shadow of old estates and ancient hills.This complete English translation preserves the spirit of the original Portuguese text while making the work accessible to contemporary readers. Ideal for lovers of classic European fiction, Portuguese literature, literary travel writing, and atmospheric nineteenth-century storytelling, Nights in Cintra offers a rare opportunity to encounter a forgotten voice from Portugal's literary past. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A fierce, visionary account of Portugal under Napoleon's shadow, now available in English.In King Junot, Portuguese modernist writer Raul Brandao turns the French invasion of Portugal into something far greater than a military episode. This is not a conventional history of generals, treatie…s, and campaigns; it is a dramatic meditation on fear, decadence, revolt, faith, empire, and the suffering of ordinary people caught in the machinery of power.At the center of the book stands Jean-Andoche Junot, Napoleon's general, who entered Lisbon in 1807 and briefly ruled Portugal in the name of imperial France. Around him Brandao gathers a vast and unforgettable cast: Napoleon, the Portuguese royal court fleeing to Brazil, frightened ministers, compromised nobles, friars, soldiers, peasants, satirists, conspirators, and the restless crowds of Lisbon and the provinces.Written in Brandao's intense, poetic, and often prophetic prose, King Junot blends historical documentation with literary force. It evokes the collapse of an old world and the birth of a new one through invasion, humiliation, popular resistance, and political awakening. The result is a powerful work of historical literature: part chronicle, part essay, part national tragedy.This complete English translation brings to modern readers one of Raul Brandao's most striking works - a book essential for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Wars, the Peninsular War, Portuguese history, literary history, and the drama of Europe in revolution. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A forgotten Portuguese historical novel of love, loyalty, and civil war - now translated into English.The Heroes of Mindelo brings readers into one of the most turbulent moments in nineteenth-century Portugal: the Liberal Wars, when absolutists and constitutionalists struggled for the futur…e of the nation. Against this dramatic historical background, Faustino da Fonseca weaves a story of political conviction, family conflict, religious intrigue, romantic devotion, exile, courage, and sacrifice.At the heart of the novel is the clash between private feeling and public duty. Personal loyalties are tested by political violence; families are divided by ideology; and the fate of individuals becomes inseparable from the destiny of a country at war with itself. From rural estates and convent intrigues to military campaigns and the legendary liberal cause associated with Mindelo, the novel combines historical drama with the emotional force of nineteenth-century romantic fiction.Originally published in Portuguese in 1906, Os Bravos do Mindello is part of Faustino da Fonseca's broader work as a novelist, journalist, historian, and political writer. This English edition offers modern readers access to a vivid historical romance rooted in Portugal's struggle between absolutism and constitutional liberty.Ideal for readers of historical fiction, classic European literature, Portuguese history, political drama, and rediscovered classics. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A powerful tale of love, inheritance, downfall, and moral reckoning from one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists.In The Archdeacon's Granddaughter, Camilo Castelo Branco weaves a dramatic story marked by family secrets, social ambition, spiritual anguish, and the tragic cons…equences of desire ungoverned by conscience. Set against the moral and religious atmosphere of nineteenth-century Portugal, the novel follows a world in which virtue and corruption, tenderness and cruelty, faith and scandal are constantly at war.With his unmistakable blend of irony, emotional intensity, and moral insight, Camilo explores the fate of characters trapped by pride, poverty, passion, and inherited guilt. The result is a novel at once intimate and sweeping: a portrait of human weakness, social hypocrisy, and the fragile possibility of redemption.This English edition presents the complete novel in a carefully prepared translation, preserving the dramatic force, rhetorical elegance, and historical texture of the original Portuguese text. Ideal for readers of classic European literature, Gothic-tinged romance, religious drama, and nineteenth-century fiction. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A lost jewel of Portuguese Romantic fiction, now available in English.In early nineteenth-century Lisbon, Francisco Lourenco Gomes is more than a humble shoemaker: he is a man possessed by poetry, ambition, and the desire to rise beyond the limits imposed upon him by birth. His admiration f…or the celebrated poet Bocage draws him into a world where wit, vanity, social aspiration, and private sorrow are never far apart.But the true drama of Needle in a Haystack unfolds through the next generation. Fernando, Francisco's son, enters a wider European stage of exile, passion, secrecy, and wounded pride. His love for Paulina is tested by family ambition, aristocratic prejudice, political suspicion, and the cruel weight of social origin. Around them move fathers, suitors, diplomats, convents, letters, and reputations-each one tightening the moral and emotional knot.Camilo Castelo Branco combines satire, melancholy, psychological insight, and dramatic irony in a novel that moves from Lisbon to Italy and beyond. At once a romance of frustrated love and a sharp portrait of class anxiety, Needle in a Haystack reveals one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists at his most elegant and incisive.This edition presents a complete English translation of Agulha em Palheiro, with editorial care intended for modern readers while preserving the intensity, irony, and emotional cadence of the original. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A fierce, comic, and merciless portrait of nineteenth-century Portuguese society.In The Rabble (A Corja), Camilo Castelo Branco returns to the world of Eusebio Macario with sharper irony, darker humor, and a devastating eye for hypocrisy. Priests, barons, social climbers, adulterers, politi…cal opportunists, ruined families, and provincial schemers move through a world where respectability is often only a costume-and where money, vanity, and desire expose the moral corruption beneath polite society.Both satirical novel and social anatomy, The Rabble combines melodrama, farce, political caricature, and psychological cruelty with Camilo's unmistakable verbal energy. Its characters are comic, grotesque, wounded, ridiculous, and painfully human. Through them, Camilo attacks false nobility, clerical decadence, bourgeois ambition, romantic illusion, and the machinery of public scandal.This edition presents the work in English translation, preserving the intensity, irony, historical flavor, and biting wit of one of Portugal's most brilliant nineteenth-century prose stylists.A powerful choice for readers of European classics, literary satire, Portuguese literature, social realism, and darkly comic fiction. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A rare nineteenth-century psychiatric classic, now presented in English for modern readers.In Paranoia, Portuguese physician and psychiatrist Julio de Matos offers a rigorous historical and critical examination of one of the most debated concepts in nineteenth-century psychiatry. Moving acr…oss French, German, Italian, English, American, and Russian medical literature, Matos studies the evolution of paranoia as a diagnostic category, tracing its relationship to chronic delusion, hallucination, obsession, degeneration, reasoning, and the broader classification of mental illness.Originally published in an era when psychiatry was still defining its scientific vocabulary, this work captures a crucial moment in the history of mental medicine. Matos engages with major figures such as Morel, Magnan, Kraepelin, Lasegue, Falret, Tanzi, Riva, and others, comparing competing theories and terminology while developing his own critical position.This English edition is designed for readers interested in the history of psychiatry, psychology, medical humanities, nineteenth-century science, and the intellectual history of mental illness. It preserves the technical and historical character of the original while making the text accessible to contemporary English-language readers.A valuable source for scholars, students, clinicians, historians, and readers of classic medical literature, Paranoia offers a window into the foundations of modern psychiatric thought. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A lost Portuguese classic of passion, exile, and ambition in the New World.Joao da Silveira leaves Portugal behind after the fall of the monarchy, carrying with him the wounded pride of an old aristocratic world and the restless hunger for a new destiny. Aboard the transatlantic steamer bou…nd for South America, he enters a shifting world of exiles, fortune-seekers, cosmopolitan travelers, immigrants, and women whose presence awakens both desire and danger.In Creole Love: Argentine Life, Abel Botelho turns his sharp naturalist eye toward the Atlantic crossing, Buenos Aires, and the vast Argentine landscape. The novel moves from shipboard society to urban speculation, from aristocratic nostalgia to the raw promise of the pampas, offering a vivid portrait of early twentieth-century life between Portugal and Argentina.Sensual, ironic, socially observant, and psychologically acute, this unfinished novel reveals Botelho at the height of his descriptive power. Preserved as an incomplete posthumous work, it remains a fascinating fragment of Portuguese literary naturalism and a rare fictional encounter between Europe and South America.This edition presents a carefully revised English translation, with translator's notes, a preface, and an afterword that situates the work in its historical and literary context. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In The Glass Eye, Camilo Castelo Branco leads the reader into a darkly ironic tale of family secrets, religious persecution, moral corruption, and buried guilt. Set against the shadow of the Portuguese Inquisition and the decaying world of old aristocratic houses, the novel follows a chain…of revelations that begins with a mysterious past and ends in spiritual anguish.With his unmistakable blend of satire, melodrama, historical criticism, and psychological intensity, Castelo Branco exposes a society where appearances conceal cruelty, piety masks ambition, and memory itself becomes a form of punishment. At once tragic and biting, The Glass Eye is a compact but powerful example of nineteenth-century Portuguese fiction, filled with dramatic reversals, sharp social commentary, and the emotional force that made Camilo one of Portugal's most enduring literary voices.This English edition includes a translator's preface, chapter-by-chapter translator's notes, historical explanations, and an afterword designed to guide modern readers through the cultural, religious, and linguistic world of the novel.Ideal for readers of classic European literature, Gothic-inflected historical fiction, Portuguese literature in translation, and morally complex family dramas. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. First published in 1882, The City of Vice is a fierce, lyrical, and unsettling collection of stories by Fialho de Almeida, one of the most original voices in nineteenth-century Portuguese literature. Moving between the sun-scorched countryside of the Alentejo and the gas-lit shadows of Lisb…on, these stories reveal a world of poverty, desire, illness, cruelty, superstition, and moral decay - but also of strange beauty, tenderness, and tragic grandeur.Fialho's prose is rich, sensual, and uncompromising. In these pages, pastoral landscapes turn violent, hospitals become chambers of horror, children and workers are crushed by social indifference, and the city itself appears as a living organism: feverish, corrupt, magnificent, and doomed. His vision belongs to the great European naturalist tradition, yet his style is uniquely his own - baroque, poetic, grotesque, and intensely visual.This edition includes a translator's preface, afterword, and explanatory notes designed to guide modern English-language readers through the historical, cultural, and literary world of nineteenth-century Portugal.For readers of Emile Zola, Eca de Queiros, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, and the darker side of Victorian realism, The City of Vice offers a powerful rediscovery: a book at once brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Book of Consolation, Camilo Castelo Branco crafts a deeply emotional novel of love, loss, moral conflict, and inner suffering. Centered on figures such as Venceslau Taveira and Eduardo Pimenta, the story unfolds through intense personal drama, psychological tension, and the author's unmi…stakable gift for transforming private anguish into compelling fiction. The result is a richly layered classic that will appeal to readers of literary romance, tragic character studies, and nineteenth-century European fiction.This new English edition brings one of Camilo's lesser-known works to modern readers while preserving the emotional force, reflective depth, and literary elegance that made him one of the great voices of Portuguese fiction. Darkly human and full of feeling, Book of Consolation is both a romance and a meditation on sorrow, pride, memory, and the search for solace when life refuses easy peace. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Four Novellas brings together four powerful works by Ana de Castro Osorio, one of Portugal's most important early twentieth-century women writers, educators, and feminist voices.In "The Vineyard," "The Witch," "A Child's Diary," and "The Sacrificed Woman," Osorio turns her attention to rura…l life, childhood memory, womanhood, superstition, poverty, social constraint, and the quiet tragedies hidden beneath ordinary domestic existence. Her prose is intimate, observant, and morally alert, revealing a world in which women and children often bear the deepest costs of family duty, social judgment, and inherited injustice.First published in 1908 as Quatro Novelas, this collection offers English-language readers a rare opportunity to discover a major Portuguese author whose literary and civic work helped shape modern discussions of education, women's rights, and social reform. These stories combine realism, psychological insight, and emotional restraint, presenting lives marked by tenderness, hardship, endurance, and sacrifice.This edition includes a new English translation, an editorial preface, translator's notes, and an afterword designed to guide contemporary readers through the literary, cultural, and historical background of the work.A compelling volume for readers of classic European literature, women's writing, Portuguese fiction, social realism, and forgotten literary voices. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A forbidden love. A holy man's fall. A woman whose passion reaches beyond the grave.Set in the decadent Paris of Louis XV, Alzira's Shroud is one of Aluisio de Azevedo's most haunting and atmospheric novels: a dark tale of desire, religious ecstasy, temptation, and psychological collapse.An…gelo, a young priest raised in near-total seclusion, has been carefully preserved from the corruptions of the world. To his spiritual guardian, he is meant to become a living proof of purity - a soul untouched by vice, ambition, or sensual passion. But when Angelo appears before the glittering and corrupt court of Paris, his beauty and innocence awaken dangerous fascination. Among those captivated is Alzira, a celebrated courtesan known for her coldness, her wit, and her fatal power over men.For the first time in her life, Alzira loves. For the first time in his life, Angelo desires.What follows is a feverish drama of conscience and obsession, where sacred vows collide with forbidden longing, and where death itself may not be enough to extinguish passion. Blending Gothic romance, historical fiction, religious symbolism, and psychological intensity, Alzira's Shroud reveals a lesser-known but unforgettable side of one of Brazil's greatest nineteenth-century novelists.This edition presents the novel in a carefully prepared English translation, with translator's notes, a preface, and an afterword for modern readers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
