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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, treaties, 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. In The Intruder, Julia Lopes de Almeida transforms a household into a battlefield of memory, class, jealousy, and desire. After the death of his wife, the widower Argemiro tries to preserve his grief as a sacred relic, but the arrival of Alice Galba, a quiet and capable governess, unsettles the fragile order of his home. Between a possessive grandmother, a strong-willed daughter, ambitious social climbers, and the constant pressure of appearances, every room becomes charged with suspicion and meaning. Elegant, psychologically sharp, and rich in social observation, this Brazilian classic is both a domestic drama and a subtle novel of moral conflict, in which love must pass through pride, mourning, and judgment before it can be recognized. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A forgotten theatrical gem from one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century writers, now brought to English readers in a carefully edited translation.Macario's Assassin is a sharp, lively, and ironic three-act comedy by Camilo Castelo Branco, one of the most influential figures of Portuguese literature. In this compact yet spirited stage work, Camilo blends mistaken intentions, social satire, domestic intrigue, and comic exaggeration with the verbal agility that made him famous.The play unfolds around suspicions, misunderstandings, and the dramatic weight of appearances. Beneath its humorous surface, it reveals the anxieties of honor, reputation, marriage, class expectation, and public judgment in nineteenth-century Portuguese society. Camilo's wit turns everyday tensions into theatrical absurdity, allowing the reader to see how easily pride and fear can transform ordinary life into farce.This edition includes a translator's preface, editorial notes, translator's notes after each act, and a concluding afterword designed to help modern readers appreciate the historical, linguistic, and cultural context of the work.Ideal for readers of classic European drama, Portuguese literature, nineteenth-century satire, and rediscovered public-domain works, Macario's Assassin offers a rare opportunity to encounter Camilo Castelo Branco beyond his better-known novels. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A haunting tale of love, pride, secrecy, and moral ruin from one of Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelists.In Carlota Angela, Camilo Castelo Branco explores the fragile boundary between passion and destruction, tracing the fate of characters bound by family expectations, social appearances, and the hidden wounds of the heart. With his characteristic intensity, irony, and psychological insight, Camilo portrays a world in which love is rarely simple, virtue is often tested, and human dignity struggles against desire, resentment, and destiny.Set within the emotional and social atmosphere of nineteenth-century Portugal, this novel offers readers a powerful example of Portuguese Romantic fiction: dramatic, intimate, morally charged, and deeply attentive to the inner lives of its characters. Behind its domestic scenes and personal conflicts lies a broader meditation on honor, suffering, forgiveness, and the tragic consequences of choices made in silence.This English edition brings Carlota Angela to a wider readership, preserving the elegance and emotional force of Camilo Castelo Branco's prose while making the novel accessible to modern readers. Complete with a preface, afterword, and translator's notes, this edition is ideal for lovers of classic literature, European Romanticism, psychological drama, and rediscovered works of world fiction. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Set in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, A Gazelle's Paw is a sparkling Brazilian classic of romance, irony, and social observation. When the wealthy Horacio becomes captivated by a single lost slipper, he imagines an ideal woman from that tantalizing clue alone. But as he pursues the beautiful Amelia, he finds himself opposed by Leopoldo, a man whose love is rooted not in fantasy, but in character and feeling. First published in 1870, the novel turns a Cinderella-like premise into a sharp, elegant story about vanity, desire, appearances, and the difference between superficial fascination and genuine devotion.With wit, charm, and emotional precision, Jose de Alencar crafts a courtship novel that is both entertaining and quietly incisive. Beneath its grace and lightness lies a modern question: do we love people as they are, or as we imagine them to be? This edition invites new readers into one of the finest urban romances of Brazilian literature. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the sweltering streets of nineteenth-century Sao Luis do Maranhao, a brilliant young doctor returns home expecting to settle his affairs and begin a promising future. Instead, Raimundo finds himself trapped in a society built on cruelty, racial prejudice, and polished hypocrisy. As he falls in love with Ana Rosa, the woman he hopes to marry, the hidden truth of his birth becomes a weapon in the hands of those determined to preserve the old order at any cost.The Mulatto is at once a love story, a social indictment, and one of the founding works of Brazilian literary naturalism. Aluisio Azevedo exposes a world where slavery, religious corruption, family ambition, and social respectability work together to crush human dignity. Rich in atmosphere, psychological tension, and unforgettable characters, this novel remains startlingly modern in its portrait of how prejudice survives behind the language of morality and tradition. For readers of classic literature, historical fiction, and socially engaged novels, The Mulatto is a powerful and haunting rediscovery. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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 feared 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 multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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 multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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 Lisbon, 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 multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Eternal Yearning, Julia Lopes de Almeida gathers thirty stories of desire, guilt, tenderness, cruelty, memory, and social constraint into a haunting portrait of the human heart. First published in 1903, this collection moves with remarkable freedom between psychological realism, tragedy, irony, and the uncanny, revealing a writer of rare emotional precision and narrative control.Again and again, Lopes de Almeida turns toward lives under pressure: women burdened by secrecy, motherhood, poverty, violence, longing, and the strict moral codes of their world. Yet these stories are never merely bleak. They are vivid, elegant, and often startling, driven by sharp reversals, unforgettable images, and an unsparing understanding of love, shame, devotion, and survival.Whether she is writing of domestic anguish, spiritual obsession, social hypocrisy, or the strange borderland between the ordinary and the grotesque, Lopes de Almeida brings intensity and compassion to every page. Eternal Yearning is both a major work of Brazilian literature and a powerful rediscovery: a collection that feels at once historical and startlingly modern.Perfect for readers of literary fiction, feminist classics, Gothic undertones, and short stories with emotional depth, this volume introduces English-language readers to one of Brazil's most important and too-long-neglected writers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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 into 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.…

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.…

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 betrayal, 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.…

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 sixteenth 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.…

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, Alberto 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. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Blessed Tears is a moving nineteenth-century Portuguese novel of loss, remorse, faith, and the transforming power of forgiveness. When Alvaro da Silveira abandons the moral path he once embraced, the lives of those who love him are tested by poverty, betrayal, and silence. At the heart of the story stands Maria, whose compassion refuses to surrender to despair. Camilo Castelo Branco weaves a powerful tale of spiritual struggle, family devotion, and redemption in this complete English translation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A rare and vivid portrait of Portugal at the edge of revolution, translated into English for modern readers.In Memoirs, Volume I, Portuguese master Raul Brandao records the political, literary, and social world of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Portugal with extraordinary intensity. More than a conventional memoir, this book is a gallery of unforgettable figures: writers, monarchists, republicans, aristocrats, journalists, soldiers, artists, conspirators, and men of letters caught in the last years of the Portuguese monarchy and the turbulent rise of the Republic.Brandao writes with the eye of a novelist and the conscience of a witness. His pages move from intimate portraits of Guerra Junqueiro, Fialho de Almeida, Antonio Nobre, Gomes Leal, Joao Franco, D. Carlos I, and many others, to dramatic political scenes surrounding the crisis of the monarchy, the regicide of 1908, and the moral exhaustion of a society approaching collapse.This English edition preserves the force, irony, melancholy, and documentary richness of the original Portuguese text, offering readers access to one of the most important memoiristic works in modern Portuguese literature.Ideal for readers of European history, literary memoirs, political chronicles, Portuguese studies, and fin-de-siecle culture, Memoirs, Volume I is both a historical document and a deeply human work of remembrance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When a young man from rural Minas Gerais arrives in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the newly proclaimed Brazilian Republic, he expects civilization, refinement, and wonder. What he finds is far more dazzling-and far more dangerous.During eight intense days in the Federal Capital, the naive visitor is drawn into a world of elegant cafes, theaters, gambling rooms, salons, political vanity, seductive appearances, and moral confusion. Through his astonished eyes, Rio de Janeiro becomes both a spectacle and a warning: a city of brilliance, appetite, ambition, and disillusion.Originally published in the late nineteenth century, The Federal Capital: Impressions of a Sertanejo is one of Coelho Netto's sharpest portraits of urban Brazil at the dawn of the Republic. Blending satire, social observation, lyrical prose, and cultural contrast, the novel captures the clash between provincial innocence and metropolitan sophistication with humor, irony, and unexpected tenderness.This edition presents the complete English translation of A capital federal (impressoes de um sertanejo), accompanied by a translator's preface, explanatory notes, and editorial material for modern readers.Perfect for readers of Brazilian literature, nineteenth-century fiction, social satire, urban novels, and rediscovered classics of world 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.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A powerful portrait of rural Portugal, now presented in English for modern readers.Our People brings together the voices, landscapes, sorrows, faith, passions, and moral conflicts of nineteenth-century Portuguese village life. Written by Teixeira de Queiroz under the literary name Bento Moreno, this collection moves through country roads, humble homes, religious customs, family tensions, popular superstition, and the quiet tragedies of ordinary people.With the eye of a realist and the sensitivity of a storyteller deeply attentive to human character, Queiroz portrays a world in which love, poverty, devotion, pride, and fate shape the lives of men and women bound to the land and to inherited customs. These stories are intimate, dramatic, and often haunting, revealing not only "our people" of Portugal, but the universal condition of communities struggling between tradition, desire, and change.This English edition offers readers access to a significant work of Portuguese literature, preserving the atmosphere, dignity, and emotional force of the original while making it available to a wider international audience.Ideal for readers of classic European fiction, Portuguese literature, rural realism, literary naturalism, and historical short stories. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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 future 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.…

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 the 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.…

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 portrait 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.…

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 bound 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.…

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.…

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 Lisbon, 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.…

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 rural 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. …

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.Angelo, 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. …