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  • The Maias

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    The Maias is a sweeping and masterfully crafted novel by Eça de Queirós, widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of Portuguese literature. Rich in psychological depth and social insight, this powerful work paints a vivid portrait of aristocratic life, intellectual ambition, and moral decline in 19th-century Lisbon. At the center of the story is the Maia family, whose fortunes and ... Read more

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  • José Matias

    by José Maria de Eça de Queirós ...
    "José Matias," the tale of a madly romantic man of leisure who is going to his grave accompanied by a very brief procession of carriages, highlights the gentle irony—equal parts affection and sarcasm—that makes the work of the great nineteenth-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós seem much closer to contemporary readers than it might appear from a glance at the dates of Eça's ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prosas Bárbaras

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    A obra contém os seguintes textos: Notas marginais; Sinfonia de abertura; O Macbeth; Poetas do mal; A ladainha da dor; Os mortos; As misérias: I. Entre a neve; Farsas; Ao acaso; O Miantonomah; Misticismo humorístico; Lisboa; Uma carta; Da pintura em Portugal; O lume; Mefistófeles; Onfália Benoiton; Apêndice: Inês de Castro; A morte de Jesus. ... Read more

    $3.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City & the Mountains

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    The City & the Mountains is a witty and thought-provoking novel by Eça de Queirós that contrasts the glittering promises of modern urban life with the quiet authenticity of the countryside. Through sharp satire and elegant storytelling, Queirós explores the tension between progress and simplicity, sophistication and sincerity, illusion and truth. The story follows Jacinto, a wealthy and cultured ... Read more

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  • O Crime do Padre Amaro

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    "O Crime do Padre Amaro" recebeu no Brasil e em Portugal alguma atenção da Crítica, quando foi publicado ulteriormente um romance intitulado – "O Primo Basílio". E no Brasil e em Portugal escreveu-se (sem todavia se aduzir nenhuma prova efetiva) que "O Crime do Padre Amaro" era uma imitação do romance do Sr. E. Zola – "La Faute de L'Abbé Mouret"; ou que este livro do autor do "Assomoir" e de ... Read more

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  • The Crime of Father Amaro

    by José Maria de Eça de Queirós ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture.Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday ... Read more

    $27.79 CAD

  • The Crime of Father Amaro

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    The Crime of Father Amaro is a bold and uncompromising novel by Eça de Queirós, widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of Portuguese realism. In this powerful work, Queirós delivers a penetrating critique of religious hypocrisy, moral corruption, and the oppressive social structures of 19th-century provincial life. The story follows Amaro Vieira, a young priest whose vocation is shaped less by ... Read more

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  • Adam and Eve in Paradise

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    Never before in English, this delectable novella offers a hilarious new version of Genesis, where, rather than living in innocent bliss, Adam and Eve live in terror of being stomped by an IchthyosaurusGloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Queirósis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood Bible: yellow-eyed Adam is a slope-browed Neanderthal all ... Read more

    $14.09 CAD

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    Our Lady of the Pillar (UNABRIDGED)

    by José Maria de EÇA DE QUEIRÓS ...
    Narrated by Maisie Opal ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his feelings and hatches a plan. Don Ruy rides right into a trap, but on the way, a dead man joins him and saves his life. - Summary by Carolin ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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    José Matias

    Regarded as the greatest Portuguese short story ever

    by Eça de Queirós ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós was born in 1845 and has gained his literary reputation as the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.He died in 1900. ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Forgotten Authors, The - Continental European Men

    Don't let great literature die

    by Camillo Boito, Ion Luca Caragiale, Louis Couperus, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Mór Jókai, Thomas Mann, Eça de Queirós, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Bruno Schulz, Ömer Seyfettin, Hristo Smirenski, The Brothers Grimm ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Janet Fullerlove, Robert Maskell ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Stories Featuring Funerals

    Stories spanning various genres and themes but connected by a sombre event

    by Ambrose Bierce, Mary Butts, Willa Cather, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Eca de Queiros, Mary E Mann, Alfred Lichtenstein, Vincent O'Sullivan, Morley Roberts, Kalman Mikszath ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    The funeral is the one appointment we’d rather never make. Whether as the deceased, or as a friend and loved one attending, a burial is the grim reminder that a life has passed and the future must now be made without them. Our talented authors explore this period of time in their own individual and inimitable ways as only they can.01 - Stories Featuring Funerals - An Introduction02 - John ... Read more

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