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A Mão e a Luva

Classics of Brazilian Literature

A Mão e a Luva( )
Author: Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
ISBN:978-1-4538-3917-1
Publication Date:Sep 2010
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.99
Book Description:

A Mao e a Luva conta a história de Guiomar, uma moça simples mas ambiciosa, que deseja a ascensão social através de suas relações amorosas. Três rapazes disputam o amor da moça, mas ao final somente Guiomar poderá decidir com quem casará. A Mão e a Luva é um dos primeiros romances de Machado de Assis, e encontra-se inserido em sua fase romântica.~~A Mao e a Luva tells the story of Guiomar, a poor and ambitious girl, who desires social advancement through her romantic relations. Three...
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Book Details
Pages:138
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Suspense
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.32 Inches
Book Weight:0.58 Pounds
Author Biography
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (Author)
Machado de Assis's achievement in both novels and poetry make him Brazil's paradigm of a writer. His novels are characterized "by a psychological insight as well as a broad view of social conditions in Brazil and the world. The seriousness of the realistic view is highlighted with ironic humor." Beginning as a romantic, Assis developed a style that embraced realism, naturalism, and symbolism. "Epitaph for a Small Winner" (1881) reveals his essential pessimism, as the only consolation for Bras Cubas is that he has not passed on his misery to any offspring. About his writing in "Dom Casmurro" (1900), it was said "No satirist, not even Swift, is less merciful in his exposure of the pretentiousness and the hypocrisy that lurk in the average good man and woman."

Born in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Machado de Assis was orphaned early in life. He advanced from typesetter, to proofreader and finally to journalist before entering the Brazilian civil service. He was the author of nine novels, more than 200 short stories, opera libretti, drama, and lyric poetry.

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