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Be … from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Responsibility: Translated by Patricia McGowan Pinheiro and Ann Stevens. Os Maias (Portuguese Edition)Eca de Queiroz, the author of Os Maias, is one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language.For those who do not know, Portuguese, the language of Portugal, Brasil and assorted places in Africa and Asia is one of the most beautiful languages in the world, and is the language of several literary masterpieces, ignored only because so few people speak Portuguese. It’s late C19th, though, 1888. The main characters of this classics, european literature story are Carlos da Maia, João da Ega. Maias. Manchester : Carcanet in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1993, ©1965 (OCoLC)610193836: Material Type: Fiction: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: José Maria Eça de Queirós The burning of [Maya] books In a single act of wanton zealotry, the Spanish friar Diego de Landa burned, by his own account, 27 priceless Maya screenfold manuscripts in front of the church in the 4,000-year-old town of Maní, on the Yucatan peninsula, on the evening of July 12th., 1562. The Maias. Eca de Queiroz: The Maias The Bodley Head, London, 1965. The Maias, by Eça de Queiroz/de Queirós, is a proper doorstop of a C19th novel, over 700 pages long. It’s late C19th, though, 1888. Buy the Paperback Book The Maias by Jose Maria De Eca De Queiros at Indigo.ca, Canada's largest bookstore. Sieh dir die Kontaktdaten und Details von Maia's Journal - The Book an. Maia First edition cover AuthorRichard Adams CountryUnited Kingdom LanguageEnglish SeriesBeklan Empire GenreFantasy, Romance PublisherViking Press Publication date 1984 Media typePrint ISBN0-14-006476-1 OCLC13397594 Preceded byShardik Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams, published in 1984. Binding: Hardcover. The first edition of the novel was published in 1888, and was written by Eca de Queiros.

10 Jul 2019 . Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This novel tells the story of Carlos, heir to a noble family, who is caught in the impotence and decadence of Potuguese society at the end of the 19th century. 7 Reviews. Tags.

He finds his noble intentions reduced to amiable dilettantism and his romantic passion to tragic impossibility. I was trying to think of apt comparisons, and none of them seemed exactly right, but it’s much more George Eliot or Tolstoy than Dickens. London, Bodley Head [1965] (OCoLC)644937392: Material Type: Fiction: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Eça de Queirós. Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica is a realist novel by Portuguese author José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, also known under the modernized spelling Eça de Queirós. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. User-contributed reviews. Free download or read online Os Maias pdf (ePUB) book. But it is not a revolutionary tract. Discolouration to jacket spine, closed tear to tail, small hole and soiling to rear panel.

From inside the book . Book Summary The King of the Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantley-Newton celebrates the huge milestone of … Continued. Maias. Maia is the name of a fictional family, although some episodes fit into the history of the real Maia family. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket. As early as 1878, while serving in the Portuguese consulate at Newcastle upon Tyne, Eça had at least given a name to this book and had begun working on it. It's taken forever to get a fine translation in English of his greatest book, "The Maias." It is set in the Beklan Empire, the fictional world of Adams's 1974 novel Shardik, to which it stands as a loose prequel, taking place a few years earlier. Add tags for "The Maias.". 633 pages. Set in the milieu of the 19th century Portuguese aristocracy (already an exotic world for English-speakers), "The Maias" tells the tale of three generations of a great and noble family, following its decline and fall. The Maias Jose Maria Eca De Queiros, Author, Eca de Queiros, Author, Jose Maria De Eca De Queiros, Author , trans.