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Eça de Queirós

Works by Eça de Queirós

Illustrious House of Ramires [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Ann Stevens
Original title: A Illustre Casa de Ramires

Like his French contemporary Huysmans, Eça de Queiros started his writing career as a disciple of Zola but came of age as a satirist rather than a realist. His protagonist in The Illustrious House of Ramires, Gonçalo Ramires or ‘The Nobleman of the Tower’, (more...)

The Maias [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Ann Stevens
Original title: Os Maias

Eça de Queirós was one of the leading intellectuals of the ‘Generation of 1870’, highly concerned with the future of his country in the aftermath of the civil war of 1828-1834. Portugal had emerged from this internal struggle as a constitutional monarchy, (more...)

The Relic [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Original title: A Relíquia

The Relic (1887) is one long romp through a world polarised by piety and debauchery, Lisbon’s credulity and decadence, Egypt’s old stones and fleshpots, Palestine’s corrupt nostalgia and — jumping 1800 years — ‘one day in the month of Nisan, (more...)

Alves and Co. [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Robert M. Fedorchek
Original title: Alves & Cia.

Cousin Bazilio

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Roy Campbell
Original title: O Primo Bazilio

Cousin Bazilio is one of Eça’s greatest works, his Madame Bovary. (more...)

The Yellow Sofa and Other Stories Yellow Sofa, José Mathias, a Man of Talent

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by J. Vetch

The City & the Mountains

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Roy Campbell
Original title: As Cidade e as Serras

The City & the Mountains is a later and less-regarded work by Portugal’s master novelist, Eça de Queirós (1843-1900). (more...)

The Sin of Father Amaro

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Nan Flanagan
Original title: O Crime do Padre Amaro

Zola said this Portuguese writer, who, to be honest, has been barely heard of in Britain, was ‘greater than Flaubert’. One could look for the truth of that in The Sin of Father Amaro, his first published novel, and it is certainly a jolt to read it, (more...)

The Reliquary

by Eça de Queirós
Translated by Aubrey Bell

The Mandarin [Buy Direct]

by Eça de Queirós

Critics waste time on dating Eça de Queiros’s movement from Romanticism to Realism to Fantasy, for these — along with satire, the macabre, farce and, latterly, the sentimental — were ready on his palette when he needed them. The Mandarin has a prologue, (more...)

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