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Two Gentlemen Standing Outside A Church In Rio De Janeiro See A Respectable Lady Emerge - One Of Them Has An Unexpected, And To Him Inexplicable Story To Tell About Her Past Life As A Prostitute; A Popular Composer Of Polkas Burns The Midnight Oil In A Desperate Attempt To Create Great Classical Music; A Teenager Finds Himself Caught Up By The Sight Of The Bare Arms Of An Older Woman Who Lives With His Employer; An Impoverished, Lazy Young Man Turns To The Lucrative Trade Of Catching Runaway Slaves; Dull, Monotonous Mariana Has A Tiff With Her Husband About The Hat He Wears To Town, And Decides To Sing The Marseillaise Of Matrimony By Going Off On A Trip To Town Herself With Her More Daring, Flirtatious Friend Sophia.... These Are Some Of The Situations Developed In These Stories, Some Of The Most Brilliant To Have Been Written In The Nineteenth Century. They Echo Poe And Gogol, They Anticipate Joyce, They Have Been Compared To Contemporary Works By Chekhov, Maupassant, And Henry James, Yet They Are Not Quite Like Any Of These. Anyone Who Has Read Epitaph Of A Small Winner Or Dom Casmurro, His Most Famous Novels, Will Want To Savour These Stories - Those Who Haven't, Will Find Them

Author

Machado de Assis

Publisher

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408863848

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Short Stories

Rating

3.86 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14