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The Lusíads (Oxford World's Classics) by Lus de Cames; Landeg White; Isabel Burton; Richard Francis Burton; Lucas Pozzi de Souza; Filipe Rocha Garcia is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lusíads (Oxford World's Classics) about?
First published in 1572, "The Lusíads" is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the center of "The Lusíads" is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-8. Camões was the first European artist to cross the equator, and his narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India, and the Far East. The poem's twin symbols are the
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lus de Cames; Landeg White; Isabel Burton; Richard Francis Burton; Lucas Pozzi de Souza; Filipe Rocha Garcia
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192801517
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (3,601 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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