The novel, extremely daring for its time, is framed as the memoirs of a character, Brás Cubas, who writes after his death.

In the tradition of Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift -- and as a clear forerunner of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges -- Epitaph of a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in ...

This new edition of "Dom Casmurro" includes: An entirely new translation Clear and easy-to-read language Exclusive indexes you will find in no other edition, including subject, characters, places, and events indexes Comprehensive subject, ...

Ghost of prominent Brazilian weighs good against bad and balances the books of his life on earth.

. . . With dark humor and sparse prose, The Alienist lets the reader ponder who is really crazy. *** This is a Hybrid Book.

Narrating from beyond the grave, Brás Cubas—an enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable antihero—describes his childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his bachelor years of torrid affairs, and his final days obsessing over ...

In The Fortune-Teller, the author presents one more urban story, concerning a love triangle, Machado de Assis-style. Translated to English by Clara Monnerat, from the 1st edition by Editora Itapuca, Niterói - Brazil.

By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed ...

Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them.