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Hardcover:
9780520022270 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $35.00
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9780520047754, titled "Counselor Ayres' Memorial" | Univ of California Pr on Demand, January 1, 1983, cover price $31.95
In 1850 Rio de Janeiro, Estacio tries to uncover the mysterious past of Helena, his presumed half sister, who has been brought to the family home and with whom he falls in love
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9780520060258 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1987), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In 1850 Rio de Janeiro, Estacio tries to uncover the mysterious past of Helena, his presumed half sister, who has been brought to the family home and with whom he falls in love
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9780374521929 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1990, cover price $20.00
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9788400071264 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $27.95
'At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a much-needed, graceful and accurate translation, attentive to Machado's tone and rhythms. Hansen's Afterword is excellent'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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9780195103083 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 20, 1997, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: 'At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable.
'New translation of Machado's famous novel is for the most part faithful and readable. However, work has occasional odd errors and omissions, and fails to give sufficient attention to Machado's rhythm and syntax. Given Rabassa's vast experience as a translator, it is hard not to suspect that carelessness and haste explain the mistakes and lapses. Also poorly edited and inadequately proofread'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Tells the story of an unheroic man who has a harebrained idea for curing the world from melancholy
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9780195101690 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 6, 1997, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: 'New translation of Machado's famous novel is for the most part faithful and readable.
One of the most important novels in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, a satire on life and romance in the Brazilian Empire follows an heir to a philosopher's fortune who plunges into the fantastic world of Rio de Janeiro. UP.
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9780195106817 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 22, 1998, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: 'Updated translation of another Machado classic, with excellent accompanying essays, is a welcome addition to his work available in English.
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9780195108118 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 30, 2000, cover price $19.95
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9788477207849 | Italian edition edition (Obelisco, July 1, 2003), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: All our books are brand new.
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9788477207924 | Obelisco, July 1, 2003, cover price $6.95
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9788420655109, titled "Memorias Postumas De Blas Cubas / The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas" | Poc tra edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $14.95
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9780850515169 | Luso Brazilian Books, February 10, 2006, cover price $11.50
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9780850515176 | Luso Brazilian Books, February 10, 2006, cover price $12.00
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9780850515190 | Luso Brazilian Books, February 15, 2006, cover price $14.00
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9780850515183 | Luso Brazilian Books, February 15, 2006, cover price $11.50
Product Description: Twins Pedro and Paulo are "two sides of the truth" and rivals from birth. As adults the principal source of their differences is politics - Pedro is a monarchist while Paulo wants a republic. Even in their choice of lovers they compete...read more
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9780850515206 | Luso Brazilian Books, February 15, 2006, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Twins Pedro and Paulo are "two sides of the truth" and rivals from birth.
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9780195106824 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 29, 1999, cover price $39.99
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9780850515060 | Luso Brazilian Books, August 1, 2006, cover price $9.00
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9781500403089 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 4, 2014, cover price $10.00
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