Product Description: Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878 to 1886 (regarded as Joaquim Machado de Assis’s most radically experimental period), this selection of short fiction by Brazil’s greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac and philosophical to impishly ironic...read more

Product Description: The ordinary, everyday, and trivial make up the raw materials for the literary genre of the chronicle, which Machado de Assis’ style turns into a perfect chat. Like a well-informed neighbor, the Brazilian writer offers us a portrayal of his native country towards the end of the nineteenth century, highlighting the tensions between the ancient and the modern, between tradition and progress...read more

Product Description: "Intertwines the lives of three characters in a subtly and wryly developing relationship. While the youthful Iaiaa is growing into womanhood, a tentative love affair occurs between the aristocratic Jorge and the prideful Estela. This affair is afflicted by ironic shifts of fortune and in time the maturing Iaiaa becomes a rival for Jorge's attentions"--Amazon...read more