9780747596721 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, October 19, 2009, cover price $14.90

9780747594611 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, September 1, 2008, cover price $30.30 | About this edition: 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; and, 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.

9780747589471 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, November 5, 2007, cover price $27.05 | About this edition: A novel which is translated from Portuguese.

9780747569060 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, October 30, 2004), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Emilie, the matriarch, is on her deathbed.

9780809042197 | Hill & Wang Pub, September 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the origins and history of the Brazilian monarchy, the contrast between the empire in Brazil and the trend of establishing republics throughout the New World, and the impact of the reign of Dom Pedro II on the evolution of modern Brazil.

9781582341903 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, July 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The history, inhabitants, beach life, sports, music, favelas, festivals, and culture of Rio de Janeiro come to life in a portrait of the Brazilian city, set against the backdrop of Carnival.

9780747573319 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 8, 2004, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Drawing on Rio De Janeiro's past, this work shows that even in periods of comparative calm, there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the feeling of a carnival under fire.

9780374141189 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A tale of a disintegrating family, set in a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, finds identical twins Yaqub and Omar vying for their mother's attention.

9780822322108 | Duke Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $79.95

9780822322399 | Duke Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908).

9780860913412 | Verso Books, November 1, 1992, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: "Misplaced Ideas" spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the life and work of Brazil's most influential novelist, Machado de Assis, as well as Brazilian film, poetry, theatre and music.

9780860915768 | Verso Books, November 1, 1992, cover price $19.95

9780905205199 | Francis Cairns, December 1, 1984, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the nineteenth century.