OS Maias: Episodios Da Vida Romantica

from arubabookwoman

This magnificent 19th century novel has been called, 'The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist,' by Jose Saramago. Harold Bloom called it, 'one of the most impressive European novels of the nineteenth century, fully comparable to the most inspired novels of the great Russian, French, Ita...

from arubabookwoman

This magnificent 19th century novel has been called, 'The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist,' by Jose Saramago. Harold Bloom called it, 'one of the most impressive European novels of the nineteenth century, fully comparable to the most inspired novels of the great Russian, French, Ita...

from starbox

The story of a wealthy young man, Carlos Maia, brought up by his benevolent grandfather Afonso in late 19th century Lisbon. How this comes to be fills the start of the story. Then Carlos graduates from medical school and comes home with grand ideas but soon lapses into dilettantism. Hanging out w...

from Haidji

The book is about the life of Carlos da Maia (rich, handsome, generous and intelligent) in 1870s Portugal, when along with his best friend and partner in crime João da Ega he spends his time making witticisms about society and having affairs. Carlos desires to be a doctor, but once he has lavishl...

from shawnd

Surprisingly taut for a 600+ page novel, this late 19th century family epic is quite similar to Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. In many ways, it is superior in structure, voice, and meanders far less than Flaubert. The story itself is about Carlos, the emergi...