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The Maias
Os Maias
Eça de Queirós
Realism
1888
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The Maias
Original title: Os Maias (Português)
Eça de Queirós
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The story
Three generations of a Lisbon family serve as pretext for the harshest and funniest portrait of nineteenth-century Portugal.
About the author
José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845–1900) gave Portuguese prose the irony and precision of gaze that defined Iberian realism.
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