"Eça de Queiros (1845-1900) ought to be," as the London Observer stated, "up there with Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy as one of the talismanic names of the nineteenth century." His superlative penultimate novel, The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900) centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to the most noble family of Portugal. Gonçalo, charming but disastrously effete, muddles through his life while writing a historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his ancestors. "The record of their valour is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, he is continually humiliated [but he] is at the same time kindhearted .... Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel .... Eça de Queiros has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."(The London Spectator)

The Illustrious House of Ramires (Revived Modern Classic)

Literature & Fiction

Stevens, Anne

DE QUEIROZ, EÇA

Eça de Queirós

Humor & Satire

New Directions

Os Maias is Queirós' criticism of Portugal's decline in the later 1800s. Carlos de Maia returns from medical school to Lisbon to live with his grandfather in the restored mansion, o Ramalhete. In developing his medical practice, Carlos meets and begins an affair with Maria Eduarda, a beautiful young lady he initially believes to be Brazilian. Around the lovers, the city, the Monarchy and many of those they know are in decay. Then Carlos' friend Ega, a writer, discovers that Maria Eduarda is, in fact, Carlos' sister. But despite the revelation, Carlos continues the affair, until his grandfather discovers it and dies.

Os Maias (Portuguese Edition)

Literary

Luso-Brazilian Books

O Mandarim (Portuguese Edition)

Classics

A Cidade E As Serras

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In this very funny late novel, published after his death, Ea's satire is turned on the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself, and the bucolic second half, which bubbles with joie-de-vivre, reflects Ea's own recently discovered joy in country living at his wife's estate in Tormes.

The City and the Mountains. by EA de Queiroz

Contemporary

Dedalus Press

'Ea de Queiroz spent eight years writing The Maias. This is a novel in the tradition of Flaubert or Dickens, in which de Queiroz anatomises a society through a brilliant drama of a family's decline and downfall. Margaret Jull Costa's translation is supple, transparent and wonderfully paced. There seems to be no barrier at all between the reader and what the author intended. The novel shades from realism to romanticism, from satire to tragedy. The vigour and charm of the characters come across beautifully in this translation, and so does de Queiroz's biting, sometimes despairing view of Lisbon society in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.' Helen Dunmore, novelist and chair of the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

The Maias (Dedalus European Classics)

History & Criticism

Dedalus, Ltd

Relique

Arléa

La ilustre casa de Ramires (Clasicos Universales Planeta)

Eça de Queiroz

Libra

El mandarín

Libros del Zorro Rojo

A Ilustre Casa De Ramires (Bom Livro)

Atica

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