Dom Casmurro
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Dom Casmurro
AUTHOR:
Assis, Machado de, 1839-1908.
Gledson, John.
Hanson, João Adolfo.
ISBN:
9780195103090
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xxvii, 258 p. ; 21 cm
SERIES:
Library of Latin America
Library of Latin America.
SERIES_TITLE:
Library of Latin America
Library of Latin America.
GENERAL_NOTE:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ABSTRACT:
Dom Casmurro, by the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (originally published in 1900), is one of the great unrecognized classics of the turn of the century. This new translation provides an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context, as well as an afterword by the Brazilian scholar Joao Adolfo Hansen.
GENRE_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| Paternity -- Fiction. |
| Spouses -- Fiction. |
| Humorous fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Dom Casmurro, by the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (originally published in 1900), is one of the great unrecognized classics of the turn of the century. This new translation provides an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context, as well as an afterword by the Brazilian scholar Joao Adolfo Hansen.