Ebook {Epub PDF} The Maias by Eça de Queirós

The Maias PDF book by Eca de Queiros Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF, azw3 or MOBI eBooks. Published in the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in classics, european literature books. The main characters of The Maias novel are Carlos da Maia, Joao da Ega. Eça de Queirós's main target in The Maias is the insular, fashionable society that Portugal's upper class built amid the country's ruins, and its hero, Carlos da Maia, is a young aristocrat of exceptional looks, wealth and taste. Carlos arrives in Lisbon in , fresh out of Coimbra's medical school, seasoned by a year of Grand Tour and. Os Maias Disciplina Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica is a realist novel by Portuguese author José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, also known under the modernized spelling Eça de Queirós. Maia is the name of a fictional family, although some episodes fit into the history of the real Maia family.

The Maias (Paperback) Published July 30th by New Directions. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Eça de Queirós, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. The Portuguese novel The Maias appeared in , when its author, José Maria de Eça de Queirós (), was forty-three years old. Eça had spent close to a decade working on the book—which he initially planned as the first entry in a series called "Scenes from Portuguese Life"—during his diplomatic service in England. One of the leading intellectuals of the "Generation of ," José Maria de Eça de Queirós () wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris. Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated José Saramago and Machado de Assis, lives in England.

Os Maias by Eca de Queiros. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. Pages clean, no library stamps, no annotations, no marks. Original dustjacket in excellent condition. An excellent collectible copy of this great work of literature by Eca de Queiros. Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica ("The Maias: Episodes of Romantic Life") is a realist novel by Portuguese author Eça de Queiroz. Maia is the name of the fictional family the novel is about. As early as , while serving in the Portuguese consulate at Newcastle upon Tyne, Eça had at least given a name to this book and had begun working on it. Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, The Maias is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance. Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud.