The Relic tells the story of an orphaned young man, Teodorico Raposo, who is brought to Lisbon from ... more

"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of...... more

Connor thought he had life all figured out, until he met Jamel. A military veteran from a good Irish... more

. ’Eca de Queiroz wrote in an elegant, clear prose. He was also a satirist with great eye for details who described in his...... more

Cousin Bazilio is a tale of sexual folly and hypocrisy and vividly depicts life in nineteenth-century lisbon. Eca gives...... more

Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, E a de Queir s s novella, Saint C... more

Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent are... more

Adam, the father of all mankind, was created on October 28 at two in the afternoon. When these words... more

Eca de Queiroz began his career as a self-declared realist, but as his writing evolved, his novels and stories became a...... more

The Relic is an irreverent fictional autobiography narrating the picaresque adventures of Teodorico,... more

The Correspondence of Fradique Mendes -- ostensibly letters, with an arch introduction -- actually r... more

of Eca’s death." "One night at the theatre, Vitor da Silva, a young law graduate, sees a strikingly beautiful woman...... more

Eca de Queiroz s sharply satirical work aimed to expose the hypocrisies of his age. His lascivious anti-heroes Teodoro...... more

Born in Paris, Jacinto is the heir to a vast estate in Portugal which he has never visited. He mixes... more

Although art is taught worldwide, art education policies and practices vary widely and there are few... more

Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of Jos Saramago s Blind... more

Eça de Queirós’s novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town ... more

This novel is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not f... more

England in the 1880s: the aristocracy stoically endures the tedium of country-bound weeks in winter,... more

. It is accompanied by a selection of Eca de Queiro s short stories....... more

Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave new world. His revelation leads ... more