The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

by Machado de Assis

Book Overview

Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839-1908)--the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves--was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English until 1963 and still lacks proper...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404966
• ISBN13: 9780871404961
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 960 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.7"