The hand & the glove / Machado de Assis ; translated by Albert I. Bagby, Jr. ; with a foreword by Helen Caldwell.
The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first time by Albert I. Bagby,...
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| Other title: | Mão e a luva. English. Hand and the glove. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2015], ©1970.
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| Series: | Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Summary: | The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first time by Albert I. Bagby, Jr., readers will find a younger, gentler Assis, writing a romantic comedy that is yet permeated with the lively wit characteristic of his later works. The story is a simple one-of love lost and love found. Of love lost by Estêvão, amiable but vacillating, who is bemused by his own romantic posturing, |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813161907 0813161908 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |