Author: Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros

"Dead how? As all of the men of the de Medranhos family were meant to die: doing battle with the Turk!" …

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"A distaff does not rule like a sword." …

An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady’s daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture. Eça de Queirós’s novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of …

A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words …

In a brilliant new translation, the wonderful penultimate novel by Eça de Queirós: “Portugal’s greatest novelist” (José Saramago) The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new t …