by José María Eça de Queiroz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482650470
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«La Ilustre Casa de Ramires» is the novel by José María Eça de Queiroz, published in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
Gonçalo Mendes Ramires, the last scion of a noble family fallen on hard times, tries to restore the prestige of his lineage through politics and writing. The action takes place in Tras-os-Montes and allows Eça de Queiroz to portray, with irony, Portuguese society at the end of the 19th century, its decadent aristocracy and its political ambitions.
The novel was originally published in 1900; this Spanish edition was released in May 1998 and has 280 pages.
For readers of classic novels who want to approach late-19th-century Portuguese narrative and an ironic portrait of aristocracy and politics.
