by Júlio Dinis · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725682548
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«Os fidalgos da Casa Mourisca» is the romantic novel by Júlio Dinis, published by Editora Ulisseia in 1994, with 435 pages in Portuguese.
Set in a village in the Alto Minho in the 19th century, the novel shows the clash between the emerging bourgeoisie and a ruined nobility clinging to its name. The Negrões family, the fidalgos da Casa Mourisca, and the romance between two young people from different classes reflect the transformations of Portuguese society.
The novel, originally published in 1871, includes an introduction by Ernesto Rodrigues; this edition is paperback.
For readers of Portuguese literature and 19th-century historical romance.
Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho was a Portuguese medical doctor and poet, playwright and novelist. He was the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society. His novels, extremely popular in his lifetime and still widely read in Portugal today, are written in a simple and direct style accessible to a large public.
