by Eça de Queirós · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789726115571
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«Os Maias» is the realist novel by Eça de Queirós, published by Biblioteca Visão in hardcover (256 pages, in Portuguese).
Set in Lisbon at the end of the 19th century, the novel follows several generations of the Maia family and shows the decline of the Portuguese aristocracy. Love, family secrets and social criticism combine with irony and humor, in a story that reflects on the fate of a generation and of the country.
The work belongs to the Coleção Novis, where it appears as volume I. The original edition of «Os Maias» was published in 1888.
For readers interested in the classic novel and in 19th-century Portuguese literature.
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
