by Júlio Dinis, Manuel Jorge Marmelo · Quasi Edições · tapa dura · ISBN 9789895523535
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«Uma Família Inglesa» is the novel by Júlio Dinis adapted by Manuel Jorge Marmelo, published by Quasi Edições in hardcover (430 pages, in Portuguese).
Set in Porto, the story follows the daily life of an English family and its relationship with Portuguese society, in a tale of nineteenth-century customs with romantic overtones. Manuel Jorge Marmelo adapts the text for younger readers and Sandra Serra illustrates it, making this classic of Portuguese literature accessible.
The original by Júlio Dinis was published in 1868; this Portuguese edition, from 2008, is part of the collection of literary classics told to children.
For young readers approaching the classics of Portuguese literature for the first time.
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.
