José Maria de Eça de Queirós

The Yellow Sofa

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A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese masterJosé Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Vetch, John (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2584-7
EAN: 9780811225847
Produktnummer: 34248399
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 864 KB

Über den Autor

One of the leading intellectuals of the Generation of 1870, José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845-1900) wrote twenty books, founded literary reviews, and for most of his life also worked as a diplomat, in Havana, London, and Paris.