The Maias

ISBN-13: 9781857546088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 634 str.

Jose Maria De Eca De Queiros; Eca de Quiiros

Opis

In this simple tale, the novel's hero is the talented heir to a notable family in Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts, and in politics. But he enters a society affected by powerful international influences French intellectual developments, English trading practices that trouble and frustrate him. In the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual helplessness and his good intentions are reduced to dilettantism. His passionate love affair begins to suffer a devastating constraint.
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