The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Machado de Assis,John Charles Chasteen

By Machado de Assis,John Charles Chasteen

observed through a radical advent to "Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil", those shiny new translations of 8 of Machado de Assis's best-known brief tales deliver nineteenth-century Brazilian society and tradition to existence for contemporary readers.

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