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The Illustrious House of Ramires
Eca De Queiros
Translated by Ann Stevens
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Categories: 19th Century, Portuguese, Translation
Imprint: Aspects of Portugal
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Imprint: Aspects of Portugal
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Hardback (320 pages)
(Pub. Aug 1993)
9780856359682
£29.95 £26.95
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In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's time.
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