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Here is the first new translation in half a century of this comedic masterpiece by veteran translator Costa of a Portuguese author whom Émile Zola considered a more talented realist than Flaubert. First published in 1900, the year of de Queirós's death, it chronicles the life of the charmingly ineffectual Gonçalo Ramires, Portugal's most authentic nobleman, whose lineage predates his co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More