The Maias

Name: The Maias
Author: Eca de Queiros

by Eca de Queiros

Multi-generational saga of a Portuguese bourgeois family's moral and social decline

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Eca de Queiros

Portuguese novelist considered the greatest figure of 19th-century Portuguese literature and the introducer of realism and naturalism to Portugal. The Maias and Cousin Bazilio are among the finest novels in the Portuguese language.

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