Helena

Name: Helena
Author: Machado de Assis

by Machado de Assis

A young woman's sacrifice for an orphan girl she considers her sister tests family loyalty

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Machado de Assis

The greatest Brazilian novelist, whose ironic, metafictional masterworks Epitaph of a Small Winner and Dom Casmurro anticipated modernist fiction by decades. He is a foundational figure in Latin American literature.

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