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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811212645
ISBN-139780811212649
eBay Product ID (ePID)661762
Product Key Features
Book TitleIllustrious House of Ramires
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicGeneral
GenreFiction
AuthorJosé Maria De Eça De Queirós
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-050804
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisEça de Queiros (1845-1900) ought to be, as the London Observer stated, up there with Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy as one of the talismanic names of the nineteenth century. His superlative penultimate novel, The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900) centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to the most noble family of Portugal. Gonçalo, charming but disastrously effete, muddles through his life while writing a historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his ancestors. The record of their valour is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, he is continually humiliated [but he] is at the same time kindhearted .... Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel .... Eça de Queiros has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal.( The London Spectator ), "Eça de Queiros (1845-1900) ought to be," as the London Observer stated, "up there with Balzac, Dickens, and Tolstoy as one of the talismanic names of the nineteenth century." His superlative penultimate novel, The Illustrious House of Ramires (1900) centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to the most noble family of Portugal. Gonçalo, charming but disastrously effete, muddles through his life while writing a historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his ancestors. "The record of their valour is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, he is continually humiliated [but he] is at the same time kindhearted .... Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel .... Eça de Queiros has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."(The London Spectator)