A classic work of literature by the greatest author ever produced in latin america. If you have never heard of the nineteenthcentury brazilian. This is a bilingual edition with the portuguese original alongside the english translation. He was a poet, novelist, and short story writer, a cla. To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Oct 15, 2017 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. In this first comprehensive english language examination of machado in decades, k. The posthumous memoirs of bras cubas pdf free download. It was an old palmtree, and i believed in old palmtrees even more than in old books. Language english format pdf isbn 9780199938117 translator john a. Free download or read online dom casmurro pdf epub book. The book was published in multiple languages including portuguese, consists of 176 pages and is available in paperback format.
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