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The illustrious House of Ramires
- Title
- The illustrious House of Ramires / Eça de Queirós ; translated from the Portuguese, with an afterword, by Margaret Jull Costa.
- Author
- Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3616 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Costa, Margaret Jull
- Description
- 355 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Eça de Queirós's superlative novel The Illustrious House of Ramires (originally published in 1900) is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The favorite novel of many Eça de Queirós aficionados, this late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo--charming but disastrously effete, idealistic but hopelessly weak--muddles through his pampered life, burdened by a grand ambition. He is determined to write a great historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his fierce medieval ancestors. But "the record of their valor," as The London Spectator remarked, "is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, he is continually humiliated but at the same time he is kindhearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel ... Eça de Queirós has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- New Directions Paperbook ; NDP1376
- Uniform Title
- Ilustre casa de Ramires. English
- New Directions paperbook ; 1376.
- Alternative Title
- Ilustre casa de Ramires.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Note
- "A New Directions Paperbook."
- "Published by arrangement with The Dedalus Press, London"--Title page verso.
- "Originally published in Portuguese as A Ilustre Casa de Ramires in 1900"--Title page verso.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3616
- ISBN
- 9780811226028
- 0811226026
- LCCN
- 2017000397
- OCLC
- 961006705
- Author
- Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900, author.
- Title
- The illustrious House of Ramires / Eça de Queirós ; translated from the Portuguese, with an afterword, by Margaret Jull Costa.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions Paperbook ; NDP1376New Directions paperbook ; 1376.
- Language
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Added Author
- Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3616