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14 de sept. de 2015 · The illustrious house of Ramires. by. Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900. Publication date. 1968. Topics. Authors -- Fiction, Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction, Portugal -- Fiction. Publisher. Athens, Ohio University Press.
The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is 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.
The Illustrious House of Ramires. Eça de Queirós. Ohio University Press, 1968 - Fiction - 309 pages. "Conçalo Mendes Ramires, one of the last scions of a family older than Portugal itself,...
23 de may. de 2017 · The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is 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.
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,...
In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about...
23 de may. de 2017 · 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.
