The hand & the glove

Machado de Assis 1839-1908 (Author). Bagby, Albert I. Jr. (Added Author).

Summary: The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first time by Albert I. Bagby, Jr., readers will find a younger, gentler Assis, writing a romantic comedy that is yet permeated with the lively wit characteristic of his later works. The story is a simple one-of love lost and love found. Of love lost by Estăeväao, amiable but vacillating, who is bemused by his own romantic posturing,

Record details

ISBN: 9780813150918
ISBN: 0813150914
ISBN: 0813161908
ISBN: 9780813161907
Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 pages).
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Publisher: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], Ă1970.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-user.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Introduction; Bibliography; Foreword of 1874; Foreword of 1907; 1. The End of the Letter; 2. A Robe; 3. Next to the Fence; 4. Later Anguis; 5. Childhood; 6. The Postscript; 7. A Rival; 8. The Blow; 9. Conspiracy; 10. The Revelation; 11. Luis Alves; 12. The Trip; 13. Explanations; 14. Ex' Abrupto; 15. The Trouble with Go'Betweens; 16. The Confession; 17. The Letter; 18. The Choice; Conclusion.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.