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Title: THE HAND AND THE GLOVE
By: Machado de Assis, I. Bagby (Trans)
Format: Paperback

List price: £40.00


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ISBN 10: 0813150914
ISBN 13: 9780813150918
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY
Pub. date: 7 July, 2014
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Pages: 144
Description: Machado de Assis's second novel, The Hand and the Glove , is translated here 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.
Synopsis: 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 Estevao, amiable but vacillating, who is bemused by his own romantic posturing, and by Jorge, superficial and calculating. Of love found by Luis Alves, whose self-possession and determination seem destined to carry him far. The love of all three men is the proud and beautiful Guiomar, sure of her own heart but unsure, until faced by rival claims, of where to bestow it--a foreshadowing of Capitu, the intriguing heroine of Dom Casmurro. "English-speaking readers," says Helen Caldwell in the Foreword, "who are already acquainted with Machado de Assis will welcome this latest addition to the translated novels.True, it is a period piece; but its quaintness is a charm to carry us back to the Rio de Janeiro of the 1850s--to vanished courtly elegance arid attitudes...Now, we too can know what drew [Assis] back to this early tale, for The Hand and the Glove recreates in English the elegant background, the charming heroine, the comedy, and the light-hearted ebullience of the Portuguese original."
Publication: US
Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
Returns: Returnable
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A CHAPTER OF HATS (PB)
A M O E A LUVA (PB)
A MAO E A LUVA (HB)
A MAO E A LUVA (PB)
BRAZ CUBAS (HB)
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BRAZILIAN TALES
BRAZILIAN TALES
BRAZILIAN TALES
BRAZILIAN TALES (HB)
BRAZILIAN TALES (HB)
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BRAZILIAN TALES - PRIMARY SOURCE EDITION
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CONTOS FLUMINENSES
CONTOS FLUMINENSES
COUNSELOR AYRES' MEMORIAL (PB)
DOM CASMURRO
DOM CASMURRO
DOM CASMURRO
DOM CASMURRO (HB)
DOM CASMURRO (HB)
DOM CASMURRO (HB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
DOM CASMURRO (PB)
EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER (PB)
EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER (PB)
ESAU E JACO
GOOD DAYS! (HB)
HELENA
HISTORIAS DA MEIA-NOITE
HISTORIAS SEM DATA
HISTORIAS SEM DATA
HISTORIAS SEM DATA
HISTORIAS SEM DATA
HISTORIAS SEM DATA (CLASSIC REPRINT)
IAIA GARCIA (PB)
INFANCIA (PB)
LOOKING-GLASS
MAO E A LUVA
MEM RIAS P STUMAS DE BR S CUBAS (PB)
MEM RIAS P STUMAS DE BR S CUBAS (PB)
MEMORIAL DE AYRES (HB)
MEMORIAL DE AYRES (PB)
MEMORIAS POSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS
MEMORIAS POSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS
MEMORIAS POSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS
MEMRIAS PSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS
MISS DOLLAR (HB)
O ALIENISTA (PB)
O ESPELHO E OUTROS CONTOS (PB)
PAPEIS AVULSOS (HB)
PAPEIS AVULSOS (PB)
PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? (PB)
POESIAS
POESIAS (HB)
POESIAS (PB)
POESIAS COMPLETAS
POESIAS COMPLETAS
POESIAS COMPLETAS
POESIAS COMPLETAS (HB)
POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS
PSYCHIATRIST AND OTHER STORIES
PSYCHIATRIST AND OTHER STORIES (HB)
QUINCAS BORBA (HB)
QUINCAS BORBA (PB)
QUINCAS BORBA (PB)
RESURRECTION (PB)
THE ALIENIST (PB)
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