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The hand & the glove / Machado de Assis ; translated by Albert I. Bagby, Jr. ; with a foreword by Helen Caldwell

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Machado de Assis, 1839-1908
Uniform Title
Mão e a luva. English
Additional Titles
Hand and the glove
Published
Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Copyright Date
©1970
Physical Description
1 online resource (144 pages).
Additional Creators
Bagby, Albert I. Jr.
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Contents
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.
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 Estêvão, amiable but vacillating, who is bemused by his own romantic posturing,
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9780813161907 (electronic bk.)
0813161908 (electronic bk.)
0813150914
9780813150918
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