O Brazileiro Soares. Com uma carta-prefacio de Eça de Queiroz.
by MAGALHÃES, Luiz de
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Porto, Antiga Livraria Chaardron / Lugan Genelioux, Editores, 1886.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (spine with vertical crack) Uncut and mostly unopened. Some occasional foxing. Overall in good to very good condition. xxi pp., (1 l.), 363 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. The preface by Eça de Queiroz occupies pp. [v]-xxi. This novel was the author's most significant work, and his first book of fiction. Eça was a close friend of the Magalhães, who collaborated in Eça's Revista de Portugal. He organized the publication of several posthumous works by Eça, as well as contributing to his In memoriam (1922).Luís [Cipriano Coelho] de Magalhães (Lisbon,1859-Porto, 1935), was a journalist, writer, poet, parliamentary deputy and government minister. Civil Governor of the Algarve in 1892, in 1906 he was nominated Foreign Minister in the government of João Franco. With the implantation of the Republic he maintained his monarchist convictions, and in 1919 during the revolt of the Monarquia do Norte, he was again chosen for the post of Foreign Minister. A poet and prose writer of great merit, he adhered to the literary movement known as Realism. He founded various reviews and many tertúlias, including the influential Revista cientifica e literária, along with António Feijó, which contained some of Magalhães' most important literary criticism; he also collaborated with the review A Sátira (1911). His Quinta do Mosteiro de Moreira da Maia was a great center of Portuguese intellectual activity, including the presence of Eça de Queirós, Antero de Quental, Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins, Jaime de Magalhães Lima, Alberto Sampaio and António Feijó.*** Innocêncio XVI, 44 (without collation); Aditamentos, p. 275; for the author, see also XVI, 379; XVIII, 20, 22, 23, 28; Aditamentos, pp. 275-6. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portugusa, pp. 293-4; Clara Rocha in Biblos, III, 379-81; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 425. Jisc locates a copy at British Library.
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- Bookseller
- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- O Brazileiro Soares. Com uma carta-prefacio de Eça de Queiroz.
- Author
- MAGALHÃES, Luiz de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Porto, Antiga Livraria Chaardron / Lugan Genelioux, Editores, 1886.
- Keywords
- Portugal, fiction, novel, Eça de Queiroz, Eça de Queiros
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