Os Maias

Luísa is bored, her cousin returns from Paris, and a servant sees everything. Eça turned a domestic affair into a case against the whole Lisbon middle class.

Eça de Queirós

A man who owns every modern comfort in Paris finds he owns nothing at all, and goes back to the mountains. Eça's last novel, and his warmest.

Eça de Queirós

A nephew fakes piety to secure an inheritance and travels to Jerusalem to prove it. A comic novel about hypocrisy that keeps its best joke for the last page.

Eça de Queirós

Simão and Teresa love each other across a family feud that will not bend, and neither will they. Camilo wrote it in fifteen days while in prison, which shows in every page.

Camilo Castelo Branco

Marta is pushed toward a rich returning emigrant while her heart stays with a poor man. Camilo's late novel of the Minho countryside, dark and unsentimental.

Camilo Castelo Branco