Quincas Borba

Bento Santiago looks back on his marriage to Capitu and asks whether she betrayed him, leaving the reader to decide. The most argued about novel in Brazilian literature, in a designed edition with a preface.

Machado de Assis

A dead man narrates his own life story with no reason left to flatter himself. Machado de Assis broke the realist novel open here in 1881, decades before anyone else tried it.

Machado de Assis

Life inside a Rio tenement, where dozens of families, ambitions and appetites are packed into one courtyard. The defining work of Brazilian naturalism, in an illustrated edition.

Aluísio Azevedo

The love between a Tabajara woman and a Portuguese soldier, told as the founding myth of Ceará. Alencar wrote it in prose that reads almost like verse.

José de Alencar

Peri, a Guarani warrior, devotes himself to the daughter of a Portuguese nobleman on the frontier of colonial Brazil. Adventure, romance and the birth of the indianist novel in one book.

José de Alencar