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Carlos is the talented heir to a notable family in fin-de-siecle Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts and in politics. But he enters a society affected by powerful international influences - French intellectual developments, English trading practices - that trouble and frustrate him and in the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual helplessness. Carlos' good intentions decline, amiably, into dilettantism; his passionate love affair itself begins to suffer a devastating constraint. "The Maias" tells a compelling story of characters whose lives become as real and engrossing as any in Flaubert, Balzac or Dickens. This is his masterpiece, a novel of intellectual depth, historical compassion and great wit. Hailed as a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this remains Eca's most popular novel.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Maias
• Author: Eca de Queiros
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 634
• EAN: 9781857546088
• ISBN: 1857546083
• ID: 05117711
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 782 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 135 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2002

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