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  • Black President
    Monteiro Lobato / Ana Lessa-Schmidt
    A translation of Monteiro Lobato’s 'O Presidente Negro ou O Choque das Raças,' presented in a bilingual format with English alongside the original Portuguese. Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil’s most imaginative writers. He is best known for his children’s series about the bizarre adventures of a feisty little girl and her irreverent rag doll. But Black President: Clash of the ...
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    16,31 €

  • To Love, intransitive verb
    Mario de Andrade / Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação / Ana Lessa-Schmidt
    Brazil in the 1920s was going through many transformations. A new republic was shedding old moralities. Agrarianism was urbanizing. Social mobility was cutting across classes. A nation in search of a new culture was reaching out to the sophistication of Europe.In this setting, Mário de Andrade tells the story of a Brazilian teen and a young German woman. He was born into a wea...
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    29,26 €

  • Good Days!
    Machado De Assis / Ana Lessa-Schmidt
    In 1888 and 1889, Brazil's most renowned writer, Machado de Assis, wrote a series of chronicles, or essays, for the Gazeta de Notícias, published in Rio de Janeiro. This was a very exciting time to be reporting in Brazil. In 1889, slavery was abolished, and in 1889, the country ended its monarchy and adopted a republican form of government. Neither transition was easy.Macha...
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    29,16 €

  • Trio in A-Minor
    Ana Lessa-Schmidt / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brazilian writer Machado de Assis is considered one of the greatest contributors to world literature. His work not only pushes the bounds of fiction but spans a crucial period in Brazilian history. In his early years, he set his stories in the New World version of Portugal’s rigid traditional social structure. His characters worked out their frivolous romantic concerns with exc...
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    26,90 €

  • Vertiginous Life
    João de Rio / Ana Lessa-Schmidt
    Rio de Janeiro in 1911 was a venerable city in a new republic just a generation old. The people of Rio felt as new as the new century. A new culture of immigration and education blossomed.  New technologies of machinery—Automobiles! Airplanes!—advanced with blinding speed. Feminism! Advertisement! Democracy! Global travel! New journalism! Tea, slander, migrant camps, uppity ser...
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    34,73 €

  • Religions in Rio
    João Do Rio / Ana Lessa-Schmidt
    Accounts of several religions in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro by literary journalist João do Rio. The author was way ahead of his time in his approach to journalism. He went where other reporters never went to see for himself the dark and hidden sides of Rio de Janeiro. The bilingual edition, with Portuguese and English on facing pages, was translated by Dr. Ana Lessa-Schm...
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    35,00 €

  • Miss Dollar
    Ana Lessa-Schmidt / Greicy Pinto Bellin / Machado De Assis
    Ten short stories by the Brazilian master, most from his early, formative years. Most have never been translated to Engilsh before. Presented in Portuguese and English. The stories reflect the social values of Rio de Janeiro as the country makes a gradual shift from Portuguese social mores to Brazilian mores. At the same time, the country is shifting from a monarchy toward a re...
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    33,36 €

  • Miss Dollar
    Machado De Assis / Ana Lessa-Schmidt / Greicy Pinto Bellin
    Ten stories by Machado de Assis, most from his early, formative period. Foreword by ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Introduction by Greicy Pinto Bellin. Greicy Bellin is co-translator with Ana Lessa-Schmidt. This is a good companion volume to go with 'Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis,' which is from his later, more literary period. It resents 21 stories, most never before...
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    17,35 €