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Yellow Sofa (Reissue) (Paperback) (Eca De Queiros)
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José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 112.0
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary, Classics
Series Title: New Directions
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Author: Eca De Queiros
Language: English
Street Date: April 18, 2016
TCIN: 50465866
UPC: 9780811222181
Item Number (DPCI): 248-07-1630
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