Esau and Jacob : a novel

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Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between...

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Main Author: Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 (Author)
Other Authors: Lowe, Elizabeth, 1947- (Translator), Borges, Dain Edward (Editor, writer of foreword.), Moisés, Carlos Felipe, 1942-2017 (writer of afterword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Library of Latin America.
Subjects:
Twins > Fiction.
Sibling rivalry > Fiction.
Brazil > Politics and government > Fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series editors' general introduction
  • Foreword / by Dain Borges
  • Esau and Jacob / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
  • Counselor Aires and his moviola : an afterword / by Carlos Felipe Moisés
  • Editor's notes / by Dain Borges.

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