Author: ASSIS, MACHADO DE.
Title: Dom Casmurro.
Description: London: W.H.Allen, 1953. 1st British edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen Caldwell. Novel, set in the curious world of nineteenth century Brazil "written in the form of the intimate memoirs of an old lawyer, kown as "Grumpy", a nickname which gives the book its title. He was not always the disillusioned cynic he now appears..once he was an enthusiastic undergraduate, once a lover newly wed, proud of his wife's beauty and jealous of her charms. That was before he even suspected the secret that was to rob him of all happiness.." Pp.240, toned and spotted strip to endpapers. Blue cloth, illustrated dustwrapper dusty with pink stain to lower rear with small edge tears and loss to top edge of spine and corner tips. VG/G+.

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