by Julio Dinis · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725681275
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«Morgadinha dos Canaviais» is the romantic novel by Julio Dinis, published by Biblioteca Ulisseia in paperback (416 pages, in Portuguese).
Henrique de Souselas, a jaded young man from Lisbon, settles in a village in northern Portugal, at the home of his aunt Doroteia. There he meets Madalena, the beautiful, intelligent, and energetic morgadinha, and falls in love with her. The novel portrays Portuguese customs and society of the 19th century, with criticism of religious fanaticism and hypocritical clericalism.
Originally published in 1868, this 1992 edition belongs to the Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses collection (no. 6) and includes an introduction by Maria Ema Tarracha Ferreira.
For readers of Portuguese classics and 19th-century romantic and historical novels.
Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho was a Portuguese medical doctor and poet, playwright and novelist. He was the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society. His novels, extremely popular in his lifetime and still widely read in Portugal today, are written in a simple and direct style accessible to a large public.
