by Eça de Queirós, Ramalho Ortigão · Livros do Brasil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723817317
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«O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra» is the mystery novel by Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão, published by Livros do Brasil in paperback and in Portuguese.
In 1870, Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão devised this serialized fiction to stir up the country: a wild intrigue of mystery and horror with enigmatic doctors, femme fatales, elegant corpses and opium. When it appeared in the Diário de Notícias, many readers took it for a real case, and the public uproar surrounded the publication.
The novel was originally published as a serial between July and September 1870. The paperback edition from Livros do Brasil has 298 pages.
Suitable for those interested in nineteenth-century Portuguese literature and the origins of the mystery serial.
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
