by Almeida Garrett, Luís Amaro de Oliveira · Porto Editora · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720301017
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«Viagens na Minha Terra» is Almeida Garrett's romantic travel novel, published by Porto Editora in paperback (333 pages, in Portuguese).
A work of Portuguese Romanticism, «Viagens na Minha Terra» blends novel, essay and travel diary. The narrator travels the road from Lisbon to Santarém and, amid the landscape and his reflections on the society, politics and culture of his time, tells the story of Carlos and Joaninha, the girl of the nightingales.
The work was originally published in 1846; this edition includes the didactic realisation by Luís Amaro de Oliveira.
For students of Portuguese literature and readers seeking a classic of Romanticism in its original language.
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major promoter of theater in Portugal he is considered the greatest figure of Portuguese Romanticism and a true revolutionary and humanist. He proposed the construction of the D. Maria II National Theatre and the creation of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
