The Yellow Sofa

The Yellow Sofa
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 93
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ISBN-10 : 9780811225847
ISBN-13 : 0811225844
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Book Synopsis The Yellow Sofa by : José Maria de Eça de Queirós

Download or read book The Yellow Sofa written by José Maria de Eça de Queirós and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.


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