While her engineer husband Jorge is away, the romantic, idle Luiza is seduced in Lisbon by her worldly cousin Bazilio, newly returned from abroad. When her resentful maid Juliana steals the lovers’ letters, Luiza’s adventure turns into a nightmare of extortion. This 1889 American translation of O Primo Basílio softened some passages for its readers.
The great Portuguese realist’s answer to Madame Bovary, an unsparing study of a marriage and a household. Download the free EPUB.