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Complete Stories

Clarice Lispector · 2015

A major collection gathering Clarice's short fiction across decades, from early experiments to mature stories of domestic revelation and inner shock.

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Counselor Aires's Memorial

Counselor Aires's Memorial

Machado de Assis · 1908

Machado's final novel takes the form of a diary, observing affection, aging, diplomacy, and emotional restraint with quiet precision.

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Dom Casmurro

Dom Casmurro

Machado de Assis · 1899

Bentinho tells the story of his love for Capitu, but his jealousy and narrative control make every memory unstable.

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Esau and Jacob

Esau and Jacob

Machado de Assis · 1904

Twin brothers embody rivalry, politics, and divided futures in a novel shaped by irony, observation, and national transition.

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Near to the Wild Heart

Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector · 1943

Clarice's debut follows Joana's interior life in language that feels restless, intimate, and radically alive.

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Quincas Borba

Quincas Borba

Machado de Assis · 1891

Rubião inherits a fortune and a philosophy, then enters a world of manipulation, vanity, and social performance.

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The Alienist

The Alienist

Machado de Assis · 1882

A brilliant doctor opens an asylum and begins classifying sanity and madness in ways that turn an entire town into a satire of authority.

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The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood · 1969

Margaret Atwood's debut novel follows Marian McAlpin, a young woman whose ordinary life begins to feel strangely unstable as marriage, work, identity, and appetite close in around her.

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The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector · 1977

Macabéa, a poor typist from Brazil's Northeast, is narrated by a male writer who cannot escape the ethical discomfort of telling her story.

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The Passion According to G.H.

The Passion According to G.H.

Clarice Lispector · 1964

A woman enters a maid's room, encounters a cockroach, and experiences a terrifying philosophical and spiritual dissolution of the self.

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The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood · 2005

Atwood retells the story of Penelope from The Odyssey , giving voice to the famous waiting wife and the twelve maids whose deaths haunt the myth.

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Machado de Assis · 1881

A dead narrator writes his memoirs with wit, vanity, cruelty, and astonishing freedom, turning the novel itself into a game with the reader.

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