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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro and, as well as his seven short-story collections, wrote such groundbreaking novels as Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba and The Alienist.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro and, as well as his seven short-story collections, wrote such groundbreaking novels as Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba and The Alienist.

Books by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

  • The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson, Michael Wood

    Hardback, 2018

    A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.
  • Machado de Assis: 26 Stories

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson, Michael Wood

    Paperback, 2019

    This “watershed collection” (The Wall Street Journal) now appears in a selected paperback edition with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.
  • The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson, Michael Wood

    E Book, 2018

    A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.
  • Machado de Assis: 26 Stories

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson, Michael Wood

    E Book, 2019

    This “watershed collection” (The Wall Street Journal) now appears in a selected paperback edition with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.
  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

    Hardback, 2020

    Machado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.
  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

    Paperback, 2021

    Machado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.
  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

    E Book, 2020

    Machado de Assis’s iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.
  • Dom Casmurro: A Novel

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

    Hardback, 2023

    A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur
  • Dom Casmurro: A Novel

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

    E Book

    A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur
  • Quincas Borba: A Novel

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

    Hardback, 2024

    A vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis's classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindled