Os Maias: episodios da vida romantica
By Eça de Queirós
Cover: Retrato de Jaime Batalha Reis (1905), painting by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857–1929) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1929)
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Carlos da Maia, the gifted heir of an old Lisbon family, comes home a doctor with plans for a brilliant life and settles instead into the idle, witty society of 1870s Lisbon. When a beautiful and mysterious woman arrives in the city, his story becomes entangled with his family's past. Eça de Queirós's great panorama of a class and a country drifting.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.