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The Maias
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1888
- Originally in
- Originally in Portuguese
- Pages
- Pages 630
The Maia family lives in a great Lisbon house called the Ramalhete, where three generations of wealth and cultivation have produced, at the last, a young man with nothing to do. Carlos Eduardo is a doctor who rarely practices, forever brimming with plans for hospitals and books that dissolve, one by one, into cigars and brilliant conversation.
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