Dom Casmurro

About the author

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is widely regarded as among the greatest Brazilian writers of all time. The grandson of freed slaves, he was born to a poor family in Rio de Janeiro and, with little formal education, took work as a typographer's apprentice and began to write and publish at age 15. Machado went on to a successful career as a government bureaucrat and writer of romantic fiction. From the late 1870s his style became more complex and ironic, and he went onto write the ground-breaking stories and novels that would permanently charge the course of Brazilian letters, among them Don Casmurro, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and 'The Alienist'.

Product details

• Authors: Assis Machado de
• Assisted by: R.L. Scott-Buccleuch (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.06.2026
• EAN: 9781805332466
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-246-6
• Subjects: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Fiction: general and literary, Brazilian Portuguese