Contos (Eça de Queiroz)

Contos is a collection of short stories by Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1902, two years after his death.

Story titles

Singularidades de uma rapariga loura (Peculiarities of a Fair-haired Girl)
Um poeta lírico (A Lyric Poet)
No moinho (The Mill)
Civilização (Civilization)
O tesouro (The Treasure)
Frei Genebro (Friar Genebro)
Adão e Eva no Paraíso (Adam and Eve in Paradise)
A aia (The Nurse)
O defunto (The Hanged Man: literally, The Defunct One)
José Matias
A perfeição (The Perfection)
O suave milagre (The Soft Miracle)

"Singularidades de uma rapariga Loura" (Peculiarities of a Fair-haired Gir) was adapted to cinema by Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira in 2009. See Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.

Works by José Maria de Eça de Queirós

Novels	O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875) O Primo Basílio (1878) Os Maias (1888)

Other works	Contos (short stories) Cartas de Inglaterra (journalism)

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