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O Homem By Aluísio Azevedo
Cover: View of Gamboa, in Rio de Janeiro (1852) by Louis Buvelot (1814–1888) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1888)
Magdá, a councillor's daughter in Rio de Janeiro, grows up nervous, wilful and intensely loved, and her family's doctor takes an interest in her. Aluísio Azevedo's novel of 1887 is a naturalist study of a woman's passion and the medicine and morals of her day.
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Table of contents 1: Capítulo 1 2: Capítulo 2 3: Capítulo 3 4: Capítulo 4 5: Capítulo 5 6: Capítulo 6 7: Capítulo 7 8: Capítulo 8 9: Capítulo 9 10: Capítulo 10 11: Capítulo 11 12: Capítulo 12 13: Capítulo 13 14: Capítulo 14 15: Capítulo 15 16: Capítulo 16 17: Capítulo 17 18: Capítulo 18 19: Capítulo 19 20: Capítulo 20 21: Capítulo 21
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author: Aluísio Azevedo