The Gratitude

Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 85K words
Chapters: 9

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.A Gratidão by Camilo Castelo BrancoAuthor: Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890,Language: Portuguese, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Nov 6, 2007

Editor's review

Camilo Castelo Branco is a major nineteenth-century Portuguese novelist, and A Gratidão is a literary work he wrote in Portuguese, part of the free Project Gutenberg eBook series. The work unfolds around the theme of gratitude, with the author's characteristic delicate psychological portrayal and observation of social manners, making it suitable for readers interested in Portuguese-language literature and the narrative traditions of the Iberian Peninsula. The electronic edition is published by Project Gutenberg and is easy to search and read through on a computer or e-reader. As you read, note the ethical ideas and ways of handling human relationships in nineteenth-century Portuguese society, and you can also treat it as an introductory text for understanding Castelo Branco's style. Being a public-domain eBook, the edition presents the original text and serves as supplementary material for language learning and literary study, rather than for readers seeking modern annotations or introductions.

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Intermediate and advanced language learners of Portuguese who want to engage with original literature
Researchers interested in nineteenth-century Portuguese literature and Iberian narrative traditions
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Reading tips

Read through once to understand the plot and relationships, then go back and trace how the theme of gratitude appears in dialogue and psychological description.
Prepare a Portuguese dictionary or bilingual tool, and look up and take notes on nineteenth-century vocabulary and sentence patterns as you go.
Read it against other public-domain Portuguese short works to observe the author's narrative approach to ethical subjects.
For classroom use, select key scenes for close reading and discuss how characters' motives relate to the social background.

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According to the information, the book's language is Portuguese and the author is the Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco, so the text is in Portuguese, not an English or Chinese translation.

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Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890 Author

Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) was a Portuguese novelist whose works number 47 in this collection, showing how prolific he was. His representative works include Amor de Perdição: Memorias d'uma familia, Amor de Salvação, A espada de Alexandre, Salve, Rei!, and A Morgadinha de Val-D'Amores.Entre a Flauta e a Viola. Judging from these titles, his writing centers on themes such as love, religious salvation, history and kingship, and social manners, spanning novels, miscellaneous reflections, and narrative prose. His tone is sentimental and dramatic, and he excels at portraying emotional conflict and the twists of fate. Because public information is limited, details of his life, nationality, and common classification cannot be confirmed, and no existing introduction is available; even so, the scale and thematic range of the works in this collection indicate his standing in Portuguese literature and merit readers' attention to the works themselves.