Estrellas Funestas

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

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Word count: 287K words
Chapters: 29

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.Estrellas Funestas by Camilo Castelo BrancoAuthor: Castelo Branco, Camilo, 1825-1890,Language: Portuguese, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Mar 18, 2010

Editor's review

Camilo Castelo Branco was a major nineteenth-century Portuguese novelist. This book is written in Portuguese and is a free eBook from Project Gutenberg; the main barrier to reading is the language rather than the edition. The work continues the author's characteristic themes of love and fate, making it a useful introduction to Portuguese Romantic narrative and to nineteenth-century social ethics and character psychology. The electronic edition is convenient for searching and comparative reading, and is also suitable for close reading in the original by language learners. Since the available information provides only bibliographic details, readers should not expect a modern introduction or annotations; it is best treated as supplementary reading for literary history and language study rather than a plot-summary introduction.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Upper-intermediate and advanced learners of Portuguese who want to expand vocabulary and language sense through literary originals
Students of comparative literature and foreign languages who need a sample of the nineteenth-century Portuguese novel
Readers interested in Portuguese Romantic literature and Castelo Branco
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Read the first two chapters to gauge the language difficulty and narrative pace, then decide whether to read closely or extensively
Prepare a bilingual dictionary and a character list, noting key names and emotional turning points as you read
If using the book for language study, choose three passages per chapter for copying and sentence-pattern imitation
After finishing, consult background material on Portuguese Romanticism and place the work in literary history

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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.