Flirts
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A good fit for
- Intermediate and advanced Portuguese learners who wish to engage with literature in the original
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century Portuguese literature
- Those who enjoy short or light works and are willing to try free e-books
- Researchers of Portuguese-language literature who need the original text
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no Portuguese at all and no translation tools
- Those who prefer contemporary bestsellers and have limited interest in classical works
Reading tips
- Look up the author and background first to understand the early twentieth-century Portuguese social context before reading.
- If your Portuguese is limited, read paragraph by paragraph alongside a translation or with a dictionary.
- Use the e-book's search function to mark unfamiliar words and review them together after finishing.
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About the author
Henrique de Vasconcellos (1876–1924) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. His career spanned both literary creation and journalistic commentary: he wrote literary works and also left a body of critical articles, active in the Portuguese literary and press circles of his time. His representative work, Flirts, is the main basis for understanding his writing; judging from its title and genre, it deals with emotional and social life and observes ordinary urban experience. Because public information is limited, details of his life, education and professional career are difficult to set out, and systematic scholarly study of his work is scarce. The library currently holds only one of his works, and readers may use Flirts to form a sense of his style.
