In the Ashes

Berthoud, Eugène, 1828？-1872Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 173K words
Chapters: 18

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.Nas Cinzas by Eugène BerthoudAuthor: Berthoud, Eugène, 1828?-1872,Language: Portuguese, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Nov 25, 2009

Editor's review

Nas Cinzas is a public-domain literary work in Portuguese. Its author, Eugène Berthoud, was active in the nineteenth century. The book is released free by Project Gutenberg under the Romance literatures category covering French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. From the available information, it is a digitized presentation of a nineteenth-century Portuguese text, suited to readers interested in Romance-language literature, reading Portuguese originals, and the digitization of public-domain books. Its value lies not in the readability of a contemporary bestseller but in providing a primary text that language learners and literary researchers can engage with directly. It is best treated as a corpus or literary-historical source rather than read in expectation of a tightly plotted modern novel. Because the Gutenberg version is mainly plain text with limited layout and annotation, readers need some foundation in Portuguese or dictionary tools. Overall, this is a niche but documentarily meaningful public-domain ebook, suited to slow reading, comparative reading, and language-study contexts.

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First read through the opening pages to gauge the language difficulty, then decide between close and extensive reading.
Prepare a Portuguese dictionary or translation tool; mark unfamiliar words and sentence patterns as you read.
Read alongside other nineteenth-century Portuguese works to sense the language style.
Use the search function of the electronic text to record character and thematic threads.

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The original is in Portuguese and is a nineteenth-century text; at least intermediate Portuguese reading ability is recommended. Beginners can use bilingual dictionaries and translation tools, but will still find it demanding. If you only want a summary of the content, look for introductory material first before deciding whether to read the original.

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It can serve as advanced reading material, but is not recommended as a zero-beginner textbook. Nineteenth-century literary language differs from modern speech and its sentence patterns are complex. If you already have some grammar foundation, treating it as close-reading material and analyzing it paragraph by paragraph with a dictionary can help familiarize you with written and literary expression.

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Berthoud, Eugène, 1828？-1872 Author

Eugène Berthoud (1828?–1872) was a nineteenth-century author whose exact nationality and biographical background are poorly documented in publicly available sources. Even his year of birth remains uncertain, with only a possible date of around 1828 and a confirmed death in 1872. One work by him is held in this collection, Nas Cinzas, a title that may be rendered as “In the Ashes.” Judging from this surviving work, Berthoud’s writing appears marked by a lyrical and reflective quality; the title itself suggests a backward glance at loss, embers, and memory, and may involve personal feeling or the experience of his era. Given the scarcity of biographical material, his full body of work, literary standing, and later influence cannot yet be described in detail. Readers seeking to know this author better would do well to begin with the text of Nas Cinzas and consider it within the literary context of the nineteenth century.