Á hora do crime
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Specialist readers studying Portuguese literature and nineteenth-century Portuguese narrative
- Language learners who want to encounter early Portuguese literature through the original text
- Readers interested in the literary-historical origins of crime themes
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking fast-paced modern suspense and strong plot twists
- Beginners with no Portuguese who are unwilling to use辅助 tools
- Classroom users who need modern annotated editions and detailed introductions
Reading tips
- First learn about nineteenth-century Portuguese society and literary background, then enter the main text.
- Read slowly, paying attention to narrative perspective and character language; do not rush to follow the plot.
- When encountering unfamiliar expressions, take notes to build experience with the language of early Portuguese literature.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Francisco Luís Coutinho de Miranda (died 1883) is an author about whom very little biographical information is available. His nationality, exact dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded, and public sources are limited. Only one work by him is held in the collection, Á hora do crime. Judging from this Portuguese title, the work likely revolves around the moment a crime occurs and carries elements of crime narrative or suspense; its Portuguese language suggests the author had ties to the Portuguese-speaking world. Because other biographical materials and works are lacking, it is difficult to describe his full writing style or assess his literary standing and influence. Researchers are advised to treat the book as a case study of nineteenth-century Portuguese-language crime narrative and to verify the author's identity through edition information and publication context.
