The Temptation of the Sea
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in Portuguese literature and the maritime motif
- Language learners with some Portuguese who wish to read literary texts closely
- Readers who enjoy lyrical prose and contemplative writing rather than strong plot
- Researchers studying Romance-language literature who need public-domain original texts
Not a good fit for
- Readers of fiction who prefer fast-paced plots and strong dramatic conflict
- Readers who do not read Portuguese at all and have no translation available
- Beginners who need detailed background notes and scholarly introductions
Reading tips
- Read slowly at a quiet time of day, noticing how the sea imagery shifts from paragraph to paragraph.
- Read through once for the rhythm of the language, then a second time to trace how the imagery corresponds to the emotional thread.
- Compare it with other Portuguese works about the sea to understand the continuity of this motif.
- Portuguese learners can excerpt descriptive passages and read them aloud to appreciate the musicality of the author's diction and syntax.
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
Augusto Casimiro (1889–1967) was a Portuguese poet and journalist. He served in the First World War, and his wartime experience deeply shaped his writing, lending his poetry and prose a reflective quality centered on war, human nature, and his homeland. His representative work, A tentação do Mar (The Temptation of the Sea), takes the sea as its central image, continuing the Portuguese literary tradition of looking toward the ocean; its language is concise and lyrical, expressing a longing for distant places and the unknown. Public information about his life and work is limited, and only one of his works is currently held in the collection. Scholarly and reader interest in him tends to focus on this poetry collection and on his writing against the backdrop of the First World War.
