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A cidade do vicio

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This collection of short stories and sketches follows a wandering narrator whose sharp, sardonic eye records urban decadence and rural life across Portuguese provinces. Scenes range from suffocating city summers and satirical portraits of literary camaraderie to luminous country landscapes, markets, and seafront vistas. The prose alternates vivid sensory description—fruit, heat, and vegetation—with ironic social commentary on hospitality, customs, and regional contrasts between lush northern valleys and arid southern plains. Travelogue passages, character vignettes, and moral observations combine to examine vice, vitality, and the shaping effects of place on people.

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Title: A cidade do vicio

Author: Fialho de Almeida

Editor: Ernesto Chardron

Release date: August 30, 2020 [eBook #63080]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: Portuguese

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A CIDADE DO VICIO

Porto: 1882—Typ. de A. J. da Silva Teixeira
62, Cancella Velha, 62


FIALHO D’ALMEIDA

A CIDADE
DO VICIO

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Ernesto Chardron, Editor
1882


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Joaquim Xavier de Figueiredo e Mello Oriol Pena


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