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Author Azevedo, Aluísio, 1857-1913

Title The slum : a novel / by Aluísio Azevedo ; translated from the Portuguese by David H. Rosenthal ; with a foreword by David H. Rosenthal and an afterword by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 222 pages)
Series Library of Latin America
Library of Latin America.
Contents Foreword -- The slum -- Afterword
Summary A miserly immigrant landlord in Brazil strives to become rich while, in one of his buildings, another immigrant and a mulatto woman fall in love
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222)
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Translated from the Portuguese
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Subject Slums -- Brazil -- Fiction
Landlords -- Brazil -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Brazil -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Brazil -- Fiction
FICTION -- Historical.
Immigrants.
Landlords.
Man-woman relationships.
Manners and customs.
Slums.
Literatura brasileira.
Romance.
SUBJECT Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject Brazil.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenthal, David H., 1945-1992
ISBN 9780199725755
0199725756
9780198028413
0198028415
9780195121872
0195121872
Other Titles Cortiço. English