New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extra

Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his wor

The stories in this book, many of them published in English for the first time, are taken from Machado de Assis's mature period of life. They echo Poe and Gogol