CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Michael Wood
INTRODUCTION
RIO TALES (1870)
Miss Dollar
Luís Soares
The Woman in Black
Augusta’s Secret
Confessions of a Young Widow
Straight Line, Curved Line
Brother Simão
MIDNIGHT TALES (1873)
The Blue Flower
Luís Duarte’s Wedding
Ernesto What’s-His-Name
Much Heat, Little Light
The Gold Watch
Point of View
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS (1882)
The Alienist
How to Be a Bigwig
The Turkish Slipper
In the Ark
Dona Benedita
The Bonze’s Secret
Polycrates’s Ring
The Loan
The Most Serene Republic
The Mirror
A Visit from Alcibiades
Testamentary Disposition
UNDATED STORIES (1884)
The Devil’s Church
The Lapse
Final Chapter
Nuptial Song
A Strange Thing
Posthumous Picture Gallery
The Chapter on Hats
An Alexandrian Tale
Cousins from Sapucaia!
A Lady
Pecuniary Anecdote
Fulano
Second Life
Admiral’s Night
A Sacristan’s Manuscript
Ex Cathedra
Galvão’s Wife
The Academies of Siam
ASSORTED STORIES (1896)
The Fortune-Teller
Among Saints
Her Arms
Fame
The Object of Desire
The Secret Cause
Trio in A Minor
Adam and Eve
The Gentleman’s Companion
Mr. Diplomat
Mariana
A School Tale
An Apologue
Dona Paula
Life!
The Canon, or the Metaphysics of Style
COLLECTED PAGES (1899)
The Cane
The Dictionary
A Wanderer
Eternal
Midnight Mass
Canary Thoughts
Xerxes’s Tears
Old Letters
RELICS FROM AN OLD HOUSE (1906)
Father Against Mother
Maria Cora
Funeral March
A Captain of Volunteers
Into the Mire!
The Holiday
Evolution
Pylades and Orestes
The Tale of the Cabriolet