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Index
The Alienist by Machado de Assis
Title page
Copyright
Contents
I. How Itaguai Acquired a Madhouse
II. A Torrent of Madmen
III. God Knows What He is Doing
IV. A New Theory
V. The Terror
VI. The Rebellion
VII. The Unexpected
VIII. The Druggist’s Dilemma
IX. Two Beautiful Cases
X. The Restoration
XI. Release and Joy
XII. The Last Part of the Fourth Item
XIII. Plus Ultra
Notes
Illuminations for The Alienist by Machado de Assis
Title page
Table of Contents
Machado de Assis’ Rio de Janeiro
A Historical Sketch of the City By James William Wells
The Bay of Rio by Fannie E. Coe
The City and Its Institutions by A.J. Lamoureux
Photograph
Photograph
Reading I
“The Fortune Teller” by Machado de Assis
Photograph
Art and Insanity in the 19th century
A Letter Regarding Literature and Art in the Mentally Abnormal by Dr. L. Pierce Clark
Genius and Insanity by Dr. William Hirsch
Reading II
Behind the scenes, or, Life in an insane asylum by Lydia Adeline Jackson Button Smith
Illustration
Illustration
Reading III
Life by Machado de Assis
Photograph
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