Holidays
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3440 words.
Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. Fiction.
Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class.
Member Since: May 10, 2012
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Biography
Brazil's Machado de Assis, the greatest Latin American novelist of the nineteenth century (1839-1908), also excelled in the short story.
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A School Story
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. Fiction.
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Published by Fario on November 10, 2012. Fiction.
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.
Trio in A Minor
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3310 words. Published by Fario on November 5, 2012. Fiction.
In "Trio in A Minor," Machado's classic tale of a love triangle in Brazilian high society, the intrigue plays out to the tune of the old sonata of the absolute.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3310 words. Published by Fario on November 5, 2012. Fiction.
In "Trio in A Minor," Machado's classic tale of a love triangle in Brazilian high society, the intrigue plays out to the tune of the old sonata of the absolute.
Three yet One
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Published by Fario on November 3, 2012. Fiction.
"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And she shifted her gaze from one to the next, to see if the pattern was the same, and she found that it was. Is that not delightful? Daisies painted on paper."
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Published by Fario on November 3, 2012. Fiction.
"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And she shifted her gaze from one to the next, to see if the pattern was the same, and she found that it was. Is that not delightful? Daisies painted on paper."
A Game
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 6450 words. Published by Fario on November 1, 2012. Fiction.
"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started laughing."
Price: $0.99 USD. 6450 words. Published by Fario on November 1, 2012. Fiction.
"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started laughing."
Midnight Mass
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3430 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. Fiction.
It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the man in whose house he is lodging. "Midnight Mass," perhaps Machado's most beloved tale, is a Brazilian classic.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3430 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. Fiction.
It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the man in whose house he is lodging. "Midnight Mass," perhaps Machado's most beloved tale, is a Brazilian classic.
Botany Lesson
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 6890 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. Plays.
Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg, a single Swede of thirty-nine, wedded to science alone, suddenly finds himself roped into giving botany lessons to a neighbor's lovely young niece.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6890 words. Published by Fario on October 19, 2012. Plays.
Baron Sigismundo de Kernoberg, a single Swede of thirty-nine, wedded to science alone, suddenly finds himself roped into giving botany lessons to a neighbor's lovely young niece.
Miss Dollar
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 9430 words. Published by Fario on October 12, 2012. Fiction.
A classified ad is offering a large reward for the return of a lost greyhound. Mendonça, a single young doctor who has found the dog, makes his way to a house on Rua de Mata-cavalos, where the reward he ultimately collects is much different from the one mentioned in the classifieds.
Price: $0.99 USD. 9430 words. Published by Fario on October 12, 2012. Fiction.
A classified ad is offering a large reward for the return of a lost greyhound. Mendonça, a single young doctor who has found the dog, makes his way to a house on Rua de Mata-cavalos, where the reward he ultimately collects is much different from the one mentioned in the classifieds.
Arms
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4090 words. Published by Fario on September 25, 2012. Fiction.
Fifteen-year-old Inácio has been sent to work as a runner for the lawyer Borges. Borges's wife, the full-figured twenty-seven-year-old Dona Severina, fires the young runner's imagination, and she herself finds her own ability to resist temptation sorely tested.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4090 words. Published by Fario on September 25, 2012. Fiction.
Fifteen-year-old Inácio has been sent to work as a runner for the lawyer Borges. Borges's wife, the full-figured twenty-seven-year-old Dona Severina, fires the young runner's imagination, and she herself finds her own ability to resist temptation sorely tested.
The Machete
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4590 words. Published by Fario on September 18, 2012. Fiction.
Inácio Ramos is a cellist. His young wife, daughter of a poor shopkeeper, does not understand his art. She is drawn instead to popular music and those who play it, above all to a mediocre law student who is back in Rio de Janeiro for the holidays.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4590 words. Published by Fario on September 18, 2012. Fiction.
Inácio Ramos is a cellist. His young wife, daughter of a poor shopkeeper, does not understand his art. She is drawn instead to popular music and those who play it, above all to a mediocre law student who is back in Rio de Janeiro for the holidays.
Point of View
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 5270 words. Published by Fario on September 12, 2012. Fiction.
"Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother; you see things through a different lens."
Price: $0.99 USD. 5270 words. Published by Fario on September 12, 2012. Fiction.
"Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother; you see things through a different lens."
A Fire
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 2170 words. Published by Fario on September 1, 2012. Fiction.
In Montevideo, on shore leave, a naval officer comes across a burning dressmaker's shop. Ever the chivalrous gentleman, he ignores the flames and the smoke and rushes up the stairs to the burning workshop.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2170 words. Published by Fario on September 1, 2012. Fiction.
In Montevideo, on shore leave, a naval officer comes across a burning dressmaker's shop. Ever the chivalrous gentleman, he ignores the flames and the smoke and rushes up the stairs to the burning workshop.
Wedding Song
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 2000 words. Published by Fario on May 14, 2012. Fiction.
Failed composer Maestro Romão, ill, is seeking desperately to complete a piece of music he had abandoned in 1779, shortly after his marriage. In this brief and moving tale by the Brazilian master Machado de Assis, one of his finest, the frustrated artist Romão struggles momentarily against the oblivion that, he now sees, will be his lot.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2000 words. Published by Fario on May 14, 2012. Fiction.
Failed composer Maestro Romão, ill, is seeking desperately to complete a piece of music he had abandoned in 1779, shortly after his marriage. In this brief and moving tale by the Brazilian master Machado de Assis, one of his finest, the frustrated artist Romão struggles momentarily against the oblivion that, he now sees, will be his lot.
The Gold Watch
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3100 words. Published by Fario on May 12, 2012. Fiction.
When Luís Negreiros returns home from the office one evening, he finds a fine watch and chain on a table in his bedroom. The watch isn't his and can't be his young and beautiful wife Clarinha's, either. Whose is it then? Luís Negreiros's suspicions are immediately aroused.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3100 words. Published by Fario on May 12, 2012. Fiction.
When Luís Negreiros returns home from the office one evening, he finds a fine watch and chain on a table in his bedroom. The watch isn't his and can't be his young and beautiful wife Clarinha's, either. Whose is it then? Luís Negreiros's suspicions are immediately aroused.
The Secret Cause
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4180 words. Published by Fario on May 10, 2012. Fiction.
The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis. Translated by Juan LePuen.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4180 words. Published by Fario on May 10, 2012. Fiction.
The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis. Translated by Juan LePuen.