The work of Abraham Cahan, especially his novel The Rise of David Levinsky, is a significant point of departure in understanding the fabric of the Jewish-American immigrant experience, its evolution, and the assimilation of a people in a new homeland. (more...)
by Eça de Queirós Translated by Ann Stevens Original title: Os Maias
Eça de Queirós was one of the leading intellectuals of the ‘Generation of 1870’, highly concerned with the future of his country in the aftermath of the civil war of 1828-1834. Portugal had emerged from this internal struggle as a constitutional monarchy, (more...)