El Mandarín by Eça de Queirós
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"El Mandarín" by Eça de Queirós is a novella published in 1880. When Lisbon clerk Teodoro reads about a wealthy Chinese mandarin in an old book, he faces a terrible temptation: ring a bell, and the distant stranger dies—leaving Teodoro his fortune. After succumbing, Teodoro inherits vast wealth but finds himself consumed by guilt. His journey to China seeking redemption leads to unexpected dangers and moral complications that test whether his crime
can ever be undone. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900 |
|---|---|
| Title | El Mandarín |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandarin_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_mandar%C3%ADn_(novela) |
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Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 48.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 18228 |
| Release Date | Apr 22, 2006 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 379 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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