Midnight Mass

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Juan LePuen (Translator)

Overview

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.

Genre: short story
Length: 3,350 words

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015520484
Publisher:	Fario
Publication date:	10/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	893,029
File size:	38 KB

About the Author

Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is the most celebrated novelist of nineteenth-century Latin America. He also excelled in the short story.