TY - BOOK AU - Queirós,Eça de TI - O Mandarim AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Portuguese fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandarin_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Mandarim; Release date is 2005-07-29; Produced by Rita Farinha and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal).); Original publication data not identified N2 - "O Mandarim" by Eça de Queirós is a novella first published in 1880. When a poor Portuguese civil servant receives a visit from the Devil, he's offered an irresistible proposition: ring a bell to inherit vast riches from a distant Chinese mandarin. After succumbing to temptation, Teodoro discovers that fabulous wealth brings unexpected torment. Haunted by his crime, he embarks on a journey to China seeking redemption, only to find that escaping the consequences of avarice may be impossible. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16384 ER -