Machado de Assis 1839-1908 creator text utu 2017 monographic pt 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Quincas Borba" by Machado de Assis is a novel serialized between 1886 and 1891, then published in book form in 1892. The story follows Rubião, a naive provincial man who inherits a fortune from philosopher Quincas Borba and becomes entangled with an ambitious couple in Rio de Janeiro. As Rubião falls hopelessly in love with the manipulative Sofia, he gradually loses both his wealth and his sanity, embodying the harsh principles of "Humanism"—a fictional philosophy where survival means defeating others. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincas_Borba Wikipedia page about this book: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincas_Borba Release date is 2017-10-05 Produced by Laura Natal Rodriguez & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version,also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) Original publication data not identified Brazil -- History -- Empire, 1822-1889 -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55682 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55682 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134301.0 55682