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100	1		_aLobato, José Bento Monteiro, _d1882-1948
245	1	0	_aBrazilian short stories
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLittle blue book ; no. 733
500			_a"The translations are by a woman friend of Lobato's, resident in Brazil."
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-09
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Modern torture -- The penitent wag -- The plantation buyer.
508			_aTim Miller, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_aBrazilian short stories by José Bento Monteiro Lobato is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. It uses sharp, satirical fiction to examine Brazilian society, from petty politics and bureaucracy to rural life and social pretenses. An opening introduction frames the author as a nationalist satirist whose fiction doubles as civic protest. The three tales then cut to the bone: in “Modern Torture,” a small-town mail carrier, Izé Biriba, is crushed by patronage, endless errands, and public mockery, ultimately sabotaging an election and vanishing to escape his misery. “The Penitent Wag” follows Pontes, a lifelong joker desperate to be taken seriously; he schemes to make a frail tax collector laugh to death to secure the post, succeeds, is wracked by guilt, misses his chance anyway, and finally hangs himself—only to be laughed at once more. “The Plantation Buyer” portrays a failing farm whose owner stages deceptions to snare a buyer; a charming impostor woos the family and leaves, later returns genuinely wealthy to purchase the place, but is beaten off in rage, and the family loses its last hope as the daughter’s romantic dreams collapse. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1925
653			_aShort stories, Brazilian -- Translations into English
653			_aBrazil -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
700	1		_aGoldberg, Isaac, _d1887-1938
700	1		_aHaldeman-Julius, E. _q(Emanuel), _d1888-1951
830		0	_aLittle blue book ; no. 733
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78403
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