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55 Portuguese and Brazilian classics in new English translations
clássicos portugueses e brasileiros em inglês
New English translations of forgotten Portuguese and Brazilian classics

Portugal's hidden classics, newly in English.

A girl's lament on a mountain above the Atlantic, Herculano's Visigoth priest torn between vow and love, Antero de Quental's sonnets, Guerra Junqueiro's ageing God, village tales of millers and foundlings, and from Brazil the Rio tenement of O Cortiço and the slave Isaura. 55 books, many of them in English for the first time.

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The translator

One translator, one shelf of classics at a time.

Portuguese literature in English usually means Camões, Eça de Queirós and Pessoa. These are the books around them: Bernardim Ribeiro's Menina e Moça, the Romantics Herculano, Castilho and Soares de Passos, the poets Antero, Junqueiro, Gomes Leal and António Nobre, the historical novels of Alberto Pimentel, Ana de Castro Osório's stories, and a Brazil shelf from Gonçalves Dias to Aluísio Azevedo.

AI-assisted translation, prepared and edited by Valentin Sarić. The translations are made from the Portuguese originals, complete and unabridged. They are AI-assisted and still awaiting full human editorial review.