{"publishers": ["Carcanet in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation"], "number_of_pages": 293, "series": ["Aspects of Portugal"], "covers": [3765561], "key": "/books/OL556965M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL73090A"}], "publish_places": ["Manchester [England]"], "work_title": ["Capital."], "pagination": "vii, 293 p. :", "source_records": ["marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part25.utf8:154819368:797", "bwb:9781857541977", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:450565818:1635", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_025.bib.mrc:137447962:1423"], "title": "To the capital", "identifiers": {"librarything": ["1069940"], "goodreads": ["1092421"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "publish_date": "1995", "publish_country": "enk", "by_statement": "Ec\u0327a de Queiro\u0301s ; [English translation, John Vetch].", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL846528W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "isbn_10": ["1857541979"], "lccn": ["96139702", "gb95048538"], "oclc_numbers": ["32667922"], "classifications": {}, "dewey_decimal_class": ["869.3/3"], "lc_classifications": ["PQ9261.E3 C313 1995", "PQ9261.E3C313 1995"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Artur Corvelo inherits a legacy, quits his provincial home town and sets out for the capital. Armed hopefully with some poems and a heroic play, he seeks literary renown and entry into fashionable intellectual and social circles. Disillusion follows and he returns to his origins, his play unperformed, poorer certainly, wiser perhaps.\n\nAs so often with Eca de Queiros, the plot is simple; the fascination of the novel lies in the characters, the incidents and, above all, the warm humanity and mordant wit of this acute observer of the human condition."}, "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-12-20T12:11:28.113325"}}