# The sweet miracle

Author: Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900; Carlos I, King of Portugal, 1863-1908 [Illustrator]; Prestage, Edgar, 1869-1951 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74802

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+sweet+miracle+Queir%C3%B3s&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_EÇA DE QUEIROZ (born 1846, died 1900) was probably Portugal’s greatest prose-writer of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He is known to us mainly by that splendid romance, cousin basil, which has appeared In English under the title of “Dragon’s Teeth,”_[1] _but the_ CORRESPONDENCE OF FRADIQUE MENDES _reveals a versatility of talent in this satyrist, observer, and critic of life which even the foremost novelists have lacked, and_ THE CITY AND THE MOUNTAINS _contains pages of landscape-painting which are already classical. The prose-poem here translated shows that his journey through Palestine had penetrated the Master of Realism with the spirit of the East and calls to mind scen...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sweet-miracle-74802/chapters/1/index.md)