Error title
Some error text about your books and stuff.
Close

The Slum

by David H. Rosenthal

  • ISBN: 9780195121872
  • ISBN10: 0195121872

The Slum

by David H. Rosenthal

  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
  • Publish date: 02/01/2000
  • ISBN: 9780195121872
  • ISBN10: 0195121872
used Add to Cart $10.27
You save: 65%
FREE shipping on orders over $79!
Product Notice
Not returnable and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
new Add to Cart $29.07
FREE shipping on orders over $79!
ebook Buy $16.99
License: 180 days (until 01/12/2026)
License Details
You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferrable. More details can be found here. May come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Description: First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North American equivalent. Yet Azevedo also exhibits the naturalism of Zola and the ironic distance of Balzac; while tragic, beautiful, and imaginative as a work of fiction, The Slum is universally regarded as one of the best, or truest, portraits of Brazilian society ever rendered.

This is a vivid and complex tale of passion and greed, a story with many different strands touching on the different economic tiers of society. Mainly, however, The Slum thrives on two intersecting story lines. In one narrative, a penny-pinching immigrant landlord strives to become a rich investor and then discards his black lover for a wealthy white woman. In the other, we witness the innocent yet dangerous love affair between a strong, pragmatic, "gentle giant" sort of immigrant and a vivacious mulatto woman who both live in a tenement owned by said landlord. The two immigrant heroes are originally Portuguese, and thus personify two alternate outsider responses to Brazil. As translator David H. Rosenthal points out in his useful Introduction: one is the capitalist drawn to new markets, quick prestige, and untapped resources; the other, the prudent European drawn moth-like to "the light and sexual heat of the tropics".

A deftly told, deeply moving, and hardscrabble novel that features several stirring passages about life in the streets, the melting-pot realities ofthe modern city, and the oft-unstable mind of the crowd, The Slum will captivate anyone who might appreciate a more poetic, less political take on the nineteenth-century naturalism of Crane or Dreiser.

Expand description
Product notice Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Seller Condition Comments Price  
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado
Location: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
Condition: Acceptable
Shipping Icon
This item is in overall acceptable condition. Covers and dust jackets are
[...]
Price:
$4.17
Comments:
This item is in overall acceptable condition. Covers and dust jackets are
[...]
Seller: BooksRun
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Condition: Acceptable
Shipping Icon
Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
Price:
$5.55
Comments:
Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
Seller: Books From California
Location: Simi Valley, CA
Condition: Very Good
Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Price:
$5.62
Comments:
Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Seller: HPB-Movies
Location: Dallas, TX
Condition: Very Good
Shipping Icon
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Price:
$5.83
Comments:
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Seller: HPB-Diamond
Location: Dallas, TX
Condition: Very Good
Shipping Icon
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Price:
$5.83
Comments:
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Seller: Half Price Books Inc
Location: Dallas, TX
Condition: Very Good
Shipping Icon
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Price:
$5.83
Comments:
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Seller: BooksRun
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Condition: Very Good
Shipping Icon
Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
Price:
$6.36
Comments:
Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
Seller: FirstClassBooks
Location: Little Rock, AR
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$8.98
Comments:
Seller: SurplusTextSeller
Location: Columbia, MO
Condition: Good
Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code.
[...]
Price:
$16.36
Comments:
Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code.
[...]
Seller: ErgodeBooks
Location: Houston, TX
Condition: Good
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Library of Latin America.
Price:
$16.77
Comments:
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Library of Latin America.
please wait
Please Wait

Notify Me When Available

Enter your email address below,
and we'll contact you when your school adds course materials for
.
Enter your email address below, and we'll contact you when is back in stock (ISBN: ).