About this ebook
O Enfermeiro (The Male Nurse) was published by Machado de Assis as a standalone, then joined the author ́s in the Várias Histórias (Several Stories), published in 1896. Procópio accepts the job offer: to take care of an ill colonel, who has an insufferable temper. Their relationship is complicated and dramatic, guiding the characters to a surprising ending.
About the author
Machado de Assis is the greatest name of Brazilian Literature, a genius of Fictional Realism. Between 1870 and 1900, he wrote novels, poems, chronicles, reviews and articles which fell into everyone ́s graces and influenced the 20th-century Brazilian writers. Born on the Livramento ́s Hill, in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a painter and a washerwoman, he acquired an extense literary culture, combining his bureaucratic career to his passion of prose. He produced masterpieces such as Dom Casmurro and Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas.
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