Junqueira Smith Ligia (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Unstated Publication Date. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY; no loan pockets. Text/BRAND NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering. Light soiling to leading text block. 191 pgs. 1963 novel from Ligia Junqueira Caiubi Smith, who, in the 1940s and 1950s, translated works into Portugueses include those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Portrait of Dorian Gray ( Oscar Wilde ), The Razor's Wire ( William Somerset Maugham ), and Smooth is the Night ( F. Scott Fitzgerald ). A love story set to the mood of lines of Edith Piaf's lyrical poem "Mea Culpa": "Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa!/ I sinned from pride/ To have you all to me/ Without a moment's thought/ Mea culpa! / . I sinned in anger/ Against you! Against myself!/ Against all humanity/ Mea culpa!". …