{"product_id":"contos","title":"Stories","description":"Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the most admired author of all, wrote novels such as *Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas* and *Dom Casmurro*, among other masterpieces of Brazilian and international literature. However, it is in the short story that he epitomizes his greatest qualities as a writer. This anthology contains some of Machado de Assis's best short stories, all from his most mature period, in which we can perceive the characteristic that consecrated his style: the use of irony, which not only reveals a skeptical spirit in the face of reality but also is effective as a literary stance, capable of identifying a storyteller who distances himself from what he tells and keeps the reader equally at a distance.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176277524732,"sku":"9788577530861","price":24.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3bb3223a976a7d542b03de514b9229bb_604bdbc0-8e3a-4b7d-a775-7df326f72bf4.jpg?v=1778326155","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/contos","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}