Júlio Dinis





Júlio Dinis

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born
November 14, 1839 in Oporto, Portugal

died
September 12, 1871

gender
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Also: Julio Diniz

Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho was a Portuguese doctor and writer.

Júlio Dinis died at the young age of 31 of tuberculosis, and some of its works were published posthumously. As of today, there are no translations of his works available in English.

He was a poet, playwright, and novelist, the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society. His novels, extremely popular in his lifetime and still widely read in Portugal today, are written in a simple and direct style accessible to a large public.

His first attacks of tuberculosis forced him to resign as deputy professor at the medical school of Oporto. He had already published several tales of country life in Jornal do Porto. Retiring to...more


Average rating: 3.65 · 691 ratings · 34 reviews · 23 distinct works
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1867 — 103 editions
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A Morgadinha dos Canaviais
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1868 — 10 editions
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Uma Família Inglesa
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1868 — 13 editions
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Serões da Província
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Os Fidalgos Da Casa Mourisca
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1871 — 12 editions
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Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1946
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Serões da Província. 1.º Vo...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1870
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Teatro I
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1947 — 3 editions
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O Espólio de Senhor Cipriano
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1972
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Serões da Província
Obras Completas de Júlio Dinis (1 book)
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“A causa disto é o sermos nós uma nação pequena e pouco à moda, acanhada e bisonha nesta grande e luzidia sociedade europeia, onde por obséquio somos admitidos, dando-nos já por muito lisonjeados, quando os estrangeiros se deixam, benevolamente, admirar por nós.”
Júlio Dinis, Uma Família Inglesa

“É mais fácil, e mais vezes se realiza, a transição da vida errante, tumultuosa e agitada para estes monótonos prazeres do viver doméstico, do que a inversa; como se o pendor natural da índole do homem o chamasse mais para ali.”
Júlio Dinis, Uma Família Inglesa

“Mr. Richard odiava cordialmente a França. Ou ele não fosse inglês.”
Júlio Dinis, Uma Família Inglesa