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O Alienista (B1)

The Alienist in easy Portuguese

Machado de Assis

Read The Alienist (O Alienista) by Machado de Assis in easy Portuguese: a free CEFR B1 graded reader to download as an EPUB. In a small Brazilian town a famous doctor opens an asylum, the Casa Verde, and begins locking up anyone who seems a little odd, until half the town is inside and nobody can say who is mad. The complete novella, one of the sharpest satires in Brazilian literature, with all thirteen chapters, Machado's irony and the period's views kept, in simple modern Brazilian Portuguese with a glossary after each chapter. Leitura fácil para quem aprende português (PLE), nível B1: O Alienista em português simplificado, grátis em EPUB.

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