New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very readable and important survey of literature of Brazil, by a scholar and translator, and described at the time of its publication as the best study in English available. Includes criticism and analysis of Euclides da Cunha, Jorge Amando, Jose Lins do Rego, Machado de Asis, Gilberto Freyre and many other writers. Notes, bibliography, chronological table, index. xvi, 269, xii pp.