Contos (Eça de Queiroz)

Contos is a collection of short stories by Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1902, two years after his death.

Story titles

• Singularidades de uma rapariga loura (Peculiarities of a Fair-haired Girl)
• Um poeta lírico (A Lyric Poet)
• No moinho (The Mill)
• Civilização (Civilization)
• O tesouro (The Treasure)
• Frei Genebro (Friar Genebro)
• Adão e Eva no Paraíso (Adam and Eve in Paradise)
• A aia (The Nurse)
• O defunto (The Hanged Man: literally, The Defunct One)
• José Matias
• A perfeição (The Perfection)
• O suave milagre (The Soft Miracle)

"Singularidades de uma rapariga Loura" (Peculiarities of a Fair-haired Gir) was adapted to cinema by Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira in 2009. See Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.