Innocencia: a story of the prairie regions of Brazil

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Romance, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay In Year : 1889

Book Language: English

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The translator's preface
Chapter 1 - The sertão and the sertanejo
Chapter 2 - The traveller
Chapter 3 - The doctor
Chapter 4 - The home of the Mineiro
Chapter 5 - The precaution
Chapter 6 - Inocencia
Chapter 7 - The naturalist
Chapter 8 - The midnight guests
Chapter 9 - The remedy
Chapter 10 - Letter of recommendation
Chapter 11 - The breakfast
Chapter 12 - The presentation
Chapter 13 - Suspicions
Chapter 14 - Reality
Chapter 15 - The adventures of Meyer
Chapter 16 - The dyspeptic patient
Chapter 17 - The leper
Chapter 18 - Bitters and Sweets
Chapter 19 - Hopes and fears
Chapter 20 - Fresh anecdotes of Meyer
Chapter 21 - The Papilio Innocentia
Chapter 22 - Meyer departs
Chapter 23 - The last interview
Chapter 24 - The town of Sant'anna
Chapter 25 - The journey
Chapter 26 - A cordial reception
Chapter 27 - Hunting the doe
Chapter 28 - In the house of Cesario
Chapter 29 - The doe at bay
Chapter 30 - Too late
Epilogue - Meyer reappears

The story of Innocencia, an 18-year-old girl who lives in the prairies of Brazil, is a twist on the traditional love triangle. The plot has been compared to the more famous "Paul and Virginie" and "Romeo and Juliet", but it takes place on the dropback of the loneliness of the sparsely populated backregions in 19th century Brazil, visited by a German naturalist in search of new species of insects, Dr. Meyer, who unsuspectedly finds himself caught in a complicated maze of jealousy, love and distrust. Inocencia was the first book by a Brazilian writer to be translated into English, as the translator states in his preface. - Summary by Leni