Dom Casmurro, by the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (originally published in 1900), is one of the great unrecognized classics of the turn of the century. This new translation provides an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context, as well as an afterword by the Brazilian scholar Joao Adolfo Hansen.

This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.