Esau and Jacob

Machado de Assis · 1904 CE · Novel · Latin American · Victorian

Twin brothers born in Rio in the last years of the empire quarrel in the womb, according to the fortune teller their mother climbs a hill to consult, and grow up identical in everything except their politics, one monarchist and one republican, and in wanting the same young woman. A retired diplomat sets it all down in his private papers. The empire falls between chapters and alters nothing between the twins.

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• takes its title from ↑ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• ↓ Counselor Ayres' Memorial
  Machado de Assis · 1908 CE · Novel — continues this

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