Title: O alienista

Title: O alienista Title Record # 1795435
Author: Machado de Assis
Date: 1881-10-15
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Webpages: pt.wikisource.org
Language: Portuguese

Note: Originally serialized in A Estação (Rio de Janeiro), 15 October 1881 to 15 March 1882.

Synopsis: A doctor with a new theory of insanity establishes a madhouse in a small town in Brazil. He begins to lock up the covetous, the vain, the duplicitous, until he has incarcerated four-fifths of the town ...

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1963^ⓘTranslated by William L. Grossman	English	The Psychiatrist [as by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis]
1963^ⓘTranslated by William L. Grossman	English	The Psychiatrist
1996	Catalan	L'alienista
1997	Esperanto	La alienisto
2012^ⓘTranslated by William L. Grossman. This translation was first published in 1963 under the tiutle "The Psychiatrist."	English	The Alienist
2018^ⓘTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa and/or Robin Patterson	English	The Alienist [as by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis]
2019^ⓘTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa Translated by Robin Patterson	English	The Alienist

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Psychiatrist and Other Stories	1963-00-00	Machado de Assis	University of California Press		$1.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 147	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
O alienista e outras histórias	1966-00-00	Machado de Assis	Edições de Ouro (Estrela de ouro #1336)	ES1336		196	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America	1991-11-00	ed. Thomas Colchie	Dutton	0-525-93367-0	$22.95^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 430	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Cathleen Toekle
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America	1992-11-00	ed. Thomas Colchie	Plume / Penguin	0-452-26866-4	$12.00^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 430	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Cathleen Toekle
L'alienista	1996-09-01	Machado de Assis	Quaderns Crema	84-7727-170-4	€7.50^?€: Euro	118	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	chap
La alienisto	1997-00-00	Machado de Assis	Fonto		€6.60^?€: Euro	95	unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	chap
Papéis avulsos	2011-01-28	Machado de Assis	Penguin Books	978-85-63560-14-8	R$34.90^?R$: Brazilian real	272	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Alienist	2012-08-00	Machado de Assis	Melville House (The Art of the Novella)	978-1-61219-107-2		64	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	chap
Coletâneas de contos	2016-00-00	Machado de Assis	Epub (Obras completas de Machado de Assis #2)		R$1.99^?R$: Brazilian real	903	ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis	2018-06-12	Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis	Liveright	978-0-87140-496-1	$35.00^?$: US dollar	960	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Machado de Assis	2019-07-00	Machado de Assis	Liveright	978-1-63149-598-4	$16.95^?$: US dollar	320	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Steve Attardo
O alienista	2019-12-01	Machado de Assis	Antofágica^?Antofagica	978-658-021008-4	R$49.90^?R$: Brazilian real	304	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Candido Portinari

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