A classic master of Brazilian and world literature, Machado de Assis is receiving well-deserved recognition in the United States, thanks to the release of “Collected Stories of Machado de Assis” by Liveright. The 930-page book brings together for the first time in English all the stories written by Machado during his lifetime.
Machado de Assis was a pioneering novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. Widely regarded as the greatest writer in Brazilian literature, he did not achieve widespread popularity outside Brazil during his own 
lifetime. In 1897, he founded and became the first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was multilingual, having learned French, English, German, and Greek on his own later in life.
Machado’s works had a significant influence on Brazilian literary schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among his most famous works are Dom Casmurro (1899), Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (“Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas”, also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner), and Quincas Borba (also known in English as Philosopher or Dog?).