O Mandarim
Eça de Queirós in Portuguese
Read Eça de Queirós’s short fantastical novella “O Mandarim” — the haunting moral fable of a clerk tempted to kill a faraway mandarin for a fortune — in the original Portuguese, side by side with a fluent English translation, sentence by sentence.
The complete short work, presented as a bilingual reader with natural Portuguese, tap-to-define vocabulary, audio, and word-by-word alignment.
Part of a growing collection of classic stories for language learners.
Source & attribution
Original text: “O Mandarim” by Eça de Queirós (1880). Public domain, via Project Gutenberg #16384.