NETTO, COELHO — Apologos: contos para crianças

Porto : PLivraria Chardron 1910 First edition. 282 p., frontisp. portrait author HARDCOVER: (Orig. green cloth wiith gilt titles and ill. Cover lightly spotted, top spine reinforced with tape, one small lib. stamp VERY GOOD) Very rare first edition. . Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto (February 20, 1864[1] – November 28, 1934) was a Brazilian writer and politician. He founded and occupied the second chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, from 1897 until his death in 1934. He was also the president of the aforementioned Academy in 1926. He was probably the most widely read Brazilian writer in the first decades of the twentieth century. However, he and his work were attacked by the Modernists during the Modern Art Week (or Semana de Arte Moderna, in Portuguese) in 1922 and this probably contributed to his later neglect by publishers and the Brazilian public.