Complete Works of Eça de Queiroz I (Cousin Basílio)

Written in England, Cousin Basílio, published in 1878, is a novel of manners depicting the Lisbon middle class and a moralizing satire on the romanticism of society at the time.
Luísa is a victim of her negative readings and her cousin's moral depravity when her husband's absence left her to her inner emptiness. She is a victim of idleness.
Eça artistically suggests the psychological traits of the various characters in the work with their dramas, which in no way weaken the tragic, dense atmosphere of the heroine's drama.