num_pages: 160
description: The beautiful light-skinned slave Isaura resists the harrassment of her newly-married owner Lencio son of the man who harrassed her mother until she died. Lencio sends Isaura to the fields to force her to yield but Isaura flees instead with her father to Recife. There Isaura meets and falls in love with a well-to-do young man lvaro but at a ball she is recognized and Lencio takes her back to his farm and orders her to marry Belchior the gardener. But Lencio is practically bankrupt so lvaro purchases his debts freeing Isaura and leading Lencio to commit suicide.
language: Portuguese
title: A Escrava Isaura (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira)
publisher: Editora Sol 90