Baltasar & Blimunda
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: November 13, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780345356765
Subjects: Historical - General; Non-Classifiable; General; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
First sentence: DOM JOAO, THE FIFTH monarch so named on the royal list, will pay a visit this night to the bedchamber of the Queen, Dona Maria Ana Josefa, who arrived more than two years ago from Austria to provide heirs for the Portuguese crown, and so far has shown no signs of becoming pregnant.