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MENDES (Manuel). SEGUNDO Livro do Bairro. Lisboa. 1958. - MENDES (Manuel) SEGUNDO Livro do Bairro . Colecção «Originais Portugueses». Lisboa: Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, 1958. 258, [2] pp.; 185 mm. (Colecção Originais Portugueses) First edition. The Second Book of the Neighborhood is part of Manuel Mendes' trilogy of urban short stories, begun with Neighborhood (1945) and concluded with Third Book of the Neighborhood (1960), all published by the Cultural Expansion Society. The stories evoke the environments and characters of Lisbon's working-class neighborhoods, with a social slant and observation of the daily life of the working classes, in a style close to neo-realism. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate