Download or read book Epitaph of a Small Winner written by Machado de Assis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 1880s novel in which--after his death--a wealthy Brazilian records his life for posterity. The spirit of Bras Cuba s describes his experience on earth in politics, an affair with the wife of a friend, and his experiments to find a poultice to cure all ills.