A Mão e a Luva (The Hand and the Glove) is a romance novel written by Brazilian author Machado de Assis (1839–1908) and published in 1874.

Guiomar wishes to raise her position in Carioca society and is sought after by three men: Jorge, Estêvão and Luís Alves.

Jorge, nephew to the baroness and her obvious favorite, sees Guiomar as a path to social climbing,[3] and has "a lustful kind of love".

[citation needed] Luís Alves is a middle-term: his intentions are of an ambitious nature, but throughout the book he gradually becomes fond of Guiomar.

Jorge, with the support of the baroness and her British maid, Mrs. Oswald, requests Guiomar's hand in marriage.