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Selected Writings
Av Leopoldo Lugones, Gwen Kirkpatrick
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) were …
Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History, 1500-1800
Häftad, 1999
729 kr
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In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of …
Dom Casmurro
Av Joachim Maria Machado de Assis
Häftad, 1999
348 kr
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This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.
Sketches of Life in Chile, 1841-1851
Av José Joaquín Vallejo, Simon Collier
Häftad, 2002
335 kr
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Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," José Joaquín Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known for their caustic wit, his writings were an instant success when they were first published in Chilean magazines and newspapers. This volume presents …
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Av Joachim Maria Machado de Assis, Enylton de Sá Rego
Inbunden, 1998
778 kr
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"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the extraordinary narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. "The gaze of public opinion, that sharp and judgmental gaze, loses its virtue the moment we tread the territory of death. I'm not saying that it doesn't reach here …
The Slum
Av Aluísio Azevedo, Richard Graham m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
485 kr
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First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may …
The Girondins of Chile
Reminiscences of an Eyewitness
Av Benjamín Vicuña MacKenna, Pedro Cristián Gazmuri Riveros
Häftad, 2003
317 kr
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The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean writer and historian who lived …
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Av Joachim Maria Machado de Assis, Enylton de Sá Rego
Häftad, 1999
654 kr
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Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.
Selected Writings of Andrés Bello
Häftad, 1999
431 kr
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Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of …
The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
Av Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Susana Rotker
Häftad, 1999
379 kr
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The story of Fray Servando's life in exile is a vivid account of the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a sermon in Mexico City claiming that the Indies had been converted by St. Thomas long before the …
Quincas Borba
Av Joachim Maria Machado de Assis, Celso Favaretto m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1336 kr
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Machado de Assis is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. Quincas Borba is one of his four most important novels and features some of the same characters as Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. The main character of this novel is a well-meaning country fellow who moves to the city with his dog, …
Quincas Borba
Av Joachim Maria Machado de Assis, Celso Favaretto m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
504 kr
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Machado de Assis is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. Quincas Borba is one of his four most important novels and features some of the same characters as Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas. The main character of this novel is a well-meaning country fellow who moves to the city with his dog, …
Martin Rivas
Av Alberto Blest Gana, Jaime Concho
Häftad, 2000
560 kr
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Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics …
Esau and Jacob
Av Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dain Borges
Inbunden, 2000
800 kr
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Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the …
Esau and Jacob
Av Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dain Borges
Häftad, 2000
354 kr
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Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the …
Torn from the Nest
Av Clorinda Matto de Turner, Antonio Carnejo-Polar
Häftad, 1999
429 kr
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Clorinda Matto de Turner was one of the major literary figures of nineteenth-century Peru. Her first novel, Aves Sin Nido (Torn from the Nest) was a landmark work in the indigenismo genre which depicts the lives of contemporary Indians in the rural setting. The novel's initial success was due to …
Juan de la Rosa
Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement
Av Nataniel Aguirre, Alba Maria de la Paz Soldan
Häftad, 1999
467 kr
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Nataniel Aguirre (1843-1888) was a statesman and active participant in shaping Bolivian politics and economics. His novel, Juan de la Rosa (1885) functionalizes the memories of the last soldier of the Wars of Independence. The story is told as the reminiscences of Colonel de la Rosa whose memories …
Recollection of a Provincial Past
Av Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Elizabeth Garrels
Häftad, 2005
430 kr
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Recollections of a Provincial Past is the best known of several autobiographies by 19th century Argentinean Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Local history books describe him as the second of three founding presidents of the Argentine nation. He remains one of Latin America's most influential writers as …
The Magic Lantern
Having a Ball and Christmas Eve
Av José Tomas de Cuéllar, Margo Glantz
Häftad, 2001
797 kr
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José Tomas de Cuéllar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of …
Iracema
Av José de Alencar, Naomi Lindstrom m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
335 kr
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Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar's many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed love …
Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant
Häftad, 2000
373 kr
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Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854-55, …
Literary Memoirs
Av José Victorino Lastarria, Frederick M. Nunn
Häftad, 2000
448 kr
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Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American …
Dreams and Realities
Selected Fictions of Juana Manuela Gorriti
Av Juana Manuela Gorriti, Francine Masiello
Häftad, 2004
298 kr
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One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime …
The Battle of Tomochic
Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant
Häftad, 2005
310 kr
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Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted in the massacre of the small village of Tomochic, located in the Tarahumara mountains and ordered by the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz. The …
Times Gone By
Memoirs of a Man of Action
Häftad, 2002
435 kr
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These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his …
Amalia
Häftad, 2001
373 kr
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Amalia was one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from …
Noche Buena
Hispanic American Christmas Stories
Häftad, 2000
579 kr
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A family seated round the fireplaceSinging and making merry;A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the Christmas season as seen through the eyes of the Hispanic Americans who celebrate it. Christmas is at times a universal story, and many of the images here are …
Cecilia Valdés
or El Angel Hill
Av Cirilo Villaverde, Sibylle Fischer
Häftad, 2005
591 kr
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Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Written in 1882 by Cirilo Villaverde in exile in New York City, but set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel recounts a story of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. The heroine of …
Pot Pourri
Whistlings of an Idler
Av Eugenio Cambaceres, Josefina Ludmer
Häftad, 2003
429 kr
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Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Émile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the …
El Libertador
Writings of Simón Bolívar
Av Simón Bolívar, David Bushnell
Häftad, 2003
485 kr
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General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the 'George Washington' of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became …
