Author: Gertrude DiamantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
The Days of Ofelia, Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.
Author: Gertrude DiamantThe Pan American Book Shelf
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Days of Ofelia
Author: Gertrude DiamantPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123607
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
THE DAYS OF OFELIA, which was first published in 1942, is a book about Mexico that cuts through the surface and shows you the living people. ‘Vivid,’ ‘delightful,’ ‘completely real’ are worn-out phrases, but there are no others that do justice to this truly extraordinary narrative. Ofelia Escoto was a little girl that the author, Gertrude Diamant, met when she went apartment-hunting in the City of Mexico, and who became her maid. Ofelia’s father was a nightwatchman with a family of thirteen to support; and for many months the author shared the life of the Escotos, sympathized with them in their misfortunes, and watched the love story of Ofelia’s brother Daniel, with its tragic denouement. But the book is more than the story of the Escotos. It tells also of visits to the parched, poverty-stricken country of the Otomi Indians, where the author went to conduct ‘lost intelligence tests,’ of the picturesque dances and rituals of a wedding in tropical Tehuantepec, of the hazards of traveling in a Mexican bus along the Laredo highway, of the wisdom displayed by Mexican judges in handling the homeless children of the Revolution, and of the vagaries of Mexican officials who tried to deport the author on the ground that she was a Polish refugee. “It is amazingly well written; it has humor, it has charm, and it conveys the flavour of Mexican life with extraordinary accuracy. To me, it seems much the best book on life in Mexico which has appeared since Flandrau’s classic ‘Viva Mexico,’ both in the quality of the writing and in the accuracy with which it catches the Mexican scene. It is far superior to the innumerable books on Mexico that have appeared during the past decade.”—H. B. Parkes, author of History of Mexico
The New York Times Book Review
Author: Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Omnibook Magazine
Author: The Days of Ofelia
Author: Gertrude DiamantPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243317547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Excerpt from The Days of Ofelia: Illustrated They chorused raggedly, pointing: Arriba upstairs. And I saw that they all had the same shade of brown-greeneyes. Then they rose in a body and we all went up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.