Author: George Ticknor
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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History of Spanish Literature
Author: George Ticknor
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Reasons of State
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. García Márquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the Supreme. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is Reasons of State, hailed as the most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba. As with Garcia Marquez, Reasons of State is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot. Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living the life of luxury in high-society Paris. When news reaches him of a coup at home, he rushes back and crushes it with brutal military force. But returning to Paris he is given a chilly welcome, and learns that photographs of the atrocities have been circulating among his well-to-do friends. Meanwhile World War One has broken out, and another rebellion forces the dictator back across the ocean. As he struggles with the Marxist forces beginning to find footing in his own country, and Europe is devastated, Carpentier constructs a masterful and biting satire of the new world order.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612192807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. García Márquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the Supreme. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is Reasons of State, hailed as the most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba. As with Garcia Marquez, Reasons of State is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot. Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living the life of luxury in high-society Paris. When news reaches him of a coup at home, he rushes back and crushes it with brutal military force. But returning to Paris he is given a chilly welcome, and learns that photographs of the atrocities have been circulating among his well-to-do friends. Meanwhile World War One has broken out, and another rebellion forces the dictator back across the ocean. As he struggles with the Marxist forces beginning to find footing in his own country, and Europe is devastated, Carpentier constructs a masterful and biting satire of the new world order.
The Civil Wars of Granada
Author: Ginés Pérez de Hita
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Category : Granada (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Granada (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Cigarrales de Toledo
Author: Tirso de Molina
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Category : Said Armesto, Victor, 1873-1914
Languages : es
Pages : 402
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Category : Said Armesto, Victor, 1873-1914
Languages : es
Pages : 402
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Diana Enamorada (1564)
Author: Gaspar Gil Polo
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Greek Pastoral
Author: Lazarus A. Lazarides
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Elizabethan Drama
Author: Thomas Dekker
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The Discovery of Britain
Privileged Persons
Mannerism: Style and Mood
Author: Daniel B. Rowland
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Category : Madrigal
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Madrigal
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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