Quincas Borba

Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Machado de Assis, Joaquim M de Assis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro , Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major w... Lees meer

The Battle of Tomochic

Heriberto Frias

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted... Lees meer

Times Gone by

Vicente Perez Rosales

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 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 a... Lees meer

Noche Buena

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• A family seated round the fireplace Singing and making merry; A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the Christmas... Lees meer

Peruvian Traditions

Ricardo Palma

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twent... Lees meer

Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800

Joao Capistrano De Abreu, Jo?o Capistrano De Abreu

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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 ... Lees meer

Recollections of a Provincial Past

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President fro... Lees meer

Torn from the Nest

Clorinda Matto De Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigen... Lees meer

The Amazon

Euclides Da Cunha

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 'The Amazon' features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin in 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to... Lees meer

Cecilia Valdes

Cirilo Villaverde

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has... Lees meer

The Girondins of Chile

Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna, Benjamin Vicuuna MacKenna

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 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 socie... Lees meer

DOM Casmurro

Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, John A Gledson

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• "A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into... Lees meer

Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant

Manuel Antonio de Almeida, Miguel V De Almeida, Manuel Antonio De Almeida

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various... Lees meer

Dom Casmurro

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Latin America
• "A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into... Lees meer

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Gregory Rabassa

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• "Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas . But while he may be dead, h... Lees meer

Esau and Jacob

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 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 ... Lees meer

Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

Andrés Bello, Frances López-Morillas

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 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... Lees meer

Martin Rivas

Alberto Blest Gana

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 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 optimi... Lees meer

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Latin America
• "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 ... Lees meer

The Slum

Aluísio Azevedo

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written a... Lees meer

Sketches of Life in Chile

Jose Joaquin Vallejo

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," José Joaquín Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known ... Lees meer

The Magic Lantern

Jose Tomas de Cuellar

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• 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... Lees meer

Dreams and Realities

Juana Manuela Gorriti

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti bring... Lees meer

The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier

Fray Servando Teresa De Mier, Jose Servando Te Mier Noriega y Guerra, Fray Servando

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Latin America
• On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain-... Lees meer