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Pot Pourri - Whistlings Of An Idler

by Eugenio Cambaceres e Lisa Dillman

14,56€ + 10% CARD

 Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Zola to Argentinean literature in the late 19th century. His work is crucial to understand the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity and the role of the intellectual in that transition.
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Libertador - Writings Of Sim?N Bol''Ivar

by Fred Fornoff e Simon Bolivar

18,54€ + 10% CARD

 General Simon Bolivar, called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington of Latin America", was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. Although he didn't prepare a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations and letters contain ideas still widely relevant.
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Torn From The Nest

by Clorinda Matto De Turner e John Polt

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 A young couple arrive in a Peruvian province where the Indians are exploited by landowners and public officials and the women are especially abused by local priests. The idealistic couple attempt the difficult task of improving the lives of the Indians.
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Times Gone By - Memoirs Of A Man Of Action

by John H. R. Polt e Vicente Perez Rosales

18,54€ + 10% CARD

 Part social and cultural history and part commentary, this edition is edited with an Introduction and chronology of Rosales' life by Brian Loveman and Translated by John H. R. Polt.
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Memoirs Of Fray Servando Teresa De Mier

by Fray Servando Teresa De Mier e Helen Lane

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 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 Spaniards arrived. This was a subversive and controversial notion because it took away the rationale for the Spanish conquest of the New World - the conversion of the heathen. Colonial authorities arrested him and he was exiled to Spain where he was imprisoned by his own Dominican order. Servando escaped and spent 10 years in exile travelling throughout Europe disguised as a French priest, issuing revolutionary manifestos and sermons. He returned to Mexico afterIndependence and served the new government before his death. This is the only English translation of The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier available.
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Magic Lantern - Having A Ball And Christmas Eve

by Jose Tomas De Cuellar e Margaret Carson

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 Jose Tomas de Cuellar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humour and gift for caricature. "Having a Ball" and "Christmas Eve" are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-19th century by the periodical press.
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Girondins Of Chile - Reminiscences Of An Eyewitness

by Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna e John Polt

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 The Girondins of Chile deals with events that were inspired by the French Revolution of 1848 and offers a shrewd description of the emerging group of Chilean liberals. VicuÃ±a MacKenna participated in the uprising of 1851, yet his book on the events was not published until 1902.
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Battle Of Tomochic - Memoirs Of A Second Lieutenant

by Barbara Jamison e Heriberto Frias

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 This is the fictional narration of a military campaign ordered by the dictator Porfirio Diaz in October 1892, which resulted in the massacre of the village of Tomochic. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the author, and written in collaboration with the editor of a newspaper.
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Amazon - Land Without History

by Euclides da Cunha e Ronald W. Sousa

14,56€ + 10% CARD

 Eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, author of Os Sertoes, about his trip through the Amazon in 1905, written to bring to life the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens.
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Selected Writings Of Andres Bello

by Andres Bello e Frances Lopez-Morillas

15,89€ + 10% CARD

 Andres Bello played a role in shaping the national identities of independent Latin American countries. This text explores such subjects as grammar and philology, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others.
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Pot Pourri - Whistlings Of An Idler

by Eugenio Cambaceres e Lisa Dillman

14,56€ + 10% CARD

 Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Zola to Argentinean literature in the late 19th century. His work is crucial to understand the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity and the role of the intellectual in that transition.
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Memoirs Of A Militia Sergeant

by Manuel Antônio de Almeida e Ronald W. Sousa

14,56€ + 10% CARD

 First published in 1854, this delightful novel of urban manners follows a ne'er-do-well militial sergeant through his romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant was long considered an early picaresque romance that emphasized the peculiarly roguish element in the Brazilian character.
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Literary Memoirs

by Jose Victorino Lastarria e R. Kelly Washbourne

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 This memoir and chronicle of Chile's intellectual and literary development examines the Chilean struggle and illustrates the author's view that writers have a social and political obligation to raise the consciousness of their readers
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Leopold Lugones--Selected Writings

by Leopoldo Lugones

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 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 early examples of the fantastic in Latin American fiction and influenced Borges, Quiroga, and others They reflect an interest in the uncanny and inspired contemporary interest in animism and occultism because the protagonists of many the stories were scientists and doctors experimenting in the transmutation of thought. His prose works include La Guerra Gaucha (1905) and the essay El Payador (1916) in which he idealized the gaucho as a heroic figure, popular poet, and a symbol of Argentine identity. Lugones altered his political views many times, adopting radical anarchism, and later in life, fascism. He was therefore a controversial figure, both accalimed and scorned by his contemporaries. His adherence to the importance of literary form drew criticism from the new generation of writers, such as Borges, but Borges later stated in 1955 that "Lugones was and continues to be the greatest Argentine writer."
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Iracema

by Clifford E. Landers e José de Alencar

11,91€ + 10% CARD

 This poem is based on one of the best known literary pieces in the Brazilian canon. It tells the tale of doomed love between a soldier and an Indian maiden.
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Free Pages And Hard Times - Anarchist Musings

18,54€ + 10% CARD

 Provides a collection of essays, speeches, and polemical writings by the Peruvian writer and political reformer.
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Esau And Jacob

by Elizabeth Lowe e Machado de Assis

15,89€ + 10% CARD

 "Esau and Jacob" is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level, the story of Brazil itself, it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman. Assis presents a study of the doubts and insecurities of the human condition, rather than an heroic bible fable.
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Dreams And Realities - Selected Fiction Of Juana Manuela Gorriti

by Juana Manuela Gorriti e Sergio Waisman

9,26€ + 10% CARD

 Juana Mauela Gorriti (1818-1892) is one of the outstanding women writers of nineteenth-century Argentina. She wrote in various genres from fiction and travelogues to cookbooks and essays and she edited a number of literary reviews in Lima and Buenos Aires, where she put women's issues before the public.
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Amalia

by Helen Lane e Jose Marmol

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 In this text Marmol recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him from persectution, but can the couple escape to safety before they are discovered?
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Dom Casmurro

by John A. Gledson e Machado de Assis

15,89€ + 10% CARD

 Dom Casmurro, by the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (originally published in 1900), is one of the great unrecognized classics of the turn of the century. This new translation provides an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context, as well as an afterword by the Brazilian scholar Joao Adolfo Hansen.
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Libertador - Writings Of Sim?N Bol''Ivar

by Fred Fornoff e Simon Bolivar

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 General Simon Bolivar, called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington of Latin America", was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. Although he didn't prepare a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations and letters contain ideas still widely relevant.
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Slum

by Aluísio Azevedo

12,04€ + 10% CARD

 Published in 1890, The Slum is a tale of passion and greed with two intersecting story lines: a penny-pinching immigrant landlord who becomes a rich capitalist and discards his black lover for a wealthy white woman; and the innocent love affair between the immigrant and a mulata who live in a tenement owned by this landlord.
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Quincas Borba

by Gregory Rabassa e Machado de Assis

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Br''s Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis'' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth-century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political and social complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens a fascinating world to English-speaking readers. When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wealth and property, with a single stipulation: Rubiao must take care of Quincas Borba''s dog, who is also named Quincas Borba, and who may indeed have assumed the soul of the dead philosopher. Flush with his newfound wealth, Rubiao heads for Rio de Janeiro and plunges headlong into a world where fantasy and reality become increasingly difficult to keep separate. We encounter roses that speak to each other, discussing the character and actions of their owner, Sofia; even the stars above occasionally comment, sarcastically, on the humans below. When Rubiao falls in love with the wife of his best friend, we see adultery as yet another betrayal of reality. Rubiao''s own hold on reality becomes ever more tenuous as he makes elaborate plans for his marriage, even though he has no bride, and fantasizes that he has become Napoleon III. The very nature of reality, the novel seems to be saying, is an agreed-upon fiction told by an unreliable narrator. Brilliantly translated by Gregory Rabassa, Quincas Borba is a masterful satire not only on life in Imperial Brazil but the human condition itself.
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Posthumous Memoirs Of Bras Cubas

by Gregory Rabassa e Machado de Assis

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil, but his work has only recently become known to the English-speaking world. This new translation of Posthumous Memoirs of BrÃ¡s Cubas, first published in 1881, now brings Machado de Assis's sardonic wit and keen appreciation of human foibles to a much larger audience.
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