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In Sin rumbo Cambaceres portraits scenes of the Argentine upper class at the turn of the XIX Century. Detailed and realistic the author defines with literary uniqueness the atmosphere with the...

In Sin Rumbo (1885), the Argentine novelist Eugenio Cambaceres (1843-1889) offers a graphic portrait of the decadence of the Argentine upper class at the end of the Nineteenth Century, as seen...

The 20th century's first Argentine best seller was C?sar Du?yen's novel Stella of 1905. "C?sar Du?yen" was quickly revealed to be Emma de la Barra (1861-1947), who besides founding the first...

Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones Peruanas make up one of the most widely read works in the ambit of Spanish language literature. They were produced along almost seven decades, between the 19th and 20th...

The Spanish romantic short story is the great unknown of one of the most intriguing Spanish literary trends. Though being the forerunner to the brilliant Spanish short story period (Becquer, Valera,...

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the...

Author: Alberto Campos CarlisPublisher: StockceroPublication Date: Nov 01, 2002Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9874349905ISBN-13: 9789874349903

This Argentine literary classic, one of the most subtle and perceptive commentaries ever written about life on the frontier, appeared in print initially in serial form. Later published as a book, Una...

In her 1999 novel, Una mujer de fin de siglo , Maria Rosa Lojo evokes the decades that followed Rosas' dictatorship of Argentina (1829-1952), when the country began to move toward modernity,...

Walter Seymour's polished and accurate prose is full of sharp and witty remarks that make him a perfect example of the travelling gentleman of the Victorian era, a sort of real life Phileas Fogg...

Usos y costumbres de los salvajes de Virginia (Uses and Customs of the Savages of Virginia) is the first edition in Spanish of a fundamental work, published more than 4 Centuries ago, in Latin,...

The True Story and Description of a Country of Naked, Ferocious and Anthopophage Savages Situated in the New World America was one of the most published books about the New World during the XVI...

In 1908, Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru 1852-Argentina 1909), a lifelong journalist, feminist and writer, traveled to Europe: Viaje de recreo (Pleasure trip) is her account of her vivid impressions...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls...

One of the best travel books emerged from an Argentine pen is "Travels in Europe, Africa and North America" ​​1845/1847 "by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. At the time of leaving for Europe,...

Originally published in June 1931, "Ferm?n Gal?n, Political Biography" corresponded to the enormous popularity of Ferm?n Gal?n, a legendary figure after having led the Jaca uprising, and whose unjust...

Vida de la Madre Ines de la Encarnacion is an autobiographical account authored in the seventeenth century by a Spanish beata, or lay holy woman, named Ines Lopez Melendez (1564-1634) who later...