A powerful and disturbing adventure story set in the wilds of Mexico after the First World War, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is B. Traven's much-beloved and thrilling tale of three desperate men who set out to make their fortune in the gold-filled Sierra Madre Mountains...and wind up confronting their own greed and paranoia along the way.The basis for the 1948 John Huston film of the same name (which featured Humphrey Bogart as Dobbs and an Oscar-winning performance by Walter...

" Traven's philosophical anarchism . . . his love of individual liberty and the primitive past could . . . command as much reverence . . . as . . . Henry David Thoreau." ―William Weber Johnson, Los Angeles TimesA cult masterpiece—the adventure novel that inspired John Huston's Academy-award winning film, by the elusive author who was a model for the hero of Roberto Bolano's 2666.Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he...

Government is the first installment of B. Traven’s legendary Jungle Novels, a series of six books detailing the oppression and subsequent uprising of the Mexican Revolution.The story follows Don Gabriel, a bureaucratic official in an isolated government outpost in a remote village. He comes to oversee the enslavement of Indians and ships them off to forced labor on the mahogany plantations owned by foreign investors. The impassioned but illiterate Indians ...

15 stories by the author (Otto Feige aka Ret Marut) who later became famous as B. Traven (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Death Ship etc), written during the years when he was an itinerant actor and journalist in Germany before and during WW1. Most of these stories first appeared when Marut was editing an obstreperous anarchist anti-war magazine, 'Der Ziegelbrenner ('The Brickburner') ...

A towering adventure story set in the wilds of Mexico after the First World War, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is B. Traven's much-beloved and thrilling tale of three desperate men who set out to make their fortune in the gold-filled Sierra Madre Mountains...and wind up confronting their own greed and paranoia along the way.The basis for the 1948 John Huston film of the same name (which featured Humphrey Bogart as Dobbs and an Oscar-winning performance by Walter Huston as the ...

Whoever survived the Yorikke could never be frightened any more during his lifetime by anythingStateless and stranded after he loses his passport, sailor Gerald Gales flees arrest and persecution across Europe, until he finally finds work on the Yorikke, a decrepit ‘death ship’ bound for destruction. Condemned to stoke the furnaces, Gales must navigate a labyrinth of surreal rules and the brutal realities of life at sea if he is to make it out alive. Firs...

“Readers who ignore the genius of B. Traven do so at their peril.” - The New York TimesB Traven’s Jungle Novels comprises six books written during the 1930s that observe the poor conditions of the Mexican Indians living in the southern state of Chiapas, whose forced work under exploitative conditions and labor camps foment rebellion and start the beginnings of the Mexican Revolution.This last installment of Traven’s legendary Jungle novels sees the...

Written in the 30’s, this story provides intricate details about the adventures of the poor scrapping men trying to find work in Mexico. It is about Spanish and American imperialism, the power of capitalism, the despoiling of the environment (yet another oil boom), religious elitism and power mongering and (mostly) the omnipresent greed in the heart of men. Three men seek their fortune in gold, finding that it is a chore and there are unimagined perils....

A short story collection from the author of the classic novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ."One of the narrative masters of the twentieth century." — New York Times Book ReviewB Traven's The Night Visitor and Other Stories collects tales of life in Mexico with elements of indigenous folklore including:"The Night Visitor""Effective Medicine"

From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven’s epic multivolume Jungle Novels series.An astonishing portrait of Mexican life in the early twentieth century, the story follows a young Indian named Andres Ugalde as he struggles to break free of debt slavery around the time of the Revolution.“B. Traven is coming to be recognized as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth...

B. Traven’s last novel, first published in 1960 but never before released in English, features a larger-than-life heroine: Ms. Aslan Norval, an American millionairess with Hollywood roots and political schemes up her sleeveThough Aslan Norval is wealthy beyond measure and contentedly married to an aging businessman, she finds herself tormented with the desire to do something epic, something no man has dared to do: she decides to build a canal across the continental...

A 1929 classic novel of a "terrifying night in a Mexican Indian village" has "extraordinary descriptive passages" revealing "advanced social ideas" ( New York Times).The locale is "huts by the river," a nameless Indian settlement deep in the Mexican bush, too small to appear on any map. Just as a party that has attracted many Indians from neighboring settlements is about to begin, death marches silently in. A small boy has disappeared. As the intimation of ...