An American adventurer, Captain Jack Forest, rides across the Chihuahuan desert into Santa Fé for the Feast of the Corn, and meets Chiquita, the dancer the whole town is talking about — daughter of a Tewana war chief, brought up by the mission padre. Around them move a scheming grandee with a secret marriage behind him, Forest's own disapproving family off the tourist stage, and a lost Spanish mine called the Esmeralda. Ritter Brown wrote it as a romance of the desert Southwest, and it end...

Excerpt from "When Dreams Come True": "The point where they halted commanded a sweeping view of the surrounding country. Just opposite, some five leagues distant, on the farther side of the valley which lay below them, towered the sharp ragged crest of the Mexican Sierras; their sides and foothills clothed in a thin growth of Chaparral, pine and juniper and other low-growing bushes. Deep, rugged arroyos, the work of the rain and mountain torrents, cut and scarred the foothills which descen...

Ambition and Achievement: A central theme of "When Dreams Come True" is likely the pursuit of ambition and achievement as the protagonist strives to realize their dreams and goals. The novel may explore the sacrifices and challenges inherent in the pursuit of success.Love and Relationships: The novel may delve into themes of love and relationships as the protagonist navigates romantic entanglements, friendships, and familial bonds. Their interactions with other characters may illuminate th...

The classic novel of Venezuelan ranchers battling over land and love—a forerunner of magic realism set in the "steamy, tumescent, lust driven" plain (Larry McMurtry, from the foreword).Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. First published in 1929, it is one of the first ...

I've always been a fan of nineteenth-century travel narratives in English. They make comparisons that reveal more about England or the US than they do about the country visited. They don't avoid showing their awe or their disgust. They're resolutely opinionated and unabashedly judgmental. In other words, their perspective makes the book. In spite of all that, someone reading these narratives today can learn a lot about the Spain of the time: history, politics, customs, economic conditions ...

Translated by Isaac GoldbergCONTENTSPRELIMINARY REMARKSTHE ATTENDANT'S CONFESSIONBY JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSITHE FORTUNE-TELLERBY JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSISLIFEBY JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSITHE VENGEANCE OF FELIXBY JOSÉ MEDEIROS E ALBUQUERQUTHE ...

A collection of nine books with an active table of contents.Authors and works include:Vicente Blasco Ibáñez:The Dead CommandThe Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseLuna BenamorMayflowerNostrum (Our Sea)The Shadow of the CathedralWoman TriumphantMiquel de CervantesDon QuixoteFirst Love: And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life

One of the great novels about obsessive love, The Woman and The Puppet was first published in France in 1898 and is considered Louys' masterpiece. It has inspired five film versions, including von Steinberg's in 1935 and Bunuel's in 1977. 'This elegantly simple story has lost none of its charm. It is carnival time in Spain, and a man named Andre falls in love with a woman he glimpses. She seems to reciprocate, but another man, Mateo, appears on the scene to warn Andre about the woman and t...

PINOCCHIOTHE TALE OF A PUPPETBy C COLLODIIllustrated ByALICE CARSEYandTHE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIOby C. Collodi [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini]Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa

New York Times Critics’ Best of the YearA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer. His prod...

This beautifully edited e-book contains two short novels. "The Pretty Sister of José" is a sweetly passionate story of love spurned and requited, complete with flamenco singers and bullfighters, all lovingly described by the pen of the incomparable Frances Hodgson Burnett. This story includes the charming original illustrations with plenty of ruffled dresses, bolero hats, flowers, and longing looks. The second story, "Carmen" by the great Prosper Merimee, was the basis for the libretto of ...

Romance" is a novel written in collaboration by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It is one of their three collaborated works. The plot of the novel is elucidative of romance and the fallacy and pursuits of youth. Reflecting the protagonists struggles through life this is a page-turner. Engrossing!