" 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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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"

March to the Montería is the third volume in B. Traven’s Jungle Novels, a series of six books that depict the lives and injustices of the Mexican Indians prior to the Revolution.Known for his cult classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, made into a movie of the same name, the body of work by pseudonymous author B. Traven (“a riveting storyteller,” The Philadelphia Inquirer) has endured now for decades.

The Rebellion of the Hanged is the fifth book in the legendary author B. Traven’s multivolume retelling of the Mexican Revolution.Originally published in 1936, The Rebellion of the Hanged captures the struggle for freedom of the enslaved Indians against labor agents in this thrilling, action-packed account.“The Jungle Novels constitute one of the richest portraits of revolution in all literature.” —University Review

“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...

An itinerant worker leaves a trail of rebellion as he clashes with the exploitation of workers in this first novel by the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ."Readers who ignore the genius of B. Traven do so at their peril." — New York Times Book ReviewSet in the 1920s in Mexico, B. Traven's The Cotton-Pickers tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts i...

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 ...

Creation of the Sun and the Moon is B.Traven's retelling of the beautiful Mexican legend of a young Indian hero who saves the world by rekindling the sun after it's been extinguished by evil spirits, from the reclusive author of The Treasure of Sierra Madre.This novella includes color illustrations