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  • The Girondins of Chile

    Reminiscences of an Eyewitness

    by Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna, John Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean writer and historian who lived during those days in Santiago, relates the events of the time, events in which he was a participant. He ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Torn from the Nest

    by Clorinda Matto de Turner, John Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures the vices and virtues of a people, censuring the former with the appropriate moral lesson and paying its homage of admiration to the latter. In this ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Girondins of Chile

    Reminiscences of an Eyewitness

    by Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna, John Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean writer and historian who lived during those days in Santiago, relates the events of the time, events in which he was a participant. He ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Torn from the Nest

    by Clorinda Matto de Turner, John Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures the vices and virtues of a people, censuring the former with the appropriate moral lesson and paying its homage of admiration to the latter. In this ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Heidegger and Language

    by Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Krzysztof Ziarek, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Richard Polt, William McNeill, John Sallis, Peter Hanly, Françoise Dastur, Dennis J. Schmidt, Walter Brogan ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophy. They consider such topics as Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, expression in language, poetry, the language of art and politics, and the question of truth. Heidegger left his unique stamp on language, giving it its own force ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Times Gone By

    Memoirs of a Man of Action

    by Vicente Pérez Rosales, John H. R. Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Times Gone By

    Memoirs of a Man of Action

    by Vicente Pérez Rosales, John H. R. Polt ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.Haunted ... Read more

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  • The Double

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    by José Saramago ...
    Translated by Margaret Costa ...
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  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named ... Read more

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  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
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    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, ... Read more

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