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Martin Rivas : a novel
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ISBN: 1280760982 0198026684 9780198026686 0195107144 0195107136 9780195107142 9781280760983 0199938903 9780199938902 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile. The hero of the story is Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ambitious youngster from the northern mining region of Chile, who is entrusted by his late father to the household of a wealthy and influential member of the Santiago elite. While living there, he fal

Empire of dreams
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ISBN: 0300057954 9780300057959 Year: 1994 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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A collection of stream-of-consciousness jottings by a Puerto Rican woman on life in New York City. A portrait of the city by a writer with an acute sense of observation. The author teaches Spanish at a university.

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