Collected Stories Perennial Class Edition Contributor(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060932686 ISBN-13: 9780060932688 Publisher: Harper Perennial
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: May 2008 Annotation: This relaunching of a Marquez's celebrated short-story collection presents the stories in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: "Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, " and "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother." Click for more in this series: Perennial Classics |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 99034822 |
Series: Perennial Classics |
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 4.99" W x 8.34" L (0.57 lbs) 352 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 130 |
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Publisher Description: "García Márquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: - Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014. |
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