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The Adventures of a Cello

Carlos Prieto

In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art-a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 1978, the Piatti became the m...

Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico

Samuel Ramos

Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico, originally written in 1934, is addressed to the authors compatriots, but it speaks to people, wherever they are, who are interested in enriching their own lives and in elevating the cultural level of their countries. And it speaks with a peculiar timeliness to c...

Senhora

José de Alencar

"It is a truth universally acknowledged . . ." that a single woman in possession of a good character but no fortune must be in want of a wealthy husband-that is, if she is the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel. Senhora, by contrast, turns the tables on this familiar plot. Its strong-willed, inde...

Ariel

José Enrique Rodó

Irritating, insufferable, admirable, stimulating, disappointing Rodó: . . . you are part of our family quarrels, and must bear with your disrespectful, equally disappointed, intuitive, incomplete nephews, living in a world that you helped define for us, and offered unto our revolt.-from the Prologue...

Barbarous Mexico

John Kenneth Turner

American historians preoccupied with the stirring events of the Mexican Revolution and the years following tend to neglect the basic causes of the conflict. John Kenneth Turner-a crusading California newspaperman-presents these causes with brilliance and passion in Barbarous Mexico, his exposé of th...

Beowulf

The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic heros fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehman...

The Book of Dede Korkut

Faruk Sümer

One of the oldest surviving pieces of Turkish literature, The Book of Dede Korkut can be traced to tenth-century origins. Now considered the national epic of Turkey, it is the heritage of the ancient Oghuz Turks and was composed as they migrated westward from their homeland in Central Asia to the Mi...

After-Dinner Conversation

José Asunción Silva

Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the authors suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silvas After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin Americas finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work fo...

Coronados Children

JFrank Dobie

Written in 1930, Coronados Children was one of J. Frank Dobies first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier...

Xicoténcatl

As Spains New World colonies fought for their independence in the early nineteenth century, an anonymous author looked back on the earlier struggle of native Americans against the Spanish conquistadores and penned this novel, Xicoténcatl. Writing from a decidedly anti-Spanish perspective, the author...

Orpheus

Nazli Eray

Robert Finns translation of Turkish author Nazli Erays Orphée makes available to the English-language reader a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Erays surrealistic version takes place in a hot resort town in contemporary Turkey. The setting of an archaeolog...

White Metropolis

Michael Phillips

Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2007From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other...