The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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A Frenchman, Marcelo Desnoyers, travels to Argentina in 1870 and marries the elder daughter of Julio Madariaga, the owner of a ranch. Eventually, Marcelo; his wife; and his children, Julio and Chichi, move back to France and live in a mansion in Paris. Julio turns out to be a spoiled lazy young man who avoids commitments and flirts with a married woman, Marguerite Laurier. Meanwhile, Madariaga's younger daughter has married a German man, Karl Hartrott, and the Hartrotts move back to Germany. The Desnoyers family and the Hartrott family are thus set against each other with the onset of the First World War. What will happen to the family now? Will there be any reconciliation or will the war destroy them all?

The Mayflower
The Mayflower

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-07-30

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 3752376015

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Reproduction of the original: The Mayflower by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The Cabin
The Cabin

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Story of farm life in Valencie.

Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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"From the lowest ranks of poverty to unprecedented heights of riches and popular acclaim-thus was the career of Juan Gallardo, Spanish bull fighter. In telling his story, Ibanez has achieved a novel even more dramatic and powerful than his legendary Four Horsemen. From his boyhood Juan longed to be a bull fighter and, as he climbs the ladder step by step, the reader lives with him in the very atmosphere of the arena. No detail of the picture is spared-one can see and almost hear the actual battle-the crowds-the many characters that stream through the pages. And Juan himself, with his vanities, his superstitions, his daring attacks, his wounds and recoveries, emerges as real, vital and colorful as the sport to which he and many others dedicated their lives."--Goodreads

Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)

Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-20

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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The title of this novel "Woman Triumphant" captures the novel's spirit. The woman in this case is the protagonist's wife. The wife triumphs, resurrected in spirit to exert a powerful influence over the life of a man who had wished to live without her. Excerpt: "Renovales, the hero, is simply the personification of human desire, this poor desire which, in reality, does not know what it wants, eternally fickle and unsatisfied. When we finally obtain what we desire, it does not seem enough. "More: I want more," we say. If we lose something that made life unbearable, we immediately wish it back as indispensable to our happiness. Such are we: poor deluded children who cried yesterday for what we scorn today and shall want again tomorrow; poor deluded beings plunging across the span of life on the Icarian wings of caprice."