| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 462 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Penguin classics
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Penguin classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Jose Marti (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Marti lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Marti's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life. Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Contents |
Jose Marti: An Introduction / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria -- Earliest Writings -- Abdala -- Letter to His Mother from Prison -- Political Prison in Cuba -- 1871-1881 -- Notebooks 1-3 -- Early Journalism -- Poor Neighborhoods of Mexico City -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Impressions of America (by a very fresh Spaniard) -- 1882-1890 -- Poetry -- Prologue to Juan Antonio Perez Bonalde's Poem of Niagara -- Ismaelillo -- Waking Dream/Sueno despierto -- Fragrant Arms/Brazos fragantes -- My Kinglet/Mi reyecillo -- Son of My Soul/Hijo del alma -- Free Verses/Versos libres -- My Verses -- Swiss Father/El padre suizo -- Famous Island/Isla famosa -- Love in the City/Amor de ciudad grande -- I Hate the Sea/Odio el mar -- Winged Cup/Copa con alas -- Notebooks 4-15 -- Undated Fragment -- A Passion -- from The Golden Age -- Pin the Tail on the Donkey: A New Game and Some Old Ones -- Letters from New York -- Coney Island -- Trial of Guiteau -- Prizefight -- Emerson -- Tributes to Karl Marx, Who Has Died -- from La America -- Brooklyn Bridge -- Glossograph -- Indigenous Art -- Mexico, the United States, and Protectionism -- Graduation Day -- Indians in the United States -- World's Biggest Explosion -- Impressionist Painters -- A Great Confederate Celebration -- Cutting Case -- Poet Walt Whitman -- Class War in Chicago: A Terrible Drama -- A Walking Marathon -- New York Under Snow -- Blaine's Night -- A Chinese Funeral -- Inauguration Day -- Political Correspondence -- Letter to Emilio Nunez. |
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English with some poems in English and Spanish. |
| Subject |
Poets, Cuban.
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Poets, Cuban. |
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FICTION -- General. |
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Martí y Pérez, José Julián, 1853-1895. |
| Genre/Form |
Cuban literature.
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Electronic books.
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Translations.
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| Added Author |
Allen, Esther, 1962-
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González Echevarría, Roberto.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 2002 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001027984
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780142437049 (DLC) 2001054865 (OCoLC)48144531 |
| ISBN |
9781101152850 (electronic book) |
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1101152850 (electronic book) |
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9781101153673 (electronic book) |
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1101153679 (electronic book) |
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0142437042 |
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9780142437049 |
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