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doMINGo F. sarMIeNto
1811 – 1888, argentinian
Facundo
Or, Civilization and Barbarism
Translated by Mary Peabody Mann with an
Introduction by Ilan Stavans
Written in political exile by one of
Argentina’s greatest statesmen, Facundo
is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho
barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga. But it is
also a complex, passionate work of history,
sociology, and political commentary, and
Latin America’s most important essay of
the nineteenth century.
320 pp. 978-0-14-043677-8 $16.00
“The single most influential literary work of
modern spanish american culture.”
—e d w i n williamson
FrIedrIch schIller
1759 – 1805, german
The Robbers and Wallenstein
Translated with an Introduction by
F. J. Lamport
The foremost dramatist of German
classicism wrote The Robbers, his first play,
in 1781; in the trilogy Wallenstein, written
nineteen years later, Schiller attempted
to combine the strengths of Sophocles,
Shakespeare, and French classical drama.
480 pp. 978-0-14-044368-4 $17.00
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arthur schopeNhauer
1788 – 1860, german
Essays and Aphorisms
Selected and Translated with an
Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale
This selection of thoughts on religion,
ethics, politics, women, suicide,
books, and much more is taken from
Schopenhauer’s last work, Parerga and
Paralipomena, published in 1851.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044227-4 $15.00
olIve schreINer
1855 – 1920, south african
The Story of an African Farm
Introduction by Dan Jacobson
Written by an avid feminist and political
activist and first published in 1883, this
masterful novel reveals much about
colonial history as it tells the story of two
orphaned sisters growing up on a lonely
farm in a Bible-dominated area of South
Africa during the 1860s.
304 pp. 978-0-14-043184-1 $13.00