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alvar núñez
Cabeza de vaCa
c. 1490 – 1560, spanish
Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition
Revised and Annotated Translation by
Harold Augenbraum and an Introduction
by Ilan Stavans
The first major narrative detailing the
exploration of North America by Spanish
conquistadors, Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle
describes the nine-year odyssey endured
by him and his men after a shipwreck
forced them to make a westward journey
on foot from present-day Florida to
California.
160 pp. 978-0-14-243707-0 $13.00
george Washington
Cable
1844 – 1925, american
The Grandissimes
Introduction by Michael Kreyling
Setting forth formidable arguments for
racial equality, Cable’s novel of feuding
Creole families in early nineteenthcentury
New Orleans blends post–Civil
War social dissent and Romanticism.
384 pp. 978-0-14-043322-7 $16.00
julius Caesar
100 – 44 b.c., Roman
The Civil War
Together with The Alexandrian War,
The African War, and The Spanish War
by Other Hands
Translated with an Introduction by
Jane F. Gardner
A general of genius, Caesar was also a
vivid and powerful writer. These accounts
paint a full and surprisingly fair picture of
the great struggle that brought Caesar to
power and then caused his death.
360 pp. 978-0-14-044187-1 $14.00
The Conquest of Gaul
Translated by S. A. Hanford and
Revised with a New Introduction by
Jane F. Gardner
Caesar’s account of the Gallic Wars,
although based on fact, also served to
impress his contemporaries and justify
himself to his enemies. The earliest
eye-witness account of Britain and its
inhabitants appears in these famous
memoirs.
272 pp. 978-0-14-044433-9 $11.00
See The Portable Roman Reader.
abrahaM Cahan
1860 – 1951, american
(b. lithuania)
The Rise of David Levinsky
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Jules Chametzky
Originally published in 1917, this classic of
Jewish American literature tells the story
of a young immigrant who works his way
to success in the garment industry, but is
at a loss in matters of love and identity.
544 pp. 978-0-14-018687-1 $17.00
Pedro CalderÓn de la barCa
1600 – 1681, spanish
Life Is a Dream
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Gregary Racz
Life Is a Dream is a work many hold
to be the supreme example of Spanish
Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly
poetic language and humanist ideals, it
is an allegory that considers contending
themes of free will and predestination,
illusion and reality, played out against
the backdrop of court intrigue and the
restoration of personal honor.
160 pp. 978-0-14-310482-7 $12.00
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