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ernal dÍaz
del Castillo
1492 – c. 1581, spanish
The Conquest of New Spain
Translated with an Introduction by
J. M. Cohen
Fifty years after the startling defeat of
the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his
small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a
magnificent account of his experience as a
soldier in Cortés’s army.
416 pp. 978-0-14-044123-9 $16.00
Charles diCkens
1812 – 1870, english
American Notes for General Circulation
Edited with an Introduction by
Patricia Ingham
The youthful, still-rough United States
of 1842 is vividly recalled in this journal
of Dickens’s famous tour, offering a
fascinating view of the New World by one
of the Old World’s greatest writers and
social thinkers.
352 pp. 978-0-14-043649-5 $13.00
Barnaby Rudge
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Gordon W. Spence
In this superb novel about individuals
caught in the horrors of the rebellion of
apprentices against their masters, Dickens
dramatizes his fascination with private
murder and public violence.
768 pp. 978-0-14-043728-7 $12.00
Bleak House
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Nicola Bradbury and Original
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”)
Part romance, part melodrama, part
detective story, this novel centers around
the interminable land inheritance suit of
Jarndyce and Jarndyce and spreads out
among a web of relationships in every
level of society from the simple-minded
but self-important Sir Leicester Dedlock to
Jo the street sweeper.
1,088 pp. 978-0-14-143972-3 $12.00
A Christmas Carol and Other
Christmas Writings
Edited with an Introduction by
Michael Slater
“A Christmas Carol” not only celebrates
Christmas, but also speaks to the plight of
nineteenth-century England’s poor. Along
with Dickens’s other Christmas writings, it
has had a lasting and significant influence
upon our ideas about the Christmas
spirit and about the season as a time for
celebration, charity, and memory.
304 pp. 978-0-14-043905-2 $9.00
bernal dÍaz del Castillo
Bernal Díaz del Castillo was born in Medina del Campo, Spain, in 1492. After
participating in two explorations of the Mexican coast, he joined Cortes in
the march on Mexico and the battles for the city. He began his History of the
Conquest of New Spain when he was over seventy, and the last survivor of
the conquerors of Mexico. Fearing his literary abilities were not up to the task,
he nearly abandoned the work, but resumed it because he felt that the other
chroniclers of the period had not represented it accurately. He received a
municipal office in Guatemala, but his great estates did not yield him much
wealth, and he died around the year 1580.
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