Books in the Classicos/Clasicos series

This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.

This English-Spanish bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.

Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.

This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

This translation, by a man who is himself a poet, brings to English readers the whole range of Dario's verse.

A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.

This novel, published in 1963 as En Chima nace un santo, makes important connections between the frustrations of poverty and the excesses of religious fanaticism.

In this Brazilian novel, originally published in 1875, the heroine uses newly inherited wealth to "buy back" and exact revenge on the fiance who had left her for a woman with a more enticing dowry.

Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.

An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.

The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.

A vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.

This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo's later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.

A novel about the course of a relationship between a widow and a young man.

These are the recollections of Alexandre-of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.

These two novels by one of Mexico's premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.

These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

A novel about a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves.

The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism.

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

A novel about life in a small Mexican town during the Revolution.

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

A collection of plays by one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater.

An English translation of the first major Spanish American novel to protest the plight of native peoples.

This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesias completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to Lopez Velarde's poetry.

This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.