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The Gaucho Juan Moreira: True Crime in Nineteenth-Century Argentina

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The Gaucho Juan Moreira: True Crime in Nineteenth-Century Argentina - Gutierrez, Eduardo, and Chasteen, John Charles (Translated by), and Acree, William G. (Editor)
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Argentinian writer Eduardo Guti???rrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble outlaw whose life and name became legendary in the R???o de la Plata during the late 19th century. John Chasteen's fast-moving, streamlined translation--the first ever into English--captures all of the sweeping romance and knife-wielding excitement of the original. William Acree's introduction and notes situate Juan Moreira in its literary and historical contexts. Numerous ...

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The Gaucho Juan Moreira: True Crime in Nineteenth-Century Argentina 2014, Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9781624661365

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The Gaucho Juan Moreira: True Crime in Nineteenth-Century Argentina 2014, Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9781624661372

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