Alarcon's "The Nun" has been praised as a stark depiction of decadence and decline, Captain Poison as a humorous reversal of The Taming of the Shrew, "Moors and Christians" as an astute commentary on greed, and "The Tall Woman" as an absorbing tale of the fantastic and supernatural. Together the four works show that Alarcon's imagination in short prose fiction thrived at the middle of his writing career and at the end of it.
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Alarcon's "The Nun" has been praised as a stark depiction of decadence and decline, Captain Poison as a humorous reversal of The Taming of the Shrew, "Moors and Christians" as an astute commentary on greed, and "The Tall Woman" as an absorbing tale of the fantastic and supernatural. Together the four works show that Alarcon's imagination in short prose fiction thrived at the middle of his writing career and at the end of it.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 180pp, bibliography, notes, bw ill. Or cloth in jacket. Short tear to top front corner of jacket. English translation of 3 short stories and a short novel by Spanish revolutionary Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Includes The Nun; Moors and Christians; The Tall Woman and Captain Poison.
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NF in Fine jacket. Wheat cloth in white, yellow and orange jacket with author caricature to front 8vo. 180pp. Bibliography, endotes. NF/Fine. Book has spine slant with no effect on tight, strong binding. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Neither ex-lib nor remainder. Multiple copies available, please inquire.
