These seventeen Stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles -- from worldly sophistication to outright savagery.
All are well-known names in Spanish-American literature -- Rub n Dar o, Jos Mart , Amado Nervo, R mulo Gallegos, and Ricardo Palma -- some of whom are otherwise distinguished as novelists,.
Ranging in publication dates from 1867 to 1922, each story is by a different writer from a different country.
These seventeen Stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles -- from worldly sophistication to outright savagery