An edition of El reino de este mundo (1957)

The kingdom of this world

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An edition of El reino de este mundo (1957)

The kingdom of this world

First edition.
  • 4.3 (3 ratings)
  • 96 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

xx, 136 pages ; 21 cm

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
136

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The kingdom of this world
The kingdom of this world
2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - First edition.
Cover of: El reino de este mundo
El reino de este mundo
2015, BOOKET, Espasa Calpe
paperback
Cover of: El reino de este mundo
El reino de este mundo
2010, Lectorum, L.D. Books
in Spanish - 1. ed.
Cover of: The Kingdom of This World
The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
May 16, 2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The kingdom of this world
The kingdom of this world
1989, Noonday Press
in English and Spanish
Cover of: The kingdom of this world
The kingdom of this world
1975, Penguin
in English
Cover of: El reino de este mundo
El reino de este mundo
1967, Cia. General de Ediciones
in Spanish - 2. ed.
Cover of: The kingdom of this world
The kingdom of this world
1967, Gollancz
in English

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Edition Notes

Translation from the Spanish of: El reino de este mundo.

A translation by Harriet de Onís was published by Farrrar, Straus and Giroux in 1989, and reissued in 2006.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863/.64
Library of Congress
PQ7389.C263 R413 2017, PQ7389.C263R413 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 136 pages
Number of pages
136

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26937327M
ISBN 10
0374537380
ISBN 13
9780374537388
LCCN
2017001320
OCLC/WorldCat
984973292

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL580014W

Work Description

A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.

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