Peruvian Traditions

Name: Peruvian Traditions
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ISBN: 9780195159097

ISBN-10: 0195159098

ISBN-13: 9780195159097

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ricardo Palma, Christopher Conway, Helen Lane, Helen Lane, Chris Conway

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In his lifetime, the Peruvian Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical journals and records. His historical miscellanies, which he called "traditions", are witty anecdotes about conquerors, viceroys, corrupt and lovelorn friars, tragic loves and notorious characters.

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.43" wide x 5.55" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.858

Christopher Conway is Associate Professor of Spanish, The University of Texas at Arlington.



Series editor's general introduction


Translator's note


Chronology of Ricardo Palma


Introduction


First series


Palla-Huarcuna


The Christ in agony


Second series


The knights of the cape


The magistrate's ears


A heretical viceroy and a rascally bell ringer


Drink, Father, it will keep you alive!


The countess who was summoned


A mother's love


A viceroy and an archbishop


The Corregidor of Tinta


Third series


The Inca's Achirana


A letter sings


An adventure of the poet-viceroy


Everyone the master in his own house


The Latin of a young lady of Lima


Santiago the flier


Fourth series


Three historical questions concerning Pizarro


The scapegoat


Friars' work!


Saint Thomas's sandal


The black mass


Bolivar's justice


Fifth series


Don Alonso the Brawny


Margarita's wedding dress


Abascal's clever trick


Sixth series


The demon of the Andes


The judge's three reasons


The witches of Ica


The royalist smells of death to me


Seventh series


Friar Gomez's scorpion


Conterac's bugler


The protectress and the liberatrix


The king of the Camanejos


Eighth series


Friar Martin's mice


Two excommunications


The major's calf


Ninth series


The liberator's three etceteras


Tenth series


The Incas who played chess


Between Garibaldi ... and me


Consolacion



Listing of the Peruvian traditions by historical period


Bibliography