Buy this book on-line ALLENDE**, ISABEL: : INES OF MY SOUL.**LONDON.4TH ESTATE,2006. ISBN 9780007241163.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges of dw/dj show the most signs of creasing. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's bright,clean,original plain black cloth boards with immaculate,plain red endpapers.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing, along with the two bottom corners minimally bumped/dented also.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2- 321pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters,most with a b/w line illustrated chapter tailpiece, author's note,a bibliography note; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,b/w map and b/w line illustrated frntis and 6pp blanks at rear.
From Isabel Allende,one of the world's greatest storytellers,comes a magisterial work of historical fiction that chronicles the astonishing life of Ines Suarez,a daring Spanish conquistadora who toiled to build the nation of Chile - and whose vital role has too often been forgotten by history.
It is the 16thC,the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas,and Ines,born into a poor family in Spain,makes ends meet as a seamstress.When her restless husband disappears to the New World,Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure.After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru,she learns that her husband has died in battle.Soon, however,she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia,war hero and field marshal to the famed conquistador Francisco Pizarro.
Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed,by becoming the conqueror of Chile.Together,Ines and her lover will wage a bloody,ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans - the fierce local indians,and even the fiercer Mapuche from the south.The horrific struggle will change them forever,pulling each of them toward their separate destinies.
'Ines of My Soul' is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched,it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Ines Suarez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion that Allende's readers have come to love.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,
original plain,black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2- 321pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters,most with a b/w line illustrated chapter tailpiece, author's note,a bibliography note; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,b/w map and b/w line illustrated frntis and 6pp blanks at rear.
From Isabel Allende,one of the world's greatest storytellers,comes a magisterial work of historical fiction that chronicles the astonishing life of Ines Suarez,a daring Spanish conquistadora who toiled to build the nation of Chile - and whose vital role has too often been forgotten by history.
It is the 16thC,the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas,and Ines,born into a poor family in Spain,makes ends meet as a seamstress.When her restless husband disappears to the New World,Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure.After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru,she learns that her husband has died in battle.Soon, however,she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia,war hero and field marshal to the famed conquistador Francisco Pizarro.
Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed,by becoming the conqueror of Chile.Together,Ines and her lover will wage a bloody,ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans - the fierce local indians,and even the fiercer Mapuche from the south.The horrific struggle will change them forever,pulling each of them toward their separate destinies.
'Ines of My Soul' is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched,it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Ines Suarez's life,crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion that Allende's readers have come to love.
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