The Gaucho Juan Moreira: True Crime in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
✍ Scribed by Eduardo Gutierrez
- Book ID
- 111295181
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Series
- Hackett Classics
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781624663413
- ASIN
- B00OR0F9P0
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutierrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble outlaw whose life and name became legendary in the Rio de la Plata during the late 19th century.
John Chasteen's fast-moving, streamlined translation--the first ever into English--captures all of the sweeping romance and knife-wielding excitement of the original. William Acree's introduction and notes situate Juan Moreira in its literary and historical contexts. Numerous illustrations, a map of Moreira's travels, a glossary of terms, and a select bibliography are all included.