UID:
almafu_9961024727202883
Format:
1 online resource (270 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-993898-9
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0-19-535410-9
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1-4294-0373-X
Series Statement:
Library of Latin America
Content:
Jose Tomas de Cuellar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published. The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime dedicated to order and progress.Christmas Eve describes a volatile middle class in which people pursue pleasure and entertainment without regard to morality.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; About Editor; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Introduction; The Magic Lantern; Prologue; Having A Ball; I Preparations for the Ball; II How Couples Were Recruited and Guests Invited; III About the Machuca Sisters and Others Like Them; IV In Which, Among Other Things, the Girls Who Frequent the Pane Baths Prepare Themselves for the Colonel's Ball; V Concerning What Happened to the Virtue of a Lady Invited to Saldaña's Ball; VI How the Appearances Maintained by These Upstarts Tend to Compromise Any Serious Result; VII The Ball Begins
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VIII How the Heat from Candles, Combined with a Santa Barbara Cognac and Other Evils, Can Create Pandemonium at a BallIX Conclusion; Christmas Eve; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII
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English
Additional Edition:
The Magic Lantern : Having a Ball and Christmas Eve
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-511503-1
Language:
English
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