Collected Stories

Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Rabassa, Gregory; Bernstein, J.S

ISBN 10: 0060913061 / ISBN 13: 9780060913069

Published by Harper & Row, 1984

About this Item

26 stories by Marquez in chronological order as to First publication: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Erà ndira and Her Heartless Grandmother.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Stories
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060913061
• ISBN 13: 9780060913069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Great Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.

About the Author

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.