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Valera: Commander Mendoza
McKenna, Susan. Ed(S): Fedorchek, Robert M.
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Description for Valera: Commander Mendoza
Paperback. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Fedorchek, Robert M. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Cosmopolitan, cultured, and urbane, Valera was fluent in a number of languages and read widely in all of them. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, he wrote novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and literary criticism, in addition to carrying on a voluminous correspondence with several of his fellow Spanish writers and ... Read more
Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Cosmopolitan, cultured, and urbane, Valera was fluent in a number of languages and read widely in all of them. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, he wrote novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and literary criticism, in addition to carrying on a voluminous correspondence with several of his fellow Spanish writers and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856688584
SKU
V9780856688584
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About McKenna, Susan. Ed(S): Fedorchek, Robert M.
Robert Fedorchek is a professor emeritus of modern languages and literatures at Fairfield University (Connecticut). He has published fifteen books of translations of nineteenth-century Spanish literature, including three other novels by Juan Valera. He has also translated numerous fairy tales by Valera, Antonio de Trueba, Cecilia Bohl de Faber, and Concha Castroviejo for Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. ... Read more
Reviews for Valera: Commander Mendoza
Fedorcheks useful notes and Susan McKennas introduction complement well the excellent translation. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.