Mexican Short Stories / Cuentos mexicanos

Mexican Short Stories / Cuentos mexicanosGreatly influenced by Europe's nineteenth century literary trends, Mexico's writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of Lpez Portillo's Reloj sin dueo and the modernismo saturating Gutirrez Njera's "La maana de San Juan" to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's

widowed mother

the theory of probability

some problems in basic measurement and definition

friend frances

and casual browsers

The White Bead Maiden's Marriage with the Sun

double standards

Chapters cover battements

botanical illutrations of scores of plants — including seed pods

"Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire" examines the relation between heat and the work done by heat in high- and low-pressure steam engines

Here you will find patterns taken from sweaters found in Yorkshire

" — Author Alice Walker