Purple Land

Author : W.H. Hudson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299182231
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purple Land written by W.H. Hudson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-09-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time. The Purple Land is the exuberant, often wryly comic, first-person account of a young Englishman’s imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in nineteenth-century Uruguay. Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride’s father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune and is eventually imprisoned and persecuted by the vengeful father. His narrative closes as he sets off on still another impetuous quest. This facsimile of the 1904 Three Sirens Press edition includes striking woodcuts by Keith Henderson illustrating the characters in the novel and the fauna of Uruguay. Ilan Stavans’s introduction offers an opportunity to revisit The Purple Land as a "road novel" in which an outsider offers reflections on nationality and diasporic identity.

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by William Henry Hudson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three chapters in the story of my life-three periods distinct and well defined yet consecutive-beginning when I had not completed twenty-five years and finishing before thirty will probably prove the most eventful of all.

Author : W. H. Hudson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by W. H. Hudson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purple Land is a novel that sets in 19th-century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, it was reissued in 1904 with the full title The Purple Land, Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator explains the title, "I will call my book The Purple Land. For what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children?"

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473361885
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by William Henry Hudson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1885, "The Purple Land" is a novel by Argentinian naturalist and author William Henry Hudson. It tells the story of a young Englishman called Richard Lamb who elopes with a teenage Argentinian girl to Uruguay. Once there, Lamb sets off to find work, but instead finds himself at the centre of an epic adventure. This exciting and beautifully-written page-turner is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Hudson's wonderful work, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922) was an Argentinian naturalist, author, and ornithologist. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and is best known for his novel "Green Mansions" (1904). Other notable works include "A Crystal Age" (1887) and "Far Away and Long Ago" (1918), which has since been adapted into a film. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by William Henry Hudson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Lamb travels through "Banda Oriental" (Uruguay) to find himself a perfect job and a perfect girl while his wife back home is totally oblivious to his colourful and often comic misadventures. Richard finds himself in various tricky spots, amongst natives and eventually comes to an important realisation—English imperialism is bad for this place!Jorge Luis Borges dedicated an essay to The Purple Land in his book Other Inquisitions. He compared Hudson's novel to the Odyssey and described it as perhaps the "best work of gaucho literature." Ernest Hemingway also famously referred to Hudson's book in his novel The Sun Also Rises. Excerpt: "Three chapters in the story of my life—three periods, distinct and well defined, yet consecutive—beginning when I had not completed twenty-five years and finishing before thirty, will probably prove the most eventful of all. To the very end they will come back oftenest to memory and seem more vivid than all the other years of existence—the four-and-twenty I had already lived, and the, say, forty or forty-five—I hope it may be fifty or even sixty—which are to follow. For what soul in this wonderful, various world would wish to depart before ninety! The dark as well as the light, its sweet and its bitter, make me love it..."

Author : W. H. Hudson
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 : 2021051811
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by W. H. Hudson and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purple Land is a novel set in 19th-century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, it was reissued in 1904 with the full title The Purple Land, Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator explains the title, "I will call my book The Purple Land. For what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children?"

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492148821
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land written by W. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purple Land is a novel set in 19th century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, it was reissued in 1904 with the full title The Purple Land, Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by Himself. Towards the end of the novel, the narrator explains the title, "I will call my book The Purple Land. For what more suitable name can one find for a country so stained with the blood of her children?"

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The purple land written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. H. Hudson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387062869
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purple Land; Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as told by Himself written by W. H. Hudson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.