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English
Modern Library Inc
12 April 2005
This 1884 bestseller about the Mission Indians and Mexicans of California is a classic romantic novel with great historical relevance.

""If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro,"" wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, ""I would be thankful the rest of my life."" Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller.

A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair's adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California.

Set from the first American edition of 1884, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Jose Marti's 1888 prologue (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen).
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Imprint:   Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 134mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   341g
ISBN:   9780812973518
ISBN 10:   0812973518
Series:   Modern Library Classics
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive

Denise Chavez, a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, is the author of Loving Pedro Infante, Face of an Angel, and The Last of the Menu Girls. She lives in New Mexico.

Reviews for Ramona

<i>Ramona</i> is a second <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i><b>. . . . </b>The arrogant mestiza whose attachment to her Indian lover endures through persecution and death <b>. . . </b>and the desperate love they share until the vanquishing blond race casts them out like hunted animals . . . all this is alive in these pages. -Jose Marti<i>


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