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Doña Bárbara / Rómulo Gallegos ; edited by Lowell Dunham ... ; cover and end-paper map by Edward Caswell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5911
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallegos, Rómulo, 1884-1969, author.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Matriarchy--Venezuela--Fiction.
- Matriarchy.
- Landowners--Venezuela--Fiction.
- Landowners.
- Upper class families--Venezuela--Fiction.
- Upper class families.
- Families--Venezuela--Fiction.
- Families.
- Women--Psychology--Fiction.
- Women.
- Farmers--Venezuela--Fiction.
- Farmers.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Venezuela--Social conditions--Fiction.
- Venezuela.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Psychology.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Caswell, Edward C. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Caswell, Elizabeth, approximately 1916- (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, [2], 280 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : F.S. Crofts & Co., 1942.
- Summary:
- Well-known Venezuelan novel picturing the dramatic struggle between Santos Lizardo, who fights for his inheritance, and a half-breed Indian woman who acquires her lands through trickery.
- Notes:
- "This edition of Doña Bárbara has been considerably abridged by the omission of the longer descriptive passages and of entire chapters not essential to the main theme."--Foreword.
- Map by Edward C. Caswell on front pastedown and front free endpaper.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy has bookseller's manuscript provenance note in pencil on half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed on half-title leaf in 1942 in red ink by Edward C. Caswell to his daughter Betty (i.e. Elizabeth Caswell, b. ca. 1916) with accompanying sketch of a woman wearing a hat.
- OCLC:
- 3644283
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