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Juan Ramon Jimenez
Platero and I
University of Texas Press 1957
First Authorized American Edition
Price $49.99
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University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, [1957]. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jo Alys Downs (illustrator). [1-2] 3-218 pp. The First Complete English Translation and the Authorized American Edition of the most famous work of the 1956 Nobel Prize Winner. The price, $3.75, appears on the front flap of the dust jacket. No additional printings listed on the copyright page. Piece of newspaper on the paste-down. Minor wear, including small chips and tears to edges of jacket. Protected in archival mylar cover.
If there are in world literature two or three books capable of giving back to the people their childhood soul, Platero and I is among them," commented the noted French journal Figaro recently.
This poignant, delicately perceptive book--an unforgettable portrait of life in and around the remote Spanish town of Moguer, seen through the eyes of the author as he talks to his silver-gray donkey Platero--is unquestionably the most famous work of Juan Ramon Jimenez, giant of twentieth-century Spanish letters and winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize. Time has called it "one of the great classics of modern Spanish Literature," while Figaro states that it ranks next to Don Quixote in the hearts of Spanish-speaking people.
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