Frank, Waldo (editor)

New York. 1930. Farrar & Rinehart. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Green Boards. No Dustjacket. Illustrations by Mordecai Gorelik. Translated from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. 268 pages. hardcover. Cover: Mordecai Gorelik. keywords: Literature Translated Argentina Latin America Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A robust, virile picture of the Argentine in all its picaresque and languorous detail. There are ribald love stories, quaint pictures of Buenos Aires, the twanging guitars of happy gauchos, wild fighting in the hills, man-eating tigers in the wilderness, the story of the great Anaconda lifting her coiled body in the jungle. A fascinating panorama. TALES FROM THE ARGENTINE is the first of many books from South America to be published by Farrar & Rinehart under the general editorship of Mr. Frank, who is an authority on things Latin-American. He is a shrewd editor. This fascinating volume is not only emotionally exciting but informative and in his Introduction and notes, Mr. Frank gives us a colorful picture of the Argentine and a background of its history and politics as well as its writing. Includes the stories: LAUCHA'S MARRIAGE by Roberto J. Payro; DEATH OF A GAUCHO by Leopoldo Lugones; HOLIDAY IN BUENOS AIRES by Lucia V. Lopez; THE PRIVATE LIFE OF FACUNDO by Domingo F. Sarmiento; THE DEVIL IN PAGO CHICO by Roberto J. Payrol ROSAURA by Ricardo Güiraldes; THE RETURN OF ANACONDA by Horacio Quiroga. inventory #27555