by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633800
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«La horda» is the social novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published in 1998 by Alianza Editorial in paperback (349 pages, in Spanish).
Madrid, early 20th century. Isidro Maltrana, a poor young man with talent, scrapes by with translations and commissions. Thanks to a lady he manages to study, but his attempt to rise clashes with a society that exploits and marginalizes the weak. Blasco Ibáñez, then a Republican deputy, paints a critical portrait of the era.
Written during Blasco Ibáñez's time as a Republican deputy, the novel was originally published in 1905. This edition belongs to Alianza's Biblioteca Blasco Ibáñez collection.
Suitable for readers of classic Spanish fiction and those interested in social narrative set in early 20th-century Madrid.
Novelista y político valenciano, autor de La barraca, Cañas y barro y Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis, gran superventas internacional de su tiempo.
