by Jorge Isaacs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420519920
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«María» is the romantic novel by Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs, published by Alhambra in paperback (399 pages, in Spanish).
Set in 19th-century Colombia, it tells the love story between María and her cousin Efraín, marked by idealization, illness and death. The novel combines romantic sentiment with descriptions of landscapes and rural customs, and its poetic language made it a classic of Spanish American Romanticism.
Edition edited by Carmen Mora, published in 1990 in the Alhambra literatura collection (no. 11). The novel was originally published in 1867.
Common reading in schools and for those interested in Spanish American Romanticism and 19th-century Colombian literature.
Jorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, María, became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish-language literature.
