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The epic tale of an Argentine landowner's family fighting on opposite sides during World War I became a worldwide best-selling novel when first published in 1916. Fanatical nationalism tragically triumphs over common sense and family ties, causing horrific destruction and death... Read Full Overview

Vicente Blasco Ib ez, represent con singular acierto en Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis.Estructurada en torno a la historia de dos familias -los Desnoyers y los Hartrott- que, aunque provenientes parcialmente de un tronco com n, pertenecen cada una a uno de los bandos en... Read Full Overview

The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.

Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family... Read Full Overview

Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis es una novela del escritor Vicente Blasco Iba ez, publicada por primera vez en 1916. Esta novela fue incluida en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en espa ol del siglo XX del peri dico espa ol El Mundo.Se trata de una novela ambientada en... Read Full Overview

The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.

When Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family... Read Full Overview

Novela extraordinaria escrita durante y en medio del conflicto b lico entre Alemania y Francia en la primera guerra mundial que narra las aventuras y desventuras de una familia argentina dividida por sus descendencias alemanas y francesas. Los Desnoyers y los Von Hartrott, se... Read Full Overview

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) is a novel by Vicente Blasco Ib ez. Published at the height of his career as a popular Spanish author, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was adapted into a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and later into... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Un espa ol emigrado a Argentina, sus hijas y sus yernos, un franc s y un alem n, regresan a Europa poco antes de que estalle la Primera Guerra Mundial. All ver n c mo se destruyen sus naciones y su familia, enfrentada por la guerra. Sobre este argumento, Vicente Blasco Ib ez... Read Full Overview

En julio de 1914 not los primeros indicios de la pr xima guerra europea, viniendo de Buenos Aires a las costas de Francia en el vapor alem n K nig Friedrich August. Era el mismo buque que figura en los primeros cap tulos de esta obra. No quise cambiar ni desfigurar su nombre... Read Full Overview