DDC/MDS
| 863.5 |
Publication
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1942.
Original publication date
1831
Description
David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.
Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Physical description
290 p.; 22 cm
Local notes
1st English-language appearance of a work "generally considered the first novel written and published in Latin America," albeit abridged to trim down didactic portions.