About this title: A richly detailed, bittersweet story of two doomed lovers, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction--set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18th-century Columbia.
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140245592ISBN:0140245596
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Paperback Edition-Average Wear-Few Markings-Written in Spanish. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Reader copy. Ex-Public Library. Coffee spot on right page edges. Heavy cover wear. Usual library stickers and stamps. Save a tree-buy used.. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Debolsillo
Date Published: 2/2/2002
ISBN-13:9789871138043ISBN:9871138040
Description: Very Good. 9871138040 May show signs of shelf wear. Choose EXPEDITED shipping, receive in 2-5 business days. Please email with questions. read more
Description: 9580427402. ILLUSTRATOR: None PUBLISHER: Bogota, Editorial Norma, S ZA (1994) Primera Edicion en castellano, 1st printing. DESCRIPTION: Book is an 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" hard cover with gray boards, 198 pages CONDITION: Book is very good, owner gift inscription and embossment on the front end page, foxing at the page tops DUST JACKET: Dust jacket is very good, lightly soiled ABOUT THIS BOOK: A new short novel, set against the lush tropical backdrop of colonial eighteenth-century Colombia, narrates the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140245592ISBN:0140245596
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana: Editora Taller, 1994
Description: Paperback (as issued). First printing of this edition, one of the several simultaneous editions. As new in printed dark blue self-wraps. read more
Description: First Spanish edition. Top and bottom of spine slightly bumped, else fine in blue pictorial boards. Not issued with dustwrapper. The most attractive of the several issues of this title. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plaza & Janes S.A., Spain
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9788401242373ISBN:8401242371
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Sudamericana
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9789500726054ISBN:950072605X
Description: New. In new dust jacket. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 168 p. Editorial Sudamericana Narrativas/Antologia. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial Wrappers
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140245592ISBN:0140245596
Description: Fine. First printing of the First American edition, preceding all other American editions (paperback original), 198pp. Spanish text. Light wear to covers, else book in fine condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MEXICO: DIANA (1994) PRIMERA EDICION, ABRIL DE 1994
Date Published: 1994
Description: MEXICO DIANA (1994) PRIMERA EDICION, ABRIL DE 1994, 1994 NF HARDCOVER pictorial boards w/o dustjacket, as issued First Mexican edition. read more
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Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Sudamericana
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9789500726054ISBN:950072605X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean inside out, tight binding, very good cover. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 168 p. Editorial Sudamericana Narrativas/Antologia. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I honestly cannot put into words what it is I love about Marquez - perhaps that's why I read books, rather than write them! But, for the sake of the review, I will have to try... His beautifully written prose, colourful descriptions and very distinct form of magic realism honestly do transport the reader to another world. When working through a GGM novel, I have to confess that I get so caught up in the pure joy of reading that I forget to think about the metaphors and the messages behind the words. Once the reading's done though - the book lingers on for days in my head...
'Of Love and Other Demons' is another excellent piece of fiction from the great Marquez. It's an extremely sad tale of love and obsession that is made all the more poignant by the author's introductory note, explaining that he was inspired by a real-life experience. In a relatively short novel, Marquez deals with many different subjects, including religious hysteria and the demonising of innocence and pure love by the corrupt Catholic church. The characters are all wonderfully well drawn and the tragic young heroine commands the readers' sympathy."
"I feel like there is nothing you can say about GGM that hasn't already been said or that if you are contemplating reading this book you don't already know. He is the king of Magical Realism and romantic metaphors comparing love to disease, demonic possession, etc. He is a master of lust, longing, and love. The drama is overblown but never feels that way. He is just so excellent at using all of the elements of his style to perfectly balance his stories by turning them into what seem to be epic myths or fairy tales of South America."
"I liked Marquez' style of writing but I hated how the story turned out and it turned out like another of his books My Melancholy Whores to have a huge theme of pedophilia. This disgusted me and I can't back any author that has a theme of pedophilia but calls it 'love' and doesn't present itself as being a bad thing.
I am going to give Marquez one last try with the 100 Years of Solitude book and if that has so much of a hint of pedophilia, I will officially hate him and wonder why he got so famous.
It's NOT love when the girl is 12 and the man is 36, FFS. I'm so angry now I've read more reviews."
"This book focuses at great length on the concept of magical realism; i.e., the idea that magic can be incorporated into everyday life in literature without acknowledgement or even surprise that it is there. However, the book did not do a good enough job making the material very satisfying to read. Although the details were all very interesting, the grueling and often gruesome tortures performed on Sierva Maria kind of turned me off as a reader. I also did not appreciate how none of the characters were likeable and sympathetic. I give Marquez credit for picking an unusual topic (rabid dogs bites) and tying it into the theme of magical realism and the dangers of love, but I did not find the book enjoyable to read."
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