About this title: "An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, truly incomparable." -- New Yorker This lyric portrait of life-- and the little donkey, Platero-- in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramo n Jime nez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. P.O. label on first page. Otherwise text is clean, tight, unmarked, appears unread. Few spots on page edges. Covers very lightly worn, toned. Uncreased spine. Ships first class. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 5th printing. Author appr compl tr of orig text + 43 add chapts.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean text, somewhat tanned at edges, no folds. Spine creased. Cover front hinge crease. Ship daily (carefully wrapped + free domestic delivery confirmation). 128 p. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
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
Edition: 7th
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas
Date Published: 1967
Description: Downs, Jo Alys. Good. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with usual library distinctions.....Clipping on the front fly.....The hard cover has light shelf wear with the front board cracked........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by...... read more
Description: Fair. B0007DLAP4 Acceptable reading copy. Cover is worn. Some markings, but text is clean. No dust jacket. USPS tracking number provided for U.S. orders. read more
"This is one of the most beautifully written and moving books I have ever read, and is definitely in my top-ten favorite books of all time list. The first time I picked it up I when was my mother gave it to me as a child. I have read it many times over, and I don't think I will ever tire of it. A series of vignettes about life in a small village in Spain, told by a poet whose most beloved companion is his donkey Platero, it is a meditation on love, life, and death, on poverty and injustice and the perseverance of the human spirit. Although it is written in prose, it reads as though it were poetry, even in the English translations from the Spanish. Highly, highly recommended for readers of all ages."
"I wasn't able to appreciate the full body of this work; the edition I borrowed included only excepts. Jimenez's lovable narrator, along with his trusted companion, Platero, can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike. In the preface Jimenez stressed that he wasn't writing with an audience in mind; it just happened that Platero y yo was regarded as children's literature. Though children are capable of holding a high standard of reading as their adult counterparts. Para mi gusto!"
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