About this title: Octavio Paz's biography of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), considered the greatest lyric poet of Mexico's Golden Age, is also about the intellectual, political, and religious climate of 17th-century Mexico, and about the duty of the poet to rebel against the restrictions of orthodoxy. Paz has said, "Sor Juana is a mirror of me, a consciousness, ...
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Description: Good. 067482105X Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Paperback Edition-Average Wear-Some Underlining & Margin Notes. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 564 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 1988-09-15
ISBN-13:9780674821057ISBN:067482105X
Description: Very Good. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION: FIRST PRINTING: Published by Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press. Mylar protected D/J is diagonally price-clipped, otherwise this book is in LIKE NEW condition. Casebound (Red Cloth boards, Gold lettering). Binding tight. Pages crisp, clean and unmarked. Professionally and securely packaged, with Tracking Number. read more
Edition: 7th printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 547 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean text. Gift inscription/half-title page, otherwise tight & clean. Appears unread. Octavio Paz is Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial ... read more
Edition: F First Edition
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674821057ISBN:067482105X
Description: Very Good in J Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall FIRST EDITION. LIght edgewear, spine sl. shaken. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 1988-09-15
ISBN-13:9780674821057ISBN:067482105X
Description: Good. Belknap Press, 1988. Hard cover, 547 pp. First American Edition, with full number line. Very good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing and bumping along edges. Binding tight. Light scratching to top corner of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are crisp, clean and bright with no markings. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Moderate overall rubbing, scratching and fading. NOT price clipped ( ... read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Cloth Boards in Dj
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1988
Description: Illustrated. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Large 8vo. Xii, 547 Pgs. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. This book is Octavio Paz as scholar/poet who gave a course on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in 1971-72 as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1988
Description: 547pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Red cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Fine. The dust jacket is in near fine condition, with a couple of short closed tears in the edges. From the jacket-"Paz gives a masterly portrayal of the life and culture of New Spain and the political and ideological forces at work in that autocratic, male-dominated society, in which the subjugation of women was absolute. " read more
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First US Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover; red cloth; 547 pp.; slight bit of rubbing to the jacket, else a near fine copy in like jacket. Protected in a Brodart cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780674821057ISBN:067482105X
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Belknap Press, 1988. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light fading to DJ spine. Corner and edge wear to DJ. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. A Fine Copy. Scarce. Signed by Octavio Paz Nobel Prize Winner. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 564 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: Paperback. Not Pretty. Some Staining; Minimal Bent Pages; Bent Cover. SKU: 19408926 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780674821064 Not Pretty. Some Staining; Minimal Bent Pages; Bent Cover. SKU: 19408926 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: Paperback. Not Pretty. Some Staining/Highlighting; Small Tear on Front Cover/Spine; Minimal Bent Pages; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 19409527 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780674821064 Not Pretty. Some Staining/Highlighting; Small Tear on Front Cover/Spine; Minimal Bent Pages; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 19409527 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: Paperback. Used. Slight Staining; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 19414071 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780674821064 Used. Slight Staining; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 19414071 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Belknap, Harvard, c. 1988
Description: Later printing. Wraps, 8vo, 547 pp. Corners of wrapper curled, scuff at rear, page edges soiled, finger marks to halftitle page; binding tight and interior otherwise unmarked. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 1990-01-02
ISBN-13:9780674821064ISBN:0674821068
Description: Very Good. 1988 2nd Printing Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA) Belknap Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover surface near mint/mild edge + corner wear; spine strong + uncreased, slightly bowed; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 548 pages + 12 preliminary pgs; 8 full-page illustrations; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; preface; prologue; 6 parts/29 chapters; epilogue; appendix (Sor Juana: Witness for the Prosecution); notes on sources; Spanish literary ... read more
How would it be to have such an intense desire to learn and understand, knowing what good it can bring humanity and religion, and at the same time, feeling guilty for picking up a book to engage it? Doing that for an entire lifetime, no wonder she died with a guilty conscience and a belief that she was the "worst in the world". I'd like to say what a waste--but then I again I tend to believe that if learning wasn't forbidden than she might not have had such temptation to do it. What a horrible paradox! Our perception being the only distinction between a chore and a privilege."
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