Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Books In Order

Novels

  1. La Bodega (1905)
  2. The Blood of the Arena (1911)
  3. The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse (1918)
  4. The Cabin (1919)
  5. The Dead Command (1919)
  6. Mare Nostrum (1919)
  7. The Shadow of the Cathedral (1919)
  8. Woman Triumphant (1920)
  9. The Mayflower (1921)
  10. The Torrent (1921)
  11. In The Land Of Art (1923)
  12. Queen Calafia (1924)
  13. The Enemies Of Women (1925)
  14. The Temptress (1927)
  15. Unknown Lands (1929)
  16. The Knight of the Virgin (1930)
  17. Blood and Sand (1958)
  18. Reeds and Mud (1966)
  19. The Intruder (2004)

Collections

  1. The Last Lion (1919)

Non fiction

  1. Alfonso XIII Unmasked (1924)
  2. Novelist’s Tour of the World (1926)

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Books Overview

The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse

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The Dead Command

Vicente Blasco Ib ez 1867 1928 was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. While Sangre y Arena Blood and Sand 1908 and Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse 1916 are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La Barraca 1898 and Canasy Barro are the ones most valued by scholars. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo translated as either The Town or The People in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot Jos Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He travelled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature.

Mare Nostrum

‘What do you want to be?’ Labarta asked his godson. His mother’s supplicating glance seemed desperately to implore the little fellow: ‘Say Archbishop, my king.’ For the good se ora, her son could not make his d but in any other way than in a church career. The notary always used to speak very positively from his own viewpoint, without consulting the interested party. He would be an eminent jurisconsult; thousands of dollars were going to roll toward him as though they were pennies; he was going to figure in university solemnities in a cloak of crimson satin and an academic cap announcing from its multiple sides the tasseled glory of the doctorate. The students in his lecture room would listen to him most respectfully. Who knew what the government of his country might not have in store for him…
! Ulysses interrupted these images of future grandeur: ‘I want to be a captain.’ The poet approved. He felt the unreflective enthusiasm which all pacific and sedentary beings have for the plume and the sword. At the mere sight of a uniform his soul always thrilled with the amorous tenderness of a child’s nurse when she finds herself courted by a soldier. ‘Fine!’ said Labarta. ‘Captain of what…
? Of artillery…
? Of the staff…
?’ A pause. ‘No; captain of a ship.’ Don Esteban looked up at the roof, raising his hands in horror. He well knew who was guilty of this ridiculous idea, the one who had put such absurd longings in his son’s head!

The Shadow of the Cathedral

‘Go in, woman, go in,’ said the aunt; ‘it is your home. You had to come back some time or other.’ And she pushed her till she was through the door. Once inside the sitting room her tears ceased; she looked round with astonishment, no doubt surprised at finding herself there. Her eyes examined everything with a sort of stupefaction, as though marveling that everything should be in the same place as five years before, and with an exactitude that made her doubt if such a long time had really elapsed. Nothing seemed changed in that little world under The Shadow of the Cathedral. She only, who had left it in the bloom of her youth, now returned aged and broken. There was a long silence between the three people. ‘Your room, Sagrario,’ said Gabriel at last gently, ‘is the same as when you left it. Go in and do not come out till I call you. Be calm and do not cry; trust me. You do not know me well, but the aunt will have told you that I am interested in your fate. Your father will soon be coming; hide yourself and be silent. I repeat it again, do not come out till I call you.’

Woman Triumphant

from the: INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION The title of this novel in the original, La maja desnuda, ‘The Nude Maja,’ is also the name of one of the most famous pictures of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya. The word maja has no exact equivalent in English or in any of the modern languages. Literally, it means ‘bedecked,’ ‘showy,’ ‘gaudily attired,’ ‘flashy,’ ‘dazzling,’ etc., and it was applied at the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth to a certain class of gay women of the lower strata of Madrid society notorious for their love of dancing and their fondness for exhibiting themselves conspicuously at bull fights and all popular celebrations. The great ladies of the aristocracy affected the free ways and imitated the picturesque dress of the maja; Goya made this type the central figure of many of his genre paintings, and the dramatist Ramon de la Cruz based most of his sainetes farcical pieces in one act upon the customs and rivalries of these women. The dress invented by the maja, consisting of a short skirt partly covered by a net with berry shaped tassels, white mantilla and high shell comb, is considered all over the world as the national costume of Spanish women. When the novel first appeared in Spain some years ago, a certain part of the Madrid public, unduly evil minded, thought that it had discovered the identity of the real persons whom I had taken as models to draw my characters. This claim provoked a scandalous sensation and gave my book an unwholesome notoriety. It was thought that the protagonists of La maja desnuda were an illustrious Spanish painter of world wide fame, who is my friend, and an aristocratic lady very celebrated at the time but now forgotten. I protested against this unwarranted and fantastic interpretation. Although I draw my characters from life, I do so only in a very fragmentary way like all the great creative novelists whom I admire as masters in the field of fiction, using the materials gathered in my observations to form completely new types which are the direct and legitimate offspring of my own imagination. To use a figure: as a novelist I am a painter, not a photographer. Although I seek my inspiration in reality, I copy it in accordance with my own way of seeing it; I do not reproduce it with the mechanical servility of the photographic camera. It is possible that my imaginary heroes are vaguely reminiscent of beings who actually exist. Subconsciousness is the novelist’s principal instrument, and this subconsciousness frequently mocks us, leading us to mistake for our own creation the things which we have unwittingly observed in Nature. But despite this, it is unfair, as well as risky, for the reader to assign the names of real persons to the characters of fiction, saying, ‘This is So and so.’

The Torrent

Vicente Blasco Ib ez 1867 1928 was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. While Sangre y Arena Blood and Sand 1908 and Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse 1916 are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La Barraca 1898 and Canas y Barro are the ones most valued by scholars. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo translated as either The Town or The People in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot Jos Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He travelled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature.

The Enemies Of Women

1920. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, he also wrote The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. The book begins: The Prince repeated his statement: Man’s greatest wisdom consists in getting along without women. He intended to go on but was interrupted. There was a slight stir of the heavy window curtains. Through their parting was seen below, as in a frame, the intense azure of the Mediterranean. A dull roar reached the dining room. It seemed to come from the side of the house facing the Alps. It was a faint vibration, deadened by the walls, the curtains, and the carpets, distant, like the working of some underground monster; but there rose above the sound of revolving steel and the puffing of steam a clamor of human beings, a sudden burst of shouts and whistling. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Unknown Lands

1930. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, who wrote The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. Contents: On the Highway to Cordoba; Gabriel the Physician; When I am King; Cape and Sword; Senor Martin Alonso; In the Name of God…
Let Go!; The Vow; Land! Land!; Adam and Eve and the Serpent; The Vengeance of the Yellow God; Farewell, Martin Alonso!; The Guest of the Cardinal. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Knight of the Virgin

1930. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, also wrote The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. The book begins: The bell began to swing in the belfry of the new church, and the air of the Virgin Island seemed to awaken with sudden tremors of surprise and fear. For the first time in the history of the world that atmosphere was stirring with vibrations of metal fashioned by the hand of man! Fernando Cuevas thought he could see the tree tops of the neighboring forest come to life and move their green crests in rhythm with the brazen clangor. Monkeys and parrots, sole denizens of the age old wilderness, began leaping and hopping from branch to branch, and then stood still listening in silent curiosity to this new voice, more powerful than any cry which living thing had uttered in that tropical paradise. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Blood and Sand

1919. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, also wrote The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. From the lowest ranks of poverty to unprecedented heights of riches and popular acclaim thus was the career of Juan Gallardo, Spanish bull fighter. In telling his story, Ibanez has achieved a novel even more dramatic and powerful than his legendary Four Horseme*n. From his boyhood Juan longed to be a bull fighter and, as he climbs the ladder step by step, the reader lives with him in the very atmosphere of the arena. No detail of the picture is spared one can see and almost hear the actual battle the crowds the many characters that stream through the pages. And Juan himself, with his vanities, his superstitions, his daring attacks, his wounds and recoveries, emerges as real, vital and colorful as the sport to which he and many others dedicated their lives. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Reeds and Mud

Set in Valencia, a poverty stricken city on the coast of Spain, this novel portrays the struggle of the common man against his environment. Based on the author’s first hand experience in this area, the story centres around three generations of a poor Valencian family circa 1900 who are as divided in their views on how to get along in this hostile world as any three individuals can be. The old grandfather, pampered by the villagers and extremely pig headed, sees fishing, along with a little illegal hunting on the side, as the only means of maintaining one’s dignity. His son, on the other hand, who is blessed with high intelligence, as well as with a powerful physique, looks upon fishing and especially upon illegal hunting as degrading, and sees emancipation only in land cultivation. But land is more easily yearned for than acquired. The grandson, strong, handsome, and brash, looks upon fishing with loathing and upon cultivation as unrewarding labour. This, however leaves him with nothing, causing him to become involved where he can bring pain not only to others, but also to himself.

The Intruder

1930. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, who wrote The Four Horseme*n of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. The Intruder begins: The dawn was just breaking when Dr. Aresti was awakened by a vigorous shake of his shoulder. Opening his eyes he saw his housekeeper Katalina bending over him with her sallow face, wrinkled like a dried apple. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Novelist’s Tour of the World

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. 49 VIII. HiLn tf LAKP. OK FIRS…


. 61 IX, THE RNTH ANTED ISLE ,…

.. 72 X MY FKLLOW TRAVKLLKHS…


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.. 90 XHL TOKYO…



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. 117 XVI. AT THK FOOT OF TUB HOLY MOUNTAIN…
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