Category: Novels
ON Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. This bridge was on the highroad between Lima and Cuzco and hundreds of persons passed over it every day. It had been woven of osier by the Incas...
ON Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. This bridge was on the highroad between Lima...
3. PART TWO: THE MARQUESA DEANY Spanish schoolboy is required to know today more about Doña María, Marquesa de Montemayor, than Brother Juniper was to discover in years of research. Within a century of her...
4. PART THREE: ESTEBANONE morning twin boys were discovered in the foundlings' basket before the door of the Convent of Santa María Rosa de las Rosas. Names were found for them almost before the arri...
5. PART FOUR: UNCLE PIOIN one of her letters (the XXIXth) the Marquesa de Montemayor tries to describe the impression that Uncle Pio "_our aged Harlequin_" made upon her: "_I have been sitting all mor...
6. PART FIVE: PERHAPS AN INTENTIONA NEW bridge of stone has been built in the place of the old, but the event has not been forgotten. It has passed into proverbial expressions. "I may see you Tuesday," says a Li...