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By José Martí
Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría
Edited by Esther Allen
Translated by Esther Allen

By José Martí
Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría
Edited by Esther Allen
Translated by Esther Allen

By José Martí
Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría
Edited by Esther Allen
Translated by Esther Allen

By José Martí
Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría
Edited by Esther Allen
Translated by Esther Allen

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    About Selected Writings

    José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí’s were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life.

    Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, “War Diaries”, never before translated into English.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Selected Writings

    José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí’s were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life.

    Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, “War Diaries”, never before translated into English.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Product Details

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Classic Nonfiction | World History | Essays & Literary Collections

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 30, 2002 | 496 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142437049

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Classic Nonfiction | World History | Essays & Literary Collections

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 30, 2002 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9781101153673

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    Praise

    “Martí is the most remarkable figure in the history of Cuba….No English-language collection is as comprehensive as this handsome new addition to the Penguin Classics.”—Tom Miller, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    Translated by Esther Allen with an Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría

    José Martí: An Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría
    Chronology
    Suggestions for Further Reading

    Earliest Writings
    Abdala
    Letter to His Mother from Prison
    Political Prison in Cuba

    1871-1881
    Notebooks 1-3
    Early Journalism:
    The Poor Neighborhoods of Mexico City
    Sarah Bernhardt
    Impressions of America (by a very fresh Spaniard)

    1882-1890
    Poetry:
    Prologue to Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde’s Poem of Niagara

    Ismaelillo:
    Waking Dream/Sueño despierto
    Fragrant Arms/Brazos fragantes
    My Kinglet/Mi reyecillo
    Son of My Soul/Hijo del alma

    Free Verses/Versos libres:
    My Verses
    The Swiss Father/El padre suizo
    Famous Island/Isla famosa
    Love in the City/Amor de ciudad grande
    I Hate the Sea/Odio el mar
    Winged Cup/Copa con alas

    Notebooks 4-15:
    Undated Fragment
    A Passion

    from The Golden Age:
    Pin the Tail on the Donkey: A New Game and Some Old Ones

    Letters from New York:
    Coney Island
    The Trial of Guiteau
    Prizefight
    Emerson
    Tribute to Karl Marx, Who Has Died
    from La América: The Brooklyn Bridge; The Glossograph; Indigenous Art; Mexico, the United States, and Protectionism; Graduation Day
    The Indians in the United States
    The World’s Biggest Explosion
    Impressionist Painters
    A Great Confederate Celebration
    The Cutting Case
    The Poet Walt Whitman
    Class War in Chicago: A Terrible Drama
    A Walking Marathon
    New York Under Snow
    Blaine’s Night
    A Chinese Funeral
    Inauguration Day

    Political Correspondecne:
    Letter to Emilio Núñez
    Letter to General Máximo Gómez
    A Vindication of Cuba

    1891-1894
    Poetry:
    Simple Verses/Versos sencillos:
    Prologue
    I (I am an honest man/Yo soy un hombre sincero)
    III (I hate the masks and vices/Odio la máscara y vicio)
    XXVIII (Past the manor with the tomb/Por la tumba del cortijo)
    XXX (Blood-hued lightning cleaves/El rayo surca, sangriento)
    XXXVI (Yes, I know: flesh/Ya sé: de carne se puede)
    XLV (I dream of marble cloisters/Sueño con claustros de mármol)

    Notebooks 18-20

    Letters from New York:
    Our America
    The Lynching of the Italians
    The Monetary Conference of the American Republics
    A Town Sets a Black Man on Fire

    from Patria:
    The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico
    My Race
    To Cuba!
    The Truth About the United States

    1895
    Politics:
    The Montecristi Manifesto

    Final Correspondence:
    Letter to His Mother
    Letter to Manuel Mercado

    War Diaries:
    Part I: From Montecristi to Cap-Haïtien
    Part II: From Cap-Haïtien to Dos Ríos

    Afterword by Esther Allen
    Notes
    Index

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