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Ramona

By Helen Hunt Jackson
Introduction by Denise Chávez

By Helen Hunt Jackson
Introduction by Denise Chávez

By Helen Hunt Jackson
Introduction by Denise Chávez

By Helen Hunt Jackson
Introduction by Denise Chávez

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $17.00

Apr 12, 2005 | ISBN 9780812973518

Ebook $2.99

Jul 21, 2010 | ISBN 9780307758484

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    About Ramona

    “If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, “I would be thankful the rest of my life.” Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller.

    A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair’s adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California.

    Set from the first American edition of 1884, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes José Martí’s 1888 prologue (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen).

    About Ramona

    “If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, “I would be thankful the rest of my life.” Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller.

    A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair’s adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California.

    Set from the first American edition of 1884, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes José Martí’s 1888 prologue (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen).

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    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Romance

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Apr 12, 2005 | 416 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812973518

    Category: Fiction Classics | Romance

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Jul 21, 2010 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9780307758484

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    Praise

    “Ramona is a second Uncle Tom’s Cabin. . . . The arrogant mestiza whose attachment to her Indian lover endures through persecution and death . . . and the desperate love they share until the vanquishing blond race casts them out like hunted animals . . . all this is alive in these pages.”
    –José Martí

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