Isabel Allende
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| Title | : | Zorro |
| Author | : | Isabel Allende |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Large Print |
| Pages | : | Pages: 677 pages |
| Published | : | May 3rd 2005 by HarperLargePrint |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Romance. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Novels |
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A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Spain, a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule. He soon joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. Between the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born, and the legend begins. After many adventures -- duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates at sea, and impossible rescues -- Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves.Itemize Books Toward Zorro
| Original Title: | El Zorro |
| ISBN: | 006078721X (ISBN13: 9780060787219) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Bernardo, Zorro, Alejandro de la Vega, Lolita Pulido, Lechuza Blanca, Toypurnia, Jean Lafitte |
| Setting: | California(United States) Barcelona, Catalonia(Spain) |
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I feel rather underwhelmed by this book, my first by Allende. This is a story about the making of Zorro, and it has all the incidents that we might expect in such an account. Shoshone shaman grandmother who concocts magic potions; mute Indian sidekick/ milk-brother; Barcelona fencing master who is also the head of a secret society; lovely but fickle love interest; evil, sneering antagonist; fat Sergeant Garcia; gypsies; and even pirates. Everything that should make this a fun, swashbuckling rideAllende's version of the Zorro story is an old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure on one hand, a post-colonial story of colonial times on the other. Her hero, born Diego de la Vega to a Mestiza mother and Spanish father in L.A., takes on the attributes of off all cultures he comes in contact with (Native American healing and dreaming, French reason, Gypsy circus tricks, etc.) in a time when most people never stray from the village they're born in. So he's quite literally the best of all worlds.
ZORROIsabel AllendeZorro is a captivating retelling of the Zorro legend by an author so adept at mixing history and reality this becomes a sensational look at a swashbuckling hero.Diego de la Vega grows up in California, raised beside his wet nurses son, Bernardo. Despite the class differences they become milk brothers for life. Diegos sense of justice and identification with the underdog has its roots in their friendship and his outrage over the exploited natives. Sent to Spain to go to school
As with all the books I've read by Allende, I found this one really nicely written. There is a flow to her writing which sometimes made the pages of the book fly by. I found myself speeding through certain sections, and not realizing that I'd just read twenty pages in twenty minutes until my lunch break was finished. It's a lovely feeling.Less lovely was the feeling that at some points of this 600+ narrative, I felt like very little was happening. It was very rare during the story that I was
Great backstory for the adult Zorro, aka Don Diego de la Vega, whose adventures were spun out in serial form by McCulley from the 20's to the 40's. Allende renders a compelling saga at the turn of the 18th century with vivid characters from many walks of life and cultures. We get a believable vision of how an upbringing could instill the necessary balance of compassion, crafty duality, and gueriilla warfare skills that imbue the intrepid hero of the downtrodden. She takes you on a fun ride in
I fell in love with Isabella Allende's writing when I read Daughter of Fortune. I was not disappointed with Zorro. Allende is a dynamic diva of story telling.Allende's Zorro begins in California with how his Spanish father met his Indian mother. His evolution into Zorro, and the beginning of his legendary fight for injustices takes him to Spain, to Jean Lafitte's legendary Barataria and back to California.I usually prefer to read books with female protagonists but since Allende wrote Zorro, I
"Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death." I found the early part of this book decidedly more fascinating than the last half or so. As I recall, the book sort of lost its way as it progressed, whereas the beginning was riveting. But as a whole it's another excellent piece of Isabel Allende's fiction. It was particularly interesting to me to read about early California
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