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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
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'Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)' is a novel that follows the story of a sea captain named Ulysses from his childhood in Valencia to his youth in Barcelona and his career at sea. His father, Don Esteban Ferragut, lived near the cathedral, where he found inspiration in the Middle Ages. When Ulysses was younger, he would join him at mass but found himself bored and daydreaming of the lush green of the orchard and the steamships in the harbor.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateDec 5, 2019
ISBN4057664571328
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and political activist. Born in Valencia, he studied law at university, graduating in 1888. As a young man, he founded the newspaper El Pueblo and gained a reputation as a militant Republican. After a series of court cases over his controversial publication, he was arrested in 1896 and spent several months in prison. A staunch opponent of the Spanish monarchy, he worked as a proofreader for Filipino nationalist José Rizal’s groundbreaking novel Noli Me Tangere (1887). Blasco Ibáñez’s first novel, The Black Spider (1892), was a pointed critique of the Jesuit order and its influence on Spanish life, but his first major work, Airs and Graces (1894), came two years later. For the next decade, his novels showed the influence of Émile Zola and other leading naturalist writers, whose attention to environment and social conditions produced work that explored the struggles of working-class individuals. His late career, characterized by romance and adventure, proved more successful by far. Blood and Sand (1908), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916), and Mare Nostrum (1918) were all adapted into successful feature length films by such directors as Fred Niblo and Rex Ingram.

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