Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2009-03-08 Public domain in the USA. 288 Villaverde, Cirilo 1812 1894 Cecilia Valdés o la Loma del Ángel Reading ease score: 61.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Chuck Greif, Víctor Moné and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Cecilia Valdés o la Loma del Ángel" by Cirilo Villaverde is a novel written in the late 19th century. This work is recognized as a significant piece of Cuban literature, exploring the social and political landscape of Cuba during the early 19th century. The story centers around the character of Cecilia, a young woman whose life and experiences reflect the tumultuous realities of her society, marked by issues of race, class, and the legacies of colonialism and slavery. The opening of "Cecilia Valdés" introduces the reader to a tense and emotional scene involving a mysterious gentleman, who arrives in a carriage and meets with a mulata woman named Josefa. Their conversation reveals the plight of a sick young woman who has been deeply affected by a recent traumatic event. The gentleman expresses his concern for the patient and hints at a complex backstory involving the separation of a mother and her child. This emotional set-up establishes the themes of love, loss, and social tensions that will play a crucial role throughout the narrative, suggesting a rich exploration of character and circumstance in the cultural context of 19th-century Cuba. (This is an automatically generated summary.) es Cuba -- Fiction PQ Text 6 Best Loved Spanish Literary Classics Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 1217646 1217647 2024-10-12T08:31:54.126016 2023-09-12T11:21:28.177319 text/html text/html 1208094 2021-01-04T20:41:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 460459 2021-01-04T20:41:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 554744 2024-10-12T08:32:11.882412 application/epub+zip 577904 2024-10-12T08:31:58.656978 application/epub+zip 564805 2024-10-12T08:31:56.570984 application/epub+zip 988389 2024-10-12T08:32:21.532397 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 953192 2024-10-12T08:32:10.668450 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 912670 2022-09-13T08:04:51.635862 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1152048 1151949 2024-10-12T08:31:50.524036 2023-09-12T11:21:25.216267 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1126034 2021-01-04T20:41:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 449489 2021-01-04T20:41:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20031 2024-10-12T08:32:21.674489 application/rdf+xml 15633 2024-10-12T08:31:57.468984 image/jpeg 3787 2024-10-12T08:31:56.985975 image/jpeg 540697 2024-10-12T08:31:54.246008 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia es.wikipedia