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The decapitated chicken and other stories / by Horacio Quiroga ; selected & translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; introduction by George D. Schade ; illustrations by Ed Lindlof ; new foreword by Jean Franco.
- Title
- The decapitated chicken and other stories / by Horacio Quiroga ; selected & translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; introduction by George D. Schade ; illustrations by Ed Lindlof ; new foreword by Jean Franco.
- Author
- Quiroga, Horacio, 1878-1937
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004?]
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- Additional Authors
- Peden, Margaret Sayers
- Description
- xxvi, 166 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- From the Publisher: Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.
- Series Statement
- The Americas
- Uniform Title
- Gallina degollada, y otros cuentos. English
- Americas (Madison, Wis.)
- Alternative Title
- Gallina degollada, y otros cuentos.
- Decapitated chicken and stories
- Decapitated chicken
- Subject
- Quiroga, Horacio, 1878-1937 > Translations into English
- Genre/Form
- Translations
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The feather pillow -- Sunstroke -- The pursued -- The decapitated chicken -- Drifting -- A slap in the face -- In the middle of the night -- Juan Darién -- The dead man -- Anaconda -- The incense tree roof -- The son.
- ISBN
- 0299198340 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004041930
- OCLC
- 54459881
- SCSB-11387249
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library