A CULT MASTERPIECE--THE ADVENTURE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED JOHN HUSTON'S CLASSIC FILM, BY THE ELUSIVE AUTHOR WHO WAS A MODEL FOR THE HERO OF ROBERTO BOLANO'S "2666
"Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born Otto Feige in Schlewsig-Holstein and that he escaped a d[...]
A collection of stories features tales of Mexican ranch life, including the title story, "The Cattle Drive," "When the Priest is Not at Home," and "Macario"[...]
Andres Ugalde, a Mexican Indian peasant, acquires a new master when he is lost in a card game, and gains a new perspective on the repressive system under which he lives[...]
Celso, a young Indian laborer on a mahogany plantation, is such a good worker that he is thrown into jail on false charges to ensure he will stay[...]
With General from the Jungle, the sixth and last of B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, Ivan R Dee completes the republication of this multivolume fictional epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. In General, a masterpiece on guerrilla warfare, Traven tells the story of Juan Mendez, perhaps th[...]
With the first publication in English of Trozas, B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution, are complete. Trozas is the fourth of the six Jungle Novels that describe the conditions of peonage and debt slavery under which Mexican Indians suffered during the r[...]
Der Leidensweg eines Seemanns ohne Paß und Papiere, der von Stadt zu Stadt gehetzt wird und schließlich auf einem morschen 'Totenschiff' mit betrügerisch hochversicherter, aber wertloser Ladung untergeht. Der Roman wurde mit Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf und Elke Sommer erfolgreich verfilmt.[...]