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The Purple Land is a novel set in 19th century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, it was reissued in 1904 with the full title The Purple Land, Being One Richard... Read Full Overview

First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far... Read Full Overview

LA TIERRA PURPUREA se public por primera vez en el a o 1885. Al referirse Hudson a esta bell sima novela, en su prefacio a la edici n de 1904, dice: "Algunas noticias acerca del libro aparecieron en la prensa, una o dos de las m s serias revistas literarias, critic ndolo -no... Read Full Overview

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Excerpt: ...and more powerful song than the English bird. On the other side of the hedge was the potrero, or paddock, where a milch-cow with two or three horses were kept. The manservant, whose name was Nepomucino, presided over orchard and paddock, also to some extent over the... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ...ith the soles nearly worn off my boots, I sat down on a bench beside the sea, or river--for some call it one thing, some the other, and the muddied hue and freshness of the water, and the uncertain words of geographers, leave one in doubt as to whether Montevideo... Read Full Overview

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Three chapters in the story of my life-three periods distinct and well defined yet consecutive-beginning when I had not completed twenty-five years and finishing before thirty will probably prove the most eventful of all.

Reproduction of the original: The Purple Land by William Henry Hudson