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Trata sobre la revuelta de la Revolucion Mexicana. La inspiraci n de Mariano se da por que el estaba en las filas de Francisco Villa. Esta novela la escribe en el Paso, Texas. Es una de las novelas m s realistas, dram ticas y esclarecedoras del proceso revolucionario de 1910,... Read Full Overview

The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save... Read Full Overview

Trata sobre la revuelta de la Revolucion Mexicana. La inspiraci n de Mariano se da por que el estaba en las filas de Francisco Villa. Esta novela la escribe en el Paso, Texas. Es una de las novelas m s realistas, dram ticas y esclarecedoras del proceso revolucionario de 1910,... Read Full Overview

Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio D az, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes... Read Full Overview

In this deeply moving picture of the turmoil of the first great revolution of the twentieth century--the Mexican Revolution of 1910--Azuela depicts the anarchy and the idealism, the base human passions and the valor and nobility of the simple folk, and, most striking of all,... Read Full Overview

"The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution" is Mariano Azuela's fictional account of the Mexican Revolution. Originally published as a newspaper serial in 1915, then as a complete novel in 1920, it was first translated into English in 1929 and was a critical and financial... Read Full Overview

Los de abajo (The Underdogs) is Mariano Azuela's unforgettable novel of the Mexican Revolution (1910-17). It is widely regarded as the best Mexican novel about the war and was published during the armed struggle. This Norton Critical Edition is based on a new translation by acclaimed... Read Full Overview

The Underdogs Mariano Azuela Ten years after its publication in a small El Paso paper, The Underdogs achieved worldwide renown as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution. It tells the story of Demetrio Mac as, a modest, peace-loving Indian, who is forced to side with the... Read Full Overview

Renowned as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts a young peasant's recruitment into Pancho Villa's army. Demetrio Mac?as is compelled to defend his home from attacks by the Federales who serve Mexico's hated dictator. Forced into a fugitive... Read Full Overview

Mariano Azuela, the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career early; in 1896 he... Read Full Overview

To save his family, Demetrio Macias, a peace-loving, naive Indian, becomes swept up in the revolution against the tyranny of dictator Porfirio Diaz, as he rises to become a general in the army of Pancho Villa.

First published as a serial in the newspaper El Paso del Norte, in October and November of 1915, then as a book published by the same newspaper, the novel Los de abajo has been translated into all the main languages of the world. Mariano Azuela's masterwork came out one hundred... Read Full Overview