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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

A Novel

English translation · Translated by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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Captain Ulysses Ferragut, a sailor from Valencia, is the hero of this novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, the author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The opening chapter follows his boyhood with a father who is a notary and loves the Middle Ages, taking the family to hear mass in the old church of San Juan del Hospital. Several chapter titles borrow from the Odyssey, and the story moves from the Aquarium of Naples to Marseilles and Barcelona. Written in Spanish, it is set around the Mediterranean in the First World War. Charlotte Brewster Jordan's translation is dated 1919.

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and politician who also worked as a screenwriter and film director. His fiction is associated with literary realism, and several of his books were adapted into Hollywood films. His titles include "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".

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Pages
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