The Cabin (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Vicente Blasco Ibanez
- First Published: 1898
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: The country near Valencia, Spain
- Principal Characters: Batiste Borrull, The Roseta, Bishop, Pimento
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Nineteenth century, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Farms, farmers, or farming, Hate crimes, Spain or Spanish people, Peasantry or peasants, Arson, Persecution
- Locales: Spain, Greece, ancient
The Story:
Batiste Borrull brought his family to a district near Valencia to take up a small truck farm that had lain idle for more than ten years. None of the Borrulls knew that other farmers in the district had vowed that the owners of the farm should never reap any profit from its rich soil. When Batiste and his family arrived, they knew only that the stares and lack of greeting meant that they were not welcome.
The former tenant of the farm had been a very meek old man named Barret, a farmer who would do anything to keep his land, which meant more to him than did his...
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