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Don Quixote, the book that the old gringo says he intends to read some time, was written by Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published in 1615. It is the classic story of idealism and of standing up to unbeatable odds.
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce is available in a 1985 paperback, edited by Ernest Jerome Hopkins. Among the most notable pieces referred to in Fuentes’s novel are “A Horseman in the Sky,” about a Union soldier who kills his father, a member of the Confederacy; and Bierce’s most famous work, “An Occurrence at...
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