The Purple Land (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: W. H. Hudson
- First Published: 1885
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure romance
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Uruguay and Argentina
- Principal Characters: Richard Lamb, Paquita, Dona Isidora, Lucero, Marcos Marco, Margarita, Don Peralta, Demetria Peralta
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: History, Escapes, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Argentina or Argentineans, South America or South Americans, Battles
- Locales: Argentina, Uruguay
The Story:
Richard Lamb married Paquita without her father’s consent and eloped with her to Montevideo. There they went to see Dona Isidora, a relative of Paquita, and stayed with her for some time. Dona Isidora gave Lamb a letter to the overseer of the Estancia de la Virgen de los Desamparados, a ranch called in English Vagabond’s Rest.
Lamb departed with the letter, and in the Florida department, he began to learn the history of the unhappy land of Uruguay. The Argentines and Brazilians interfered in the country’s politics, and, as if the foreign influences were...
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