Ramona

by Helen Hunt Jackson, Michael Dorris (Introduction), Valerie Sherer Mathes (Afterword)

Overview

As one of the great ethical novels of the 19th century, "Ramona" was both a political and literary success and continues to move modern readers with its sympathetic characters and its depiction of the Native American's struggle in the early West. Contains an Introduction by acclaimed author Michael Dorris and a new Afterword. (July)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451528421
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Signet Classics
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	366,823
Product dimensions:	4.12(w) x 6.69(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	870L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Denise Chávez, a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, is the author of Loving Pedro Infante, Face of an Angel, and The Last of the Menu Girls. She lives in New Mexico.

Read an Excerpt

I. It was sheep-shearing time in Southern California; but sheep-shearing was late at the Señora Moreno’s. The Fates had seemed to combine to put it off. In the first place, Felipe Moreno had been ill. He was the Señora’s eldest son, and since his father’s death had been at the head of his mother’s house. Without him, nothing could be done on the ranch, the Señora thought. It had been always, “Ask Señor Felipe,” “Go to Señor Felipe,” “Señor Felipe will attend to it,” ever since Felipe had had the dawning of a beard on his handsome face.
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Editorial Reviews

Ramona is a second Uncle Tom’s Cabin. . . . The arrogant mestiza whose attachment to her Indian lover endures through persecution and death . . . and the desperate love they share until the vanquishing blond race casts them out like hunted animals . . . all this is alive in these pages.”
–José Martí

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