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Isabel Allende
December 21st, 2010 Posted 9:47 pm
International Books similar to Zorro by Isabel Allende?
does anyone know any novels written in another country besides US and Canada that is similar to the novel Zorro written by Isabel Allende. Also the book needs to be translated into english?
preferably similar in theme, character development or something
THANKS 
Every writer on the of subject “Zorro” refers to Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) as the “original” and “best” on the legend of Zorro… he began other ‘masked heroes’ too.
He wrote “The Tales of Zorro” …first called “The Curse of Capistrano” in 1915…
There’s a current edition of “The Tales of Zorro” from ’07, 311 pages…
…in English because McCulley was a US citizen.
You can find “The Curse of Capistrano” on Amazon as well, an ’08 edition, 240 pages. By McCulley.
For more work (short stories) on Zorro that includes stories by Isabelle Allende and more (many more) that gets high marks by readers at Amazon…
…Look at this one… “Tales of Zorro” (there is no “The…” there), ’08 edition, 288 pages…
…by Jan Adkins, Isabelle Allende, Robin Wayne Bailey, Mike Bullock, Max Collins, Greg Cox, A.C. Crispin, Peter David, Loren D. Estelman , Ed Gorman and more…
If you haven’t read the following yet, they’re also good English translations by overseas authors and they’re classics too:
“The Three Musketeers” by Alexander Dumas
and
“Les Miserable”
plus
“The Hunchback of Norte Dame” both by Victor Hugo
…and more…
Isabel Allende: Tales of passion
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Grandes Compasitores 2 Cd’s [100anosdemusica] … |
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Dreams and Stories – The Spirit in Everyday Life CASSETTE – A Benefit for the Institute of Noetic Sciences… |
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Of Love and Shadows [Soundtrack] $89.00 Is the story of the awakening of love that knows no boundaries… and of courage that knows no fear. Soundtrack to the movie starring Antonio Banderas and Jennifer Connelly, the film is based on the Isabel Allende novel. Music composed and conducted by Jose Nieto, one of Spain’s finest contemporary composers…. |
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The House of the Spirits [VHS] $9.98 A hauntingly romatic epic spanning three generations of the Trueba family starring Meryl Streep, Glen Close, Jeremy Irons, Antonio Bandero, Winona Ryder and Vanessa Redgrave… |
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House of the Spirits [VHS] $9.98 The House of the Spirits is a generational tale of life among the ruling class in a South American country, as adapted from the Isabel Allende novel, but the political realities coexist very uneasily with the magical realism in this Bille August film. The star power alone (Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Armin Mueller-Stahl) should ha… |
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Of Love & Shadows [VHS] $5.85 … |
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Isabel Allende … |
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Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel (P.S.) $12.99 Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÉ—known as TÉtÉ—is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, TÉtÉ finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain ar… |
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The House of the Spirits: A Novel $9.10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherwor… |
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The House Of Spirits (La Casa De Los Espiritus) Collectors Edition [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] $7.20 SYNOPSIS: South America before the second world war. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Esteban works hard and eventually gets money to buy a hacienda and become a local patriarch. He becomes very conservative and is feared by his workers. When Blanca grows up, she falls in love with a young revolutionary, Pedro, who urges the workers to fight for socialism. It is unav… |