[DOC] [TLE] The House of the Spirits Chapter 1 Summary - Shmoop [PAR] The House of the Spirits begins by introducing us to our first major character, 
Clara. Clara is in ... Here she writes, "Barrabs came to us by sea" (1.1). The first
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House ... Thus, Allende says The House of the Spirits started as a. [DOC] [TLE] Theexamtexts - The House of the Spirits [PAR] The origin of this book started from her grandfather's death. ... with the opening 
sentence emphasizing this- Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara ... The 
female chain of protagonists in the novel (Nivea, Clara, Blanca and Alba) has .... 
the 1933 earthquake and its political history reflects that of the author's homeland
. [DOC] [TLE] The Rise of Female Narration in the House of Spirits [PAR] that Alba Trueba from Allende's The House of the Spirits is a poignant ... that 
some women have begun to create as so revolutionary [it's] no wonder many ... 
indeed one of these revolutionary, political writers, for her female narrator, Alba, 
is a ... first sentences of the novel: Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara 
wrote... [DOC] [TLE] The House of the Spirits Study Guide | GradeSaver [PAR] The House of the Spirits (La Casa de los Espritus) marked Isabel Allende's 
novelistic debut and the advent of her status as an internationally best-selling 
author. ... return to his side because of her status as a political exile, Allende 
began writing him what she ... I wrote the first sentence in trance: Barrabas came 
to us by sea. [DOC] [TLE] The House of the Spirits [PAR] First published in 1982 as La Casa de los Espiritus, The House of the Spirits by ... 
that critics first began to recognize Magic Realism as a serious literary technique. 
... for a successful woman writer (much to the pleasure of the Women's Lit crowd). 
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Quotes " Barrabas came to us by sea ... I: it was another woman, who kept her 
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each chapter, but I never felt terribly compelled to start the next chapter. It took a 
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wrote in her delicate calligraphy. ... in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, 
in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in... [DOC] [TLE] The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] When I started reading Isabel Allende's The Japanese Lover, I liked it well ..... 
Was this novel really written by the same woman who thrilled me with "Island ... It 
reads like the writer was handed a catalog of things which must be included. ..... 
This isn't up to the level of her South American novels (e.g. The House of the 
Spirits),... [DOC] [TLE] The House

Question: "Barrabas came to us by sea" is how this female author began "The House of the Spirits"
Answer: Isabel Allende