num_pages: 432
description: One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona is a tale of true love tested.Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora Moreno. But her desire for Alessandro, a Native American, makes her an outcast and fugitive...
language: English
title: Ramona
titlecomplete: Ramona (Signet Classics)
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Historical, American, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Westerns, Novels
ratings_count: 2233
publisher: Signet