Collected Fictions
Contributors: Andrew Hurley (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780140286809
Copyright date: 1998
First sentence: In 1517, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.