Collected Fictions
Contributors: Andrew Hurley (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: February 12, 1999
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780141182100
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.
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