The Underdogs

Mariano Azuela

Original title: Los de abajo

first published 1927 Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1991 247 pages

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"The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macías, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of political idealism, an au...

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This book in English

Jr. Munguia 1 printing we hold · 1996 · Signet Classics
Gustavo Pellon 1 printing we hold · 2006 · Hackett Publishing Company

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Editions we hold

Los de abajo paperback · 2014 · Fondo de Cultura Economica · 160 pages · 9789681603205
The underdogs edition · 2008 · Penguin Books · 148 pages · 9780143105275
The underdogs edition · 2008 · Signet Classics · 171 pages · 9780451531087
The Underdogs paperback · 2007 · BiblioBazaar · 140 pages · 9781434603289
The Underdogs (Large Print Edition) paperback · 2007 · BiblioBazaar · 152 pages · 9781434604019
The Underdogs hardcover · 2006 · 1st World Library - Literary Society · 196 pages · 9781421809786
The Underdogs hardcover · 2006 · Hackett Publishing Company · 173 pages · 9780872208353
The underdogs edition · 2006 · Hackett Pub. Co. · 173 pages · 9780872208346
Los de Abajo paperback · 2002 · AIMS International Books · 9789561305793
The underdogs edition · 2002 · Waveland Press · 140 pages
Underdogs edition · 1999 · Tandem Library · 9780613175753
Los de abajo edition · 1997 · Penguin Books · 134 pages

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