CONTEMPORARY SPANISH-AMERICAN FICTION.

- Preface. I. Fiction in Spanish America before 1914. II. City life in the Argentine as seen by Manuel Gálvez. III. Mariano Azuela, Portrayer of the Mexican Revolution. IV. Carlos Loveira, advocate of a New Morality for Cuba. V. Eduardo Barrios , Psychological Novelist of Chile. VI. Renowned short-story writer, Horacio Quiroga. VII. The Secrets of the Selvas of Colombia Unfolded by José Eustacio Rivera. VIII. Ricardo Güiraldes, Stylistic Depicter of the Gaucho. IX. Rómulo Gallegos, Interpreter of the Llanos of Venezuela. X. Jorge Icaza, Defender of the Ecuadorian Indian. XI. Ciro Alegría, Criollista of Perú. XII. Trends in Spanish-American Fiction. - Bibliography. - Index

"The purpose of this work is to introduce to English readers ten of the most important Spanish-American writers - nine novelists and one short-story writer - whose principal or entire work has been published since the outbreak of the first World War, and thereby to make possible a better understanding of the Spanish-speaking peoples in the western hemisphere".