1946 Novels (Book Guide): All the King's Men, El Se or Presidente, the Silent Speaker, Titus Groan, the Hollow, the Magical Mimics in Oz

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 50. Chapters: All the King's Men, El Senor Presidente, The Silent Speaker, Titus Groan, The Hollow, The Magical Mimics in Oz, Bright Day, Zorba the Greek, All Men Are Mortal, The Member of the Wedding, Slan, Letty Fox: Her Luck, Freddy the Pied Piper, The Cruise of the Breadwinner, The Big Clock, Ilsa, The Bulwark, Lord Hornblower, The Fields, He Who Whispers, The Turquoise, The Secret Panel, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Mistress Masham's Repose, The Street, First Term at Malory Towers, Nightmare Alley, The Creator, King Jesus, Jill, The Castle of Adventure, The Berlin Stories, Valley of the Flame, Private Angelo, Joy in the Morning, The Murder in the Honjin, The Reluctant Widow, My Late Wives, Back, Mercier and Camier, The Saint Sees it Through, Dark Passage, Momotar -zamurai, The Moving Toyshop, The Land of Foam, Miss Hickory, The Big Wave, Thieves in the Night, Death of a Train, Death into Life, Mr. Adam, The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters, Showdown, The House in Lordship Lane, Lucinda Brayford, Betsy in Spite of Herself, Dark Hero, Trouble Follows Me, The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, A World to Win, Miss Ranskill Comes Home, Seara Vermelha, The Long Holiday, The Sea Eagle, Chwalfa, Histoire d'un fait divers. Excerpt: (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society. Asturias makes early use of a literary technique now known as magic realism. One of the most notable works of the dictator novel genre, developed from an earlier Asturias short story, written to protest social injustice in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in the author's home town. Although does not ex...