Blanca Olmedo (1908: the first honduran novel): first honduran novel): The first honduran novel)
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Erandique Ingles
Published: May 27 2026
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lucila Gamero broke Honduran conventions by publishing Blanca Olmedo, the first novel written in this Central American country. Although Modernism continued its revolution of beauty and creative freedom, this work bears the unmistakable stamp of Romanticism. The study of real life and the deeply painful examples of injustice that I witnessed-sometimes suffered by my family and myself-were what led me to write this book, explained Lucila Gamero de Medina. The two lovers continued talking until ten o'clock at night, unaware that two greenish and malicious eyes, those of Doña Micaela, watched them with anger.
Powerful forces stood against the love between Gustavo Moreno and Blanca Olmedo: a priest, a corrupt judge, and a devout religious woman.
LUCILA GAMERO DE MEDINA was born on June 12, 1873, in DanlÃ, El ParaÃso, and died on January 23, 1964, at the age of ninety-one. She earned her degree as a Physician and Surgeon in 1924 from the National Autonomous University. She served as director of the hospital in DanlÃ. In addition to Blanca Olmedo, she wrote: Amalia Montiel; Adriana y Margarita; Página del corazón; Betina; AÃda; Amor exótico; as well as several short stories.
Also from
Gamero de Medina, Lucila
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
