by Ricardo Palma ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane ; edited with an introduction and chronology by Christopher Conway.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
1 online resource (xlv, 263 pages).
Library of Latin America
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263).
"Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and manuscripts. His historical miscellanies, which he called "traditions," are witty anecdotes about conquerors, viceroys, clergymen, and other notorious characters of Peru's colonial and republican past."--Jacket.