The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Summary

The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse is a novel by the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. First published in 1916, it tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian landowner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides during the First World War. Its 1918 English translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan became the best-selling novel in the US in 1919 according to Publishers Weekly, which hailed it as "a superbly human story told by a genius." The novel was included in the list of 100 best novels of the 20th century by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

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English translation: all 15 published chapters are available.

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Chapters (15)

1. 1. En el jardín de la Capilla Expiatoria
2. 2. El centauro Madariaga
3. 3. La familia Desnoyers
4. 4. El primo de Berlín
5. 5. Donde aparecen los cuatro jinetes
6. 6. Las envidias de don Marcelo
7. 7. Vida nueva
8. 8. La retirada
9. 9. Junto á la gruta sagrada
10. 10. La invasión
11. 11. Después del Marne
12. 12. En el estudio
13. 13. La guerra
14. 14. No hay quien le mate
15. 15. Campos de muerte