María

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 Jose Morales Garcia

Language: Spanish

Title: María

Author: Jorge Isaacs

Publisher: Stockcero, Inc.

Year: 1868

Summary

This is a story about two people, Maria and Efrain. When they were young, they fell in love each other. The story happened in a ranch located near Cali-Colombia. Efrain was a handsome boy, and Maria an attractive woman. Efrain had to go to Bogota, because he was going to school. His studies took 6 years, and when he finished he came back to his home. Maria and he met again, and spent three months together. Efrain was to be a doctor, and he had to take classes in London. They were cousins and had their feelings for each other was kept secret. Only his sister Emma knew about their romance. After that, Efrain went to continue his studies, and he wrote letters to Maria to tell her about his life. 

In the Efrain family, many problems occurred that affected the health of his father. Two years later, Maria suffered a serious illness. Efrain received a letter from his family which explained what happened to Maria.  Therefore, Efrain returned to Colombia. When he arrived, Efrain knew that Maria died two days before. He was devastated and went far away.   Nobody knew where Efrain was.

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About the author Jorge Isaac (1837 – 1895), he was  born in Colombia. He is famous by his novel Maria which was written in 1864, and became to success quickly. His style was emotional lyrical novel. He just wrote one novel and some poems. He died in Ibague, Colombia. 

Maria is a romantic Colombian novel, and it had been translated to more than 15 languages since XIX century. In this pages we found an exquisite prose where the love and tragedy between Maria and Efrain. We can identified that we have something like strength and weakness, and it is even in this days.