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La cautiva

Esteban Echeverría · 1837

Original text in Spanish.

A captive woman and her wounded husband flee an Indian encampment across the pampas.

Poetry · 10 parts · about 10 000 words · about 42 min of reading

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Contents

  1. Parte primera: El desierto4 min
  2. Parte segunda: El festín5 min
  3. Parte tercera: El puñal7 min
  4. Parte cuarta: La alborada2 min
  5. Parte quinta: El pajonal3 min
  6. Parte sexta: La espera2 min
  7. Parte séptima: La quemazón3 min
  8. Parte octava: Brian6 min
  9. Parte novena: María7 min
  10. Epílogo2 min

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Esteban Echeverría († 1851): public-domain work. The text is that of Wikisource. Its transcription, by Wikisource volunteers (contribution history), is published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; so are this reading page and the EPUB file. Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

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