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      The Night Visitor: And Other Stories

      by B. Traven
      Published
      Sep 1993
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      252
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      A short story collection from the author of the classic novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

      "One of the narrative masters of the twentieth century." —New York Times Book Review

      B Traven's The Night Visitor and Other Stories collects tales of life in Mexico with elements of indigenous folklore including:

      "The Night Visitor"

      "Effective Medicine"

      "Assembly Line""The Cattle Drive"

      "When the Priest is Not at Home"

      "Midnight Call"

      "A New God is Born"

      "Friendship"

      "Conversion of Some Indians"

      "Macario" (Basis for the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film)

      "In these ten stories Traven reveals himself as a great minor storyteller, somewhere on that vast plateau under Tolstoy, Chekhov and Hemingway. Many writers, even Western pulpskinners, use his primitive sentence style expertly; he alone brings to it an absolutely convincing moral vision and twist of universal irony." —Kirkus Reviews

      "Excellent, entertaining reading." —Publishers Weekly

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Sep 1993 Ivan R. Dee Publisher ISBN 1566630398
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