Ramona (Modern Library Classics (eBook)) (A Signet classic) (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Helen Hunt Jackson

Michael Dorris (Introduction) and Valerie Sherer Mathes (Afterword)

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One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona is a tale of true love tested.

Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora Moreno. But her desire for Alessandro, a Native American, makes her an outcast and fugitive...
  • ISBN10 0451528425
  • ISBN13 9780451528421
  • Publish Date 1 July 2002 (first published 26 February 1905)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Signet Classics