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Book Description:

Already a best seller and critical success in Europe and Latin America, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family - their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all. More... (Isabel Allende Official Website)

Booknotes about The House of the Spirits:

  • Gale Group - for teachers who are subscribed to the Gale Group online service there is an excellent overview of the The House of the Spirits on their "DISCovering Authors" database. Go to Gale Group > Discovering Collection > Literature Search > Title Search. Type in 'House of Spirits' and the booknotes will appear. There are also essays and biographies of the author.

    Source Citation: Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits, in Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Book Two, Gale Research, 1995. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC/

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