Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Selected Works

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.

The volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works, including "First Dream", which showcases her prodigious intellect and range and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist defence of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works are also included.

About the author

Acclaimed for her best-selling translations of Cervantes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (1936—2023) received many awards including the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.

Product details

• Authors: Juana Ines de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Edith Grossman, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
• Assisted by: Alvarez Julia (Introduction), Edith Grossman (Translation), Grossman Edith (Translation)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2014
• EAN: 9780393241754
• ISBN: 978-0-393-24175-4
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 218 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 393 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Mexikanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American, Poetry by individual poets, Stationery and miscellaneous items