The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse

Having gone to Argentina in search of fortune, Marcelo Desnoyers returns to France with a wife and children. His sister-in-law marries a German, dividing the family at the outbreak of the First World War. Soon, Marcelo’s son is drawn into battle for the sake of pride and love. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

About the author

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and political activist. Born in Valencia, he studied law at university, graduating in 1888. As a young man, he founded the newspaper El Pueblo and gained a reputation as a militant Republican. After a series of court cases over his controversial publication, he was arrested in 1896 and spent several months in prison. A staunch opponent of the Spanish monarchy, he worked as a proofreader for Filipino nationalist José Rizal's groundbreaking novel Noli Me Tangere (1887). Blasco Ibáñez's first novel, The Black Spider (1892), was a pointed critique of the Jesuit order and its influence on Spanish life, but his first major work, Airs and Graces (1894), came two years later. For the next decade, his novels showed the influence of Émile Zola and other leading naturalist writers, whose attention to environment and social conditions produced work that explored the struggles of working-class individuals. His late career, characterized by romance and adventure, proved more successful by far. Blood and Sand (1908), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916), and Mare Nostrum (1918) were all adapted into successful feature length films by such directors as Fred Niblo and Rex Ingram.

Product details

• Authors: Vincente Blasco Ibáñez, Vincente Blasco Ibez
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2021
• EAN: 9781513299655
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-9965-5
• No. of pages: 356
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Literary Fiction; Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Classics, Family life fiction, First World War fiction, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I