Mayflower (Flor de mayo)

Mayflower (Flor de mayo)
A Tale of the Valencian Seashore

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Mayflower (Flor de mayo) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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1921

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Mayflower (Flor de mayo)
A Tale of the Valencian Seashore

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A masterly novel of the sea, the sea of Sarolla's fisher folk... Homeric i their simplicity and elemental passion.

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brine, lost that harsh baked bronze of the women who worked along shore. When serving at the counter her ample breast sported inevitably one of an endless assortment of colored handkerchiefs, tomate y huevo, complicated arabesques of tomato red and egg yellow worked into thick well woven silk.

She could even afford purely decorative luxuries. Above the wine casks at the back of the "shop" the whitewashed timbers screamed aloud with cheap high colored chromos that reduced Tona's neck-wear to silence, quite. The fishermen drinking outside under the shelter would look up over the counter and feast their eyes on "The Lion Hunt," "The Death of the Good Man and the Sinner," "The Ladder of Life," not to mention a half dozen miracle-workers with Saint Anthony in the place of honor; and a cartoon showing the lean merchant who trusts, and the fat one who sells for cash, with the customary legend: "If you want credit, come back to-morrow!"

Tona could be quite properly satisfied at the relative com

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