Los de Abajo

In this deeply moving picture of the turmoil of the first great revolution of the twentieth century--the Mexican Revolution of 1910--Azuela depicts the anarchy and the idealism the base human passions and the valor and nobility of the simple folk and most striking of all the fascination of revolt--that peculiar love of revolution for revolution's sake that has characterized most of the social upheavals of the twentieth century. <b>Los de Abajo</b> is considered the only novel of the Revolution and since the spring of 1925 has been published in several languages and more than twenty-seven editions. Azuela's writing is sometimes racy and virile sometimes poetic and subdued but always in perfect accord with the mood and character of the story.