Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). This volume collects six short works by Ibanez: The Last Lion The Toad Compassion The Windfall Luxury and Rabies.