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The Purple Land
Chapitres (30)
- Preface 0:00
- I: Rambles in Modern Troy 2:16
- II: Peasant Homes and Hearts 28:15
- III: Materials for a Pastoral 51:31
- IV: Vagabonds’ Rest 1:05:55
- V: A Colony of English Gentlemen 1:27:36
- VI: The Colony Under a Cloud 1:44:39
- VII: Love of the Beautiful 1:57:40
- VIII: Manuel, Also Called the Fox 2:09:31
- IX: The Botanist and the Simple Native 2:27:31
- X: Matters Relating to the Republic 2:35:11
- XI: The Woman and the Serpent 2:59:40
- XII: Children in the Forest 3:15:48
- XIII: Barking Dogs and Shouting Rebels 3:32:16
- XIV: Maids of Fancy: Maids of Yí 3:44:58
- XV: When the Trumpet Calls to Battle 4:11:20
- XVI: Romance of the White Flower 4:29:43
- XVII: Passion Versus Patriotism 5:03:28
- XVIII: Rest on Thy Rock, Andromeda! 5:39:16
- XIX: Tales of the Purple Land 6:05:04
- XX: A Ghastly Gift 6:43:46
- XXI: Liberty and Dirt 7:00:41
- XXII: A Crown of Nettles 7:23:25
- XXIII: The Red Flag of Victory 7:43:02
- XXIV: Mystery of the Green Butterfly 8:04:19
- XXV: Deliver Me from Mine Enemy 8:19:47
- XXVI: Lock and Key and Sinners Three 8:39:30
- XXVII: Night and Flight 9:04:44
- XXVIII: Goodbye to the Purple Land 9:22:57
- XXIX: Back to Buenos Aires 9:51:28
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The Englishman Richard Lamb is forced to flee to Montevideo, Uruguay after marrying an Argentinian girl without her father’s permission. When he’s unable to find work in the city, he curses the country and its inhabitants, wishing that it was still ruled by England. Looking for work in the countryside, he finds adventure and romance while reexamining his beliefs about freedom and civilization.
The Purple Land is W. H. Hudson’s first novel. Ill-received by both critics and the public when first published, it was reevaluated in later years, with Jorge Luis Borges saying that it was “perhaps unexcelled by any work of Gaucho literature.”
Hudson was raised in the Argentine pampas, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna. In 1874 he moved to England, and was shocked by the ecological changes that industrialization had brought; this contrast helped inform the background of The Purple Land.