The Purple Land
Richard Lamb's Comic Adventures through Banda OrientalBy William Henry Hudson
Length10h 10m
About this audiobook
Richard Lamb travels through "Banda Oriental" (Uruguay) to find himself a perfect job and a perfect girl while his wife back home is totally oblivious to his colourful and often comic misadventures. Richard finds himself in various tricky spots, amongst natives and eventually comes to an important realisation—English imperialism is bad for this place!Jorge Luis Borges dedicated an essay to The Purple Land in his book Other Inquisitions. He compared Hudson's novel to the Odyssey and described it as perhaps the "best work of gaucho literature." Ernest Hemingway also famously referred to Hudson's book in his novel The Sun Also Rises.
Excerpt:
"Three chapters in the story of my life—three periods, distinct and well defined, yet consecutive—beginning when I had not completed twenty-five years and finishing before thirty, will probably prove the most eventful of all. To the very end they will come back oftenest to memory and seem more vivid than all the other years of existence—the four-and-twenty I had already lived, and the, say, forty or forty-five—I hope it may be fifty or even sixty—which are to follow. For what soul in this wonderful, various world would wish to depart before ninety! The dark as well as the light, its sweet and its bitter, make me love it…"
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
17CHAPTER XVI
2CHAPTER I
18CHAPTER XVII
3CHAPTER II
19CHAPTER XVIII
4CHAPTER III
20CHAPTER XIX
5CHAPTER IV
21CHAPTER XX
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6CHAPTER V
22CHAPTER XXI
7CHAPTER VI
23CHAPTER XXII
8CHAPTER VII
24CHAPTER XXIII
9CHAPTER VIII
25CHAPTER XXIV
10CHAPTER IX
26CHAPTER XXV
11CHAPTER X
27CHAPTER XXVI
12CHAPTER XI
28CHAPTER XXVII
13CHAPTER XII
29CHAPTER XXVIII
14CHAPTER XIII
30CHAPTER XXIX
15CHAPTER XIV
31APPENDIX
16CHAPTER XV
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