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Title: Their Son; The Necklace

Author: Eduardo Zamacois

Release Date: March 16, 2010 [eBook #31662]

Language: English

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THEIR SON
THE NECKLACE

by

EDUARDO ZAMACOIS

Translated by George Allan England

[Illustration]

New York
Boni and Liveright
1919

Copyright, 1919,
By Boni & Liveright, Inc.

Printed in the U. S. A.

_To My Sister_

For valuable assistance given in the rendering of localisms and obscure
passages in the following stories, I wish to return acknowledgment and
thanks to Miss Dolores Butterfield and Dona Rosario Munoz de Morrison.

GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND.

* * * * *

EDUARDO ZAMACOIS

_Artist--Apostle--Prophet_

Few writers of the tremendously virile and significant school of modern
Spain summarize in their work so completely the tendencies of the
_resurgimiento_ as does Eduardo Zamacois. "Renaissance" is really the
watchword of his life and literary output. This man is a human dynamo, a
revitalizing force in Spanish life and letters, an artist who is more
than a mere artist; he is a man with a message, a philosophy and a
vision; and all these he knows how to clothe in a forceful, masterly and
compelling style, which, though not always lucid, always commands.
Zamacois _sees_ life, and paints it as it is, sometimes with humor,
often with pitiless, dissecting accuracy.

To me, Zamacois seems a Spanish Guy de Maupassant. He tells a story in
much the same way, with that grace and charm which only genius, coupled
t