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und0miels · 2 years

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Isabel Allende, The House Of The Spirits

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petaltexturedskies · 6 months

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She was a romantic, sentimental child, with a preference for solitude, few friends, and a propensity to be moved to tears when the roses in the garden bloomed, when she smelled the rags and soap the nuns used as they bent over their tasks, and when she stayed behind to experience the melancholy stillness of the empty classrooms. She was considered timid and morose.

Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits

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asoftepiloguemylove · 9 months

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hii if you can, could u pls make a webweave on solitude? like, not being lonely but loving being alone and purposely being alone yk

i hope this is what you were looking for !!

José Olivarez February & my love is in another state (via @girlfictions) / All About Lily Chou-Chou リリイ・シュシュのすべて (2001) dir. 岩井俊二 Shunji Iwai / Henry Miller Topic of Cancer / Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits (via @fromdarzaitoleeza) / pinterest / Franz Kafka from a diary entry dated July 1, 1913 (via @dailykafka) / Michel de Montaigne The Complete Essays

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yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21 · 24 days

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1530- La muerte no existe, la gente sólo muere cuando la olvidan; si puedes recordarme siempre estaré contigo.

(Isabel Allende)

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ladyhawke · 4 months

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– Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

#*#words #writing #typography #isabel allende #la casa de los espíritus #the house of the spirits #literature #latin american literature #annual christmas post #for the first time here on tumblr actually

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long-sleeved-sandwich · 11 months

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Oh to be a spectacularly beautiful bride-to-be in 19th century South America, with nearly mermaid like features—ivory skin and green hair. To pass the days embroidering wild beasts that defy the laws of nature and aerodynamics on the longest tablecloth in the world. To turn heads as I walk down the street, to be bathed in beams of light from the stain-glassed windows in mass. Completely unaware of my beauty. Awaiting my fiancé seeking his fortune in the Atacama desert, picturing him on unrealistic adventures in steel-toed boots. Watching my younger sister, accompanied by her dog the size of a horse, communicate with the spirits of the dead and move salt cellars across the table with her mind.

#house of the spirits #the house of the spirits #la casa de los espíritus #isabel allende #Chile #historical fiction #history #9/11/73 #magical realism #spiritism #aesthetic #latin american literature

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princessofbookaholics · 23 days

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"The scars of the past shape us, but they need not define us; we have the power to write our own stories."

#books #booklr #book #reading #read #bookworm #reads #bookaholic #bookaddict #the house of the spirits #isabel allende #its what my sister was reading at the time i took this photo #its from our old house

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high-school-lit-tournament · 7 months

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High School Lit Tournament Round 3

The Importance of Being Earnest: Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus): In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future. The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.

#high school lit tournament #classic literature #the importance of being earnest #the house of the spirits

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shitiunderline · 1 year

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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

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lost-on-t-umblr · 1 year

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Meryl Streep as Clara Del Valle and Glenn Close as Férula Trueba in The House of the Spirits (1993)

#clara del valle #the house of the spirits #meryl streep #Férula Trueba #Glenn Close #isabel allende #movie gifs #source material was of.. not ideal quality #but there are not enough gifs of this movie online so I had to improvise

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celestemagnoliathewriter · 1 year

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Ten Books to Know Me

Thank you @indigo-scarf for the tag! It was a bit of a struggle to figure these out - all the most important texts to know me are academic/non-fiction ones, but they're too niche for an internet post. So instead, here are 10 fiction works that I found moving with a sentence from their Goodreads page.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes: The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.

Silence by Shusaku Endo: In a perfect fusion of treatment and theme, this powerful novel tells the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JKR: Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine...

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder: Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo in the romantic conclusion of this Little House book and series.

The Giver by Lois Lowry: At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards: So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night.

I'll tag @merlins-sequined-hotpants, @leesielou, @in-love-with-remus-lupin, @messrmoonyy, @passionatewrites, @evesaintyves, @mumka-fanfic, @elizabethgoudge, @wisdomofwinter, @whinlatter, and @artemisia-black. Hopefully at least a couple of you haven't gotten this tag yet!

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iloveannaliese · 3 months

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"Rosa bowed her head and a ray of sunlight pierced the gothic stained-glass windows of the church, outlining her face in a halo of light"- The House of the Spirits- Isabel Allende

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peggychecksitout · 1 year

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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

REVIEW: 5 STARS

Spanning the years from the 1910s through to the 1970s, The House of the Spirits tells the story of three generations of women from the Trueba family, Clara, Blanca and Alba. It weaves together a tale threaded with magical realism, personal and political upheaval, and some of the most interesting character portraits I’ve read in a while.

This book is as magical as it is absolutely devastating. Allende's writing is mesmerising, imaginative and gut-wrenching at different turns. There’s a real juxtaposition between the magical elements presented to us—Clara’s clairvoyance, the kooky characters of her spiritualist salon, the house filled with spirits—and the incredible violence enacted both at personal and political levels (I highly recommend looking up the content warnings for this book, so you know what to expect going in).

The personal and the political are very closely entwined in this story; it’s a multi-generational family saga for sure, but as much as it is about the Trueba family, it’s about the history of the country that they’re a part of too (though never directly addressed, through context and historical clues, it is a fictionalised depiction of Chilean history).

It took me a little bit to get into the story, but once I did, I couldn’t put it down, and the end absolutely wrecked me—you know a book is good if it leaves you sobbing—and I think this is a book that is going to stick with me for a long time. There’s a reason that this was an instant bestseller, and has gone onto become a classic. It was my first Allende, but it certainly won’t be my last.

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cinemajunkie70 · 2 years

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