ALLENDE, ISABEL

Daughter of Fortune

New York: Perennial / Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. Softcover. ISBN: 0060932759. A softcover edition of Isabel Allende's 1999 novel, which is the story of a young woman who travels with her lover to the California gold fields of 1849. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. --- In black wraps with image of the protagonist to front panel , Oprah's badge to front. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, bright and unmarked but with back cover sticker.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (12), 399 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Allende, Isabel

Daughter of Fortune

Near fine condition. Flamingo, 1999. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Tan hardback(nick/dent on the edge of the front cover, silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of small creases & nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated with a b/w map. Nice and clean pages with light shelf wear on the outer edges, a couple of small creases, nick and light shelf wear on the edges of the pages. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 399pp. Price un-clipped. First edition. Review: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprised of such heavy hitters as Gabriel Garcªa M?rquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multigenerational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of non-fiction and has remained in a place of honour ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: The canvas is wide, the characters are multigenerational and multiethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep. n nYou have English blood, like us, Miss Rose assured Eliza when she was old enough to understand. Only someone from the British colony would have thought to leave you in a basket on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company, Limited. I am sure they knew how good-hearted my brother Jeremy is and felt sure he would take you in. In those days I was longing to have a child and you fell into my arms, sent by God to be brought up in the solid principles of the Protestant faith and the English language. n nThe family servant, Mama Fresia, has a different point of view, however: You, English? Don't get any ideas, child. You have Indian hair, like mine. And certainly Eliza's almost mystical ability to recall all the events of her life would seem to stem more from the Indian than the Protestant side. n nAs Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 goldrush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. Allende peoples her novel with a host of colourful secondary characters. She even takes the narrative as far afield as China, providing an intimate portrait of Tao Chi'en's past before returning to 19th-century San Francisco, where he and Eliza eventually end up. Readers with a taste for the epic, the picaresque and romance that is satisfyingly complex will find them all in Daughter of Fortune. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780002259750

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Allende, Isabel

Daughter of Fortune

NY: Harper Collins, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 656481

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 006019491X

Allende, Isabel, translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden,

Daughter of Fortune.

NY, Perennial, (2000). 8th ptg. VG PB. An orphan raised in Chile by a Victorian spinster & her rigid brother, Eliza follows her lover to California during the 1849. Gold Rush.

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Book number: BOOKS032206I

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Allende, Isabel, translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden,

Daughter of Fortune.

NY, HarperCollins, (1999). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Orphaned and raised in Valparaiso, Eliza follows her lover Joaquin to San Francisco where he hopes to strike gold. Lovely copy. DJ price clipped.

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ALLENDE, ISABEL

Daughter of Fortune

London: Flamingo, 1999. 1st UK Edition.. Hard Cover In a Dust Jacket. 8vo, 399 pages, not illustrated. Water stain in last 20 odd pages.. Good .

Philip EmeryProfessional seller

Book number: 006240

Catalogue: Fiction/Historical

Keywords: Isabel Allende

Allende, Isabel

Daughter of fortune

London, Flamingo,1999, 399p, paperback, scarcely used

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Book number: 15854

Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Daughter of Fortune: a Novel

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. HarperCollins, 2001. Mass Market Paperback. 038082101X. Very Good 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.447 clean tight copy slight edgewear. Very Good/Unknown.

Judith Patton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 006244

Keywords: FICTION LITERATURE HISTORICAL CHILE HISPANIC AMERICANS 038082101X

Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune

Flamingo 1999 Paperback, 399pp. 'Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andiera, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquin takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.'--BOOK JACKET. Owner's Name inside. Some tanning. (ISBN: 9780002259613). Good.

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Book number: 1569205

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Allende, Isabel; Translated from the Spanish By Peden, Margaret Sayers,

Daughter of Fortune.

New York, Harper-Collins Publishers, 2000. 6th. Hardcover., G (See Description), G/G Book Lightly Edgeworn. Dj Scuffed, Edgeworn. Slightly Cocked. Pages: 399.

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Book number: MASTER365102I

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Allende, Isabel; Translated from the Spanish By Peden, Margaret Sayers,

Daughter of Fortune.

New York, Harper-Collins Publishers, 2000. 6th. Hardcover., G (See Description), Vg/G Book Lightly Edgeworn. Dj Edgeworn. Pages: 399.

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Book number: MASTER366334I

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Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden [translator]

Eva Luna, the Stories of Eva Luna, & Daughter of Fortune

London, Hamish Hamilton; Flamingo, 1989-1999. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first UK editions of novels from Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Three volumes. First UK edition. Written by Isabel Angelica Allende Llona, a Chilean-American writer noted for her magical realism. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, an American translator. This set contains: Eva Luna, 1989. First impression. The life of the eponymous orphan who grows up in an unidentified country in South America. Exploring the country's political history, traced through several decades of the mid-twentieth century, interweaving Eva's personal story with the broader geopolitical turmoil of Latin America at the time. The Stories of Eva Luna, 1991. Second impression. A collection of short stories, consisting of those told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna. Daughter of Fortune, 1999. Second impression. In Chile during the 1840s, young Chilean Eliza Sommers is raised and educated by English Anglican siblings Rose, Jeremy, and John Sommers. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 930T8

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Eva Luna Stories Daughter Fortune Stories Peden None

COURT, DILLY

Fortune's Daughter

HarperCollins. 2021-06-10. (ISBN: 0008435499) paperback, 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

M. Godding Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 279215

Catalogue: Fiction_historical

Keywords: 0008435499

Hoffman, Alice,

Fortune's Daughter.

New York, Berkley Books, 1999. Later Printing. Trade Paperback., Vg- in Wraps. Wraps Lightly Creased at Corners. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 310.

Vintage BooksProfessional seller

Book number: MASTER367108I

Catalogue: Literature

Alice Hoffman

Fortune&Apos;S Daughter

London, Collins Harvill, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first UK edition of this dramatic novel by Alice Hoffman, presented in a lovely illustrated and unclipped dust wrapper. First UK Edition, Scarce.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This is a dramatic work of fiction by Alice Hoffman which is described as a 'juxtaposition of the mythic, the apocalyptic, with the resolutely ordinary&apos. This novel follows two women who meet by chance during a hot Californian summer, one who reads fortunes from tea-leaves, and the other who runs away from home and becomes pregnant. Alice Hoffman is an American novelist who has written a range of works for adults as well as young-adult and children's books. She is best known for her novel 'Practical Magic&apos. Collated, complete.  In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with no noticeable faults other than a bit of bumping to the extremities.Dust wrapper is excellent. with light age-toning to the spine region. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 816D32

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Fortune's Daughter Alice Hoffman fiction Practical Magic Alice Hoffman None