Critical Insights: Isabel Allende

This volume brings together a variety of essays on one of the best-selling women novelists today. Introductory essays discuss critical opinions and thoughts on Allende's work and provide a close reading and detailed analysis of The House of the Spirits. Other essays explore the themes of family and magical realism in The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna as well as the autobiographical facets of Daughters of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia. Finally, a quartet of essays discuss Allende's lesser known works, including Zorro and the short story "Two Words."