{"product_id":"9781101154038","title":"Ramona","description":"“If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, “I would be thankful the rest of my life.” Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of \u003ci\u003eRamona\u003c\/i\u003e, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican \u003ci\u003eranchera\u003c\/i\u003e, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair’s adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet from the first American edition of 1884, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes José Martí’s 1888 prologue (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen).","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120876798192,"sku":"9781101154038","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101154038_p0.jpg?v=1763685185","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101154038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}