Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 - January 28, 1928)

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.

Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. Filmed in 1921 as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II. However, in his time he was a best-selling author inside and outside of Spain, and also known for his controversial political activities. While Sangre y arena (Blood and Sand) and Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La barraca and Cañas y barro are the ones most valued by scholars.

He finished studying law, but hardly practiced. He divided his time between politics, literature and dalliances with women, of whom he was a deep admirer. He wrote with uncanny speed and energy. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Blasco_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez

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"Coming Out" and Discovering the Rainbow by Danniel A DuBour
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LGBT Ebook and Print Releases January, 2012

"Coming Out" and Discovering the Rainbow by Danniel A DuBour
"Polly Peachum"; Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (Duchess of Bolton) and "The Beggar's Opera" by Charles E. Pearce
7 Bridges Road By: B.J. Scott (Beau to Beau Books of Male Love)
A Bar Tender Tale by Melanie Tushmore (Dreamspinner Press)
A Calling For Pleasure By: JL Merrow (JL Merrow)
A Cat Named Hercules by KC Kendricks (Amber Quill Press)
A Cowboy in Ravenna by Jan Irving (Total-e-Bound)
A Ghost Story by J.P. Bowie (Total-e-Bound)
A Human for Christmas By: Mark Alders (eXtasy Books)
A Journey of the Heart by Rick R. Reed (MLR Press)
A Life Without You by Erica Pike (MLR Press)
A Man's Game By: Toby Graham (Toby Graham)
A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by M. D. Kirby
A Problem in Modern Ethics; Being an Inquiry Into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
A Rare Thing by Alex Douglas (Torquere Books)
A Stepmother's Lust By: Sasha Merin (Sasha Merin)

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