Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen [short story]
by Gabriel García Márquez
On This Page
Description
In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. time, and in Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen, we present several short stories that reveal the range and depth found in one of modern literature's greatest authors.Tags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information

381+ Works 146,887 Members
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, show more Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
All Editions
Some Editions
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Work Relationships
Is contained in
Strange Pilgrims | Love in the Time of Cholera | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (indirect)
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Strange Pilgrims | Love in the Time of Cholera | The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garsia Markes (indirect)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen [short story]
- Original title
- Diecisiete Ingleses envenenados
- First words
- The first thing Senora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 863.64 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000
- LCC
- PQ8186.12 .M3 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
Statistics
- Members
- 141
- Popularity
- 231,310
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.57)
- Languages
- 5 — Arabic, English, German, Farsi/Persian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1





















































