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Ramona (Hardcover)
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Ramona (Hardcover)
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List price R601
Loot Price R501
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You Save R100 (17%)
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Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her
activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of
racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in
the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon
publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental
novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster mother,
Ramona, a Scottish-Native American girl, is taken in by her
reluctant foster aunt Senora Gonzaga Moreno. Early on, she
experiences discrimination due to her mixed heritage and troubled
upbringing, but Gonzaga Moreno begrudgingly provides for her as
though she were her own daughter, in accordance with her sister's
wishes. When a group of Native American migrant workers arrives
from Temecula to perform the annual sheep shearing, Ramona falls in
love with Alessandro, a pious Catholic. Despite his honesty and
capacity for hard work, Alessandro is viewed with contempt by the
Senora. Faced with no alternative, the lovers elope and make their
way toward the San Bernardino Mountains, facing racism and violence
from American settlers along the way. Bound by love, rejected by
the dominant cultures of the newly Americanized California,
Alessandro and Ramona must do what they can to survive. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona is a classic of
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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