Zorro (Hardcover) by Isabel Allende

from JackMassa

I have loved Zorro since I was four years old (so, eh, for 60 years). I have enjoyed his many incarnations, from the original 1919 Johnston McCulley story, through many many film, TV, and comics incarnations, and straight up to this unlikely literary, somewhat magical realist, and (dare I say?) f...

from raizel

A well-written, fun read with lots of historical information about oppressed people, in this case Native Americans in California and Romani in Spain. We learn how Diego learned all the skills and acquired the deceptive dilettante appearance that make him Zorro---horseback riding from Romani, magi...

from banshea

By Allende's reckoning, protagonists are lost in the world if the stories don't start with the stories of their parents or even their grandparents. It takes a very long time for this book to actually get around to Zorro, but the result is an immersive world created through lyrical prose. Fans of ...

from banshea

By Allende's reckoning, protagonists are lost in the world if the stories don't start with the stories of their parents or even their grandparents. It takes a very long time for this book to actually get around to Zorro, but the result is an immersive world created through lyrical prose. Fans of ...

from darlenejoy

Isabel Allende is one of my favorite writers, and with Zorro, she gains further admiration. This is her version of the legend of Zorro- that swashbuckling masked crusader for justice. He is Diego dela Vega, born to a Spanish father and a half-American Indian mother, raised in a California haciend...