Penguin Classics The Underdogs, (Paperback)

from sometimeunderwater

Enjoyable, but bleak. Every character is selfish, most are greedy, and a few are just bloodythirsty thugs. There's no dignity to these fighters, and no ideals behind their killing. A tragic, unsympathetic book.

from mattries37315

Anyone who has learned anything about the Mexican Revolution knows that it was a complicated era in that nation's history that just seemed to continue without end. The Underdogs was the first novel about the conflict even as it continued to grind on and written by a former participant Mariano Azu...

from Kristelh

Underdogs is the story of the Mexican Revolution. The story was set in Mexico and tells the story of the revolution from the native of Mexico's perspective and the land that belonged to them and the peasants right to fight back against the oppressive Spanish conquerors. The nationality of the aut...

from Dreesie

An interesting novel that isn't completely novel-like, this would be such an interesting book to read in a class on Mexican history or literature. Demetrio Macias, who becomes a general amongst the rebels, really joined because he had to. He would rather be at home on his farm with his wife and c...

from FPdC

This book in the classic novel of the Mexican Revolution. Azuela was himself a physician with one of the factions in the revolution, and this book projects some of the hopes and disenchantments he may have experienced. Following the travels and actions of a small group of men, commanded by a Deme...