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Original Title:	El Zorro
ISBN:	006078721X (ISBN13: 9780060787219)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bernardo, Zorro, Alejandro de la Vega, Lolita Pulido, Lechuza Blanca, Toypurnia, Jean Lafitte
Setting:	California(United States) Barcelona, Catalonia(Spain)

Zorro Paperback | Pages: 677 pages

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Title	:	Zorro
Author	:	Isabel Allende
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Large Print
Pages	:	Pages: 677 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 2005 by HarperLargePrint
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Romance. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Novels

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A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Spain, a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule. He soon joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. Between the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born, and the legend begins. After many adventures -- duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates at sea, and impossible rescues -- Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves.

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I have been "reading" this book for almost a year and I'm still only halfway through it so the likelihood that I'm going to finish it are diminishing by the moment.I love the idea of this book. The story of Zorro from his childhood? Wow, what's not to like? Except the story is "told" rather than "shown." There are paragraphs that take up full pages (in a *trade* paperback no less) and pages and pages between bits of dialog. This is ungodly slow reading. How anyone can take a swashbuckling hero

Having grown up watching the tv series, it was with pleasure that I started this novel. Add to this that it was written by Isabel Allende, and my expectations soared.Zorro is really an 'Origins' story, recounting how the masked crusader came to be, piecing together all the key elements, from the circumstances of Diego's birth to his embodying the myth. The author used a big cast, with many interesting characters, and a wealth of settings, each vast, colourful and intricate. Historical details

★★★★☆ - Really likedWell, so here we are friends! Amigos!OK, I will stop there before I get carried away. Ahem. So, for the astute amongst you, you should have already realised that this is not the tale of Zorro that the films were based off of (look for The Mark of Zorro for that), but a different tale also based on the legend, but this covering how the legend began. I have watched the first of the films with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones more than once (although I havent yet seen

Allende's version of the Zorro story is an old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure on one hand, a post-colonial story of colonial times on the other. Her hero, born Diego de la Vega to a Mestiza mother and Spanish father in L.A., takes on the attributes of off all cultures he comes in contact with (Native American healing and dreaming, French reason, Gypsy circus tricks, etc.) in a time when most people never stray from the village they're born in. So he's quite literally the best of all worlds.

I fell in love with Isabella Allende's writing when I read Daughter of Fortune. I was not disappointed with Zorro. Allende is a dynamic diva of story telling.Allende's Zorro begins in California with how his Spanish father met his Indian mother. His evolution into Zorro, and the beginning of his legendary fight for injustices takes him to Spain, to Jean Lafitte's legendary Barataria and back to California.I usually prefer to read books with female protagonists but since Allende wrote Zorro, I

"Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death." I found the early part of this book decidedly more fascinating than the last half or so. As I recall, the book sort of lost its way as it progressed, whereas the beginning was riveting. But as a whole it's another excellent piece of Isabel Allende's fiction. It was particularly interesting to me to read about early California

This is a tough review to write. Why? Because this was the first book I've read this year that I was disappointed with.Zorro is written by Isabel Allende, who is apparently a successful writer from Latin America. But frankly, I just don't think this was all that good. I expected more of a swashbuckling, action-packed story. Instead, the story focuses a lot on Diego de la Vega, whose alter-ego is Zorro, growing up in California and Spain. Zorro doesn't make his first appearance until something