Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, unabridged republishing of a classic. The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse (Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, translated by Charlotte Brewster Jordan (1918) was first published in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War. Its 1918 English translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan became the best-selling novel in the U. S in 1919 according to Publishers Weekly, who hailed it as "a superbly human story told by a genius". The novel was included in the list of 100 best novels of the twentieth century by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.