Word: antigua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOUSE IN ANTIGUA-Louis Adamic-Harper...
...time 33-year-old immigrant Author Adamic's subject, lacking the autobiographical ties which have stimulated him in writing his previous books, handicaps him. As with The Native's Return, his best-selling account of a revisit to his native Yugoslavia, Author Adamic wrote The House in Antigua as an accidental result of a pleasure trip to Guatemala in 1936. His original purpose was merely "to get away from it all." He picked Antigua, former capital of Guatemala, because friends rhapsodized over its ruins, and because he "had long been responsive to these lines in the second...
Particularly he was told not to miss "the Popenoe place," called the Casa del Capuchino. This was a 300-year-old Spanish house, in ruins since the destruction of Antigua by earthquake in 1773, which had lately been restored by United Fruit Co.'s famed agronomist Dr. Wilson ("Pop") Popenoe and his wife. Guest of Dr. Popenoe for two weeks, Author Adamic decided the house warranted a book. A further incentive arose from his enthusiastic agreement with United Fruit Co.'s Managing Director Samuel Zemurray, who had said of the natives: "They've got something, those people...
...historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less naïve. As a device for jarring the reader out of that slightly dreamy state induced by travel books, the theory, coming where it does in The House in Antigua, is indisputably effective...
...girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...