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Authors: Isabel Allende

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PRAISE
FOR
D
AUGHTER OF
F
ORTUNE

“The Chilean novelist possesses the eyes, ears, mind, heart, and pluck to manufacture generous and feisty fiction. .Â .Â . [A] rambunctious picaresque about love and obsession.”

âMiami Herald

“Allende interweaves a densely layered tale of passion with the stuff of history and legend.”

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San Diego Union-Tribune

“Allende details her plot and settings richly.”

âEntertainment Weekly

“A fast-pased adventure story.”

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San Francisco Chronicle

“Allende projects a woman's point of view with confidence, control, and an expansive definition of romance as a fact of life.”

âTime

“
Daughter of Fortune
is full of energy and vivacity. It holds out a promise of happiness.”

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Vogue
(Australia)

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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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D
AUGHTER OF FORTUNE
. Copyright Â© 1999 by Isabel Allende. English translation copyright Â© 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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2000.

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

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Allende, Isabel.

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[Hija de la fortuna. English]

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Daughter of fortune : a novel / by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.â1st ed.

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p.Â Â Â cm.

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ISBN 0-06-019491-x

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EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062254429

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I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.

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PQ8098.1.L54H5513 1999