“Every crease is a story.”

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Born 1942
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende, 1982

Eva Luna
Isabel Allende, 1987

Paula
Isabel Allende & Lieselotte Kolanoske, 1994

City of the Beasts
Isabel Allende, 2002

Violeta
Isabel Allende, 2022

Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende, 1998

The Japanese lover
Isabel Allende, 2014

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken & others, 1992

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende, 1984

Zorro
Isabel Allende, 2005

Retrato En Sepia
Isabel Allende, 2000

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Kate Kinsella, Joan Aiken & others, 2002

A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende, 2019

El Viento Conoce Mi Nombre
Isabel Allende, 2023

Inés del alma mía
Isabel Allende, 2006

My Invented Country
Isabel Allende, 2003

Afrodita
Isabel Allende, 1997

Maya's Notebook
Isabel Allende, 2011

Island Beneath the Sea
Isabel Allende, 2009

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Isabel Allende, 2003

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Sumner Braunstein, Isabel Allende & others, 1994

The Infinite Plan
Isabel Allende, 1991

The Sum of Our Days
Isabel Allende, 2007

The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende, 2020

In the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende, 2014

Prentice Hall Literature
Kevin Feldman, Margaret Atwood & others, 2007

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Carol Domblewski, Henry Aaron & others, 1999

Ripper
Isabel Allende, 2013

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Carol Domblewski, Chinua Achebe & others, 2001
Mi Nombre Es Emilia Del Valle / My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
Isabel Allende, 2025

Forest of the Pygmies
Isabel Allende, 2004

The Well of Creativity
Isabel Allende, Julia Cameron & others, 1997

Amor
Isabel Allende, 2012
Civilice a su troglodita
Isabel Allende, 1974

La gorda de porcelana
Isabel Allende, 1984

La casa de los espíritus / Hija de la fortuna / La isla bajo el mar
Isabel Allende, 2021

Pack Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende, 2023

My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
Isabel Allende, 2025

Pygmalion and Related Readings
George Bernard Shaw, Ovid & others, 1997

Cartas a Paula
Isabel Allende & Anna Perquin, 1996

Ein diskretes Wunder
Isabel Allende, 2010

Trilogía La casa de los espíritus
Isabel Allende, 2022

Salidas de madre
Isabel Allende, Alejandra Rojas & others, 1996

10 relatos de amor
Isabel Allende, Mario Benedetti & others, 1995

Conversations with Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende, 1999

Abarat and Other Fantasy Tales for Teens
Clive Barker, Isabel Allende & others, 2002

Memorias del aguila y el jaguar
Isabel Allende, 2004

El juego de Ripper
Isabel Allende, 2014
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