Latin American Literature and The Private Library (Part V)

There is a "lazy person's way" to collect representative selections of great Latin American literature, and that is to focus on "ready collections" of such literature that are published in English translation by Penguin Classics and similar publishers:

      

Probably the best known of these ready collections is the Library of Latin America published by Oxford University Press:

      

The problem with most such ready collections is that they only are available in trade paperback, and thus do not hold up well to serious reading unless one is extremely careful.

Of course, if one can read this great literature in its original language of composition (Spanish or Portuguese), then hardbacks are readily available from specialist booksellers like Schoenhof's Foreign Books, located on Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  (Founded in 1856, Schoenhof's is the largest foreign-language bookstore in the USA):

      

However you choose to do it, you owe it to yourself to at least consider adding a few titles representative of this great literature to your private library....