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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Isabel Allende
Born: August 2, 1942 (age 81)
Bio: Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful.
Known for:
- The House of the Spirits (1982)
- The Japanese Lover (2015)
- Eva Luna (1987)
- City of the Beasts (2002)
- Daughter of Fortune (1999)
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