The Conquests of Mexico and Peru: Volume I

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

It is a magnificent epic, Prescott declared of his own work, the splendid History of the Conquest of Mexico, after its publication in 1843, and indeed, it is still hailed today as his masterpiece. Reverberating with hints of Greek tragedy and classical drama, this is a sweeping and enthralling account of Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes’s crushing of Montezuma and his Aztec empire. Perhaps the most important work of Latin American history, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration, raves Prescott biographer Harry Thurston Peck. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Also available from Cosimo Classics: History of the Conquest of Peru, Prescott’s companion volume about Pizarro’s subjugation of the Incans. Historian, writer, and scholar WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT (1796-1859) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. A regular contributor to the prestigious Boston literary journal North American Review, he also authored numerous books of history, including 1837’s The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, a critical and popular success in both America and Europe.