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Under the Volcano

  • Malcolm Lowry

3.63

8 ratings

It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah dogs roam the streets. Geoffrey Firmin, HM ex-consul, is drowning himself in liquor and Mescal, while his ex-wife and half brother look on powerless to help him. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. UNDER THE VOLCANO is one of the century's great undisputed masterpieces.

Genres

  • Alcoholics
  • Alcoholism
  • All Souls' Day
  • British
  • Consuls
  • Festivals
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Psychological aspects of Alcoholism
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Psychological aspects
  • Fiction, general
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About the author

  • Malcolm Lowry

    28 July 1909 - 26 June 1957

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Editions

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    3a ed.

    Bruguera

    1984

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    Bruguera

    1983

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    Era

    June 30, 2005

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    New American Library

    1965

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Lippincott

1965

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    New American Library

    1966

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    Penguin Group

    1971

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    Plume

    May 1, 1971

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    April 10, 2007

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    New Ed edition

    MacMillan

    July 1998

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    Penguin in association with J. Cape

    2000

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    En bok för alla

    1996

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    4a ed.

    Feltrinelli

    1984

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    Penguin Group UK

    2008

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    1st Perennial Classics ed.

    Perennial Classics

    2000

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    Penguin Books Ltd

    February 3, 2000

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    Abridged edition

    Audio Literature

    August 1997

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    Penguin Books in association with J. Cape

    1962

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    Reynal & Hitchcock

    1947

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    Jonathan Cape

    1970

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    Rowohlt

    1988

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    Penguin

    1962

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    n.e.

    Vintage

    2000

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    Plume

    May 1, 1970

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    Reynal & Hitchcock

    1947

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    Cape

    1984

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    De Bezige Bij

    1966

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    New American Library

    1971

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    Vintage Books

    1958

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    Rev. ed.

    Cape

    1967

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    Reynal & Hitchcock

    1947

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    Lippincott

    1965

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    New American Library of Canada

    1966

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    1st HarperPerennial Modern Classics ed.

    HarperPerennial Modern Classics

    2007

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    Signet

    1947

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    Ed. définitive rev. et corr. --

    Le Club français du livre

    1971

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    Buchet-Chastel

    1973

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    Edition définitive entièrement rev. et corr. --

    Editions Buchet/Chastel

    1976

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    Gyldendal Norsk

    1949

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    Reynal & Hitchcock

    1947

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    Lippincott

    1965

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    J. Cape

    1947

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    Pan in association with Jonathan Cape

    1990

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    Gyldendal

    1949

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    Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy

    1976

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    Plume

    March 1, 1971

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    Cape

    1967

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    Bruguera

    1964

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    Rowohlt