Enemies of Women: Los Enemigos de la Mujer

1920. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, he also wrote The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. The book begins: The Prince repeated his statement: Man's greatest wisdom consists in getting along without women. He intended to go on but was interrupted. There was a slight stir of the heavy window curtains. Through their parting was seen below, as in a frame, the intense azure of the Mediterranean. A dull roar reached the dining-room. It seemed to come from the side of the house facing the Alps. It was a faint vibration, deadened by the walls, the curtains, and the carpets, distant, like the working of some underground monster; but there rose above the sound of revolving steel and the puffing of steam a clamor of human beings, a sudden burst of shouts and whistling. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Ibañez, Vincente Blasco is the author of 'Enemies of Women: Los Enemigos de la Mujer', published 2007 under ISBN 9780548012093 and ISBN 0548012091.