Caybigan

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Caybigan (1906)
by James Hopper

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Caybigan, is Hopper's first volume of stories, most or all of which were previously published separately in McClure's Magazine. Frontispiece by William Hatherell.

There is a newcomer in the field of the short story, to whom it is a privilege and a pleasure to give a special prominence this month. There is a strange, exotic, almost morbid strength in these stories. In vividness and tensity they are on a par with the shorter stories of Joseph Conrad, whose style his own often suggests; a few of them have almost the quality of some of Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills. It is true that to an author with a powerful and gloomy imagination it is easier to write stories of the type [...] stories full of a haunting exoticism, the mystery of the unfamiliar life in the Philippines ... —Extracted from the book review by Frederic Taber Cooper in The Bookman, November 1906.

[Note: Not all stories are powerful and gloomy: there are stories of humor, romance, and even farce.]

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Caybigan

James Hopper

CAYBIGAN

"The subsequent walk across the plaza with the hard-won bundle, beneath the appreciative eyes of the whole town, had been humiliating"

Caybigan

BY
JAMES HOPPER

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVI

Copyright, 1906, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, September, 1906

Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, by The S. S. McClure Company

CONTENTS

chapter page
I. The Judgment of Man 3
II. The Maestro of Balangilang 27
III. Her Reading 52
IV. The Struggles and Triumph of Isidro de los Maestros 74
V. The Failure 98
VI. Some Benevolent Assimilation 124
VII. A Jest of the Gods 153
VIII. The Coming of the Maestra 178
IX. Caybigan 202
X. The Capture of Papa Gato 226
XI. The Mañangete 257
XII. The Past 267
XIII. The Prerogative 277
XIV. The Confluence 289
XV. The Call 331

CAYBIGAN

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