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- W. H. Hudson, The Purple Land, edited by Ilan Stavans, The University of Wisconsin Press (2002)
- Jorge Luis Borges, "Sobre The Purple Land", in Otras Inquisiciones (first published 1952)
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (first published 1926)
