Showing results for "El Dorado" in Literary Fiction

El Dorado is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson: It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man's contentious life.

Juan Augusto Suter, natural de Rynenberg, cerca de Basilea, de treinta años de edad. Tiene un gran interés en poner el vasto océano entre su persona y los tribunales europeos de justicia. Acusado de quiebra fraudulenta, de robo, de falsificación, ha abandonado a su esposa y a sus tres hijos menores. Sirviéndose de documentos falsos, se ha proporcionado en París algún dinero. Y ahora emprende el viaje, en busca de una nueva existencia.