📒 Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter, and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). This volume collects six short works by Ibanez: "The Last Lion," "The Toad," "Compassion," "The Windfall," "Luxury," and "Rabies."