Websites
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Isabel Allende.
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A biography of Chile's greatest poet from the Nobel Foundation, which includes links to his Nobel lecture and to a picture of his Nobel diploma.
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The Guardian provides an interactive guide to the 1973 coup.
Movie or TV Productions
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The 1993 film version of the novel stars lots of big names, including Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Meryl Streep, and even Antonio Banderas as the studly Pedro Tercero García.
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A relatively recent independent movie about Salvador Allende's place in the history of Chile.
Historical Documents
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In which the reviewer, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, grudgingly admits that The House of the Spirits is a pretty good book.
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A slightly more favorable review, written by Alexander Coleman, a professor of Latin American Literature at New York University.
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Bill Moyers interviews Allende.
Video
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Isabel Allende talks about women and feminism.
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In all its cheesiness.
Audio
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Images
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A slideshow of photos taken before and after the 1973 military coup in Chile. But be warned: some of these pictures may depict violence.
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The movie poster for the film version of The House of the Spirits, which was released in 1993.