Jorge Isaacs Collected editions

Jorge Isaacs (1837 – 1895) was a Colombian novelist and poet whose romantic novel María is considered a masterpiece of 19th-century Latin American literature. Set in the lush Cauca Valley, it tells the tragic love story of Efraín and María, blending personal emotion with rich natural description.

Isaacs’s lyrical prose and evocation of landscape have made María a lasting symbol of Colombian literary heritage.

Through this novel, Jorge Isaacs captured the ideals and sorrows of a bygone era, ensuring its place in the canon of Latin American romance.