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The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review

The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

GenresMexican AmericansFictionGirlsChicago (Ill.)Bildungsromane

110 pages, 33 editions

English edition · First published 1983 by Vintage Contemporaries · ISBN 9780679734772

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Editions

33 editions

English

  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Contemporaries · 2009 · ISBN 9780679734772 · 1 reader This page
  • The House on Mango Street · Random House · 2026 · ISBN 9798217350636
  • House on Mango Street · Everyman · 2024 · ISBN 9781841594231
  • The House on Mango Street · Alfred A. Knopf · 2024 · ISBN 9781101908464
  • The House on Mango Street · Thorndike Press · 2019 · ISBN 9781432865061
  • The House on Mango Street · Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company · 2019 · ISBN 9781432865054
  • The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Guides) · Infobase Publishing · 2010 · ISBN 9781438133416
  • The House On Mango Street (knowledgenotes Student Guides) · Proquest Llc · 2010 · ISBN 9781109999679
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Contemporaries · 2009 · ISBN 9780558644994
  • The House On Mango Street · Vintage Contemporaries · 2009 · ISBN 9780329572440
  • The House on Mango Street · Marco Book Company · 2009 · ISBN 9781557449115
  • The House On Mango Street · Random House Audio Publishing Group · 2007 · ISBN 9780739322819
  • The House on Mango Street · Random House Audio · 2005 · ISBN 9780739322796
  • The House on Mango Street · Bloomsbury · 2004 · ISBN 9780747560876
  • The House on Mango Street - Activity Pack · Prestwick House, Inc. · 2001 · ISBN 9781580496001
  • The House on Mango Street · Listening Library · 2000 · ISBN 9780807288221
  • The House on Mango Street · Cliff Notes · 1998 · ISBN 9780822005995
  • The House on Mango Street · Random House Audio · 1998 · ISBN 9780375403828
  • The House on Mango Street · Perfection Learning Corporation · 1994 · ISBN 9780780768932
  • The House on Mango Street · A.A. Knopf · 1994 · ISBN 9780679433354
  • The House on Mango Street · Bloombury · 1992 · ISBN 9780747511540
  • The House on Mango Street · Perfection Learning Corporation · 1991 · ISBN 9780780743229
  • The House on Mango Street · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 1991 · ISBN 9781536409314
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Contemporaries · 1991 · ISBN 9780833568526
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Books · 1991 · ISBN 9781439500477
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Contemporaries · 1991 · ISBN 9780606053525
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Books · 1991 · ISBN 9780072435177
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage · 1984 · ISBN 9780840377074
  • The House On Mango Street · Random House · 1984 · ISBN 9780679735564
  • The House on Mango Street · Vintage Books · 1984 · ISBN 9780800052607
  • The House on Mango Street · Arte Publico Press · 1983 · ISBN 9780934770200
  • House On Mango Street · ISBN 9781112742088
  • House on Mango Street · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ISBN 9780394265261

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