B. Traven

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Bridge in the Jungle

    The Bridge in the Jungle is a novel by the late author B Traven....

  • The Carreta

    From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multi-volume "Jungle Novel" series.An astonishing portrait of Mexican life in the early twentieth century, the story follows a you...

  • The Creation of the Sun and the Moon

    Creation of the Sun and the Moon is B.Traven's retelling of the beautiful Mexican legend of a young Indian hero who saves the world by rekindling the sun after it's been extinguished by evil spirits, from the reclusive author of The Treasure of Sierr...

  • White Rose

  • To the Honorable Miss S... And other Stories

  • Night Visitor and Other Stories

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    Here are ten of B. Traven's remarkable short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend....

  • Death Ship

  • The Death Ship : The Story of an American Sailor

  • The Night Visitor: And Other Stories

    The Night Visitor is a collection of stories by the late author B Traven....



  • Government

    Government is the first installment of B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, a series of six books detailing the oppression and subsequent uprising of the Mexican Revolution.The story follows Don Gabriel, a bureaucratic official in an isolated governm...

  • March To The Monteria

    March to the Monteria is the third volume in B. Traven's "Jungle Novels," a series of six books that depict the lives and injustices of the Mexican Indians prior the Revolution.Known for his cult classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, made into a ...

  • Trozas

    This first English translation of Trozas, the fourth of Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, brings to completion his epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. A fine and powerful novel...stark in its drama, steamy in its setting, acidic in its irony...

  • Rebellion Of The Hanged

    The Rebellion of the Hanged is the fifth book in legendary author B. Traven’s multi-volume retelling of the Mexican Revolution.Originally published in 1936, Traven captures the struggle for freedom of the enslaved Indians against labor agents in th...

  • Cotton Pickers

  • Cotton-Pickers

    The first novel from the elusive author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.Set in the 1920s in Mexico, B. Traven’s The Cotton-Pickers tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs--on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry...

  • General from the Jungle

    “Readers who ignore the genius of B. Traven do so at their peril.” - The New York TimesB Traven’s Jungle Novels comprises six books written during the 1930s that observe the poor conditions of the Mexican Indians living in the southern state of...

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    A CULT MASTERPIECE -- THE ADVENTURE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED JOHN HUSTON'S CLASSIC FILM, BY THE ELUSIVE AUTHOR WHO WAS A MODEL FOR THE HERO OF ROBERTO BOLA'O'S 2666.Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born Otto Feig...

  • To The Honorable Miss S....and other stories

    Here are 15 stories by the author who later became famous under the name B. Traven, written during the years when - as Ret Marut - he was an itinerant actor and journalist in Germany before and during World War 1. Most of these stories first appeared...

  • Aslan Norval

    B. Traven’s last novel, first published in 1960 but never before released in English, features a larger-than-life heroine: Ms. Aslan Norval, an American millionairess with Hollywood roots and political schemes up her sleeveThough Aslan Norval is we...



  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Unabridged

    A towering adventure story set in the wilds of Mexico after the First World War, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is B. Traven's much-beloved and thrilling tale of three desperate men who set out to make their fortune in the gold-filled Sierra Madr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

B. Traven has published 20 books.

B. Traven does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Unabridged, was published in January 2023.

The first book by B. Traven, The Bridge in the Jungle, was published in January 1970.

No. B. Traven does not write books in series.
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