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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel) The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse () is a novel by the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, first published in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War. Its 1918 English translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan became the best-selling novel in the U.S in 1919 according to "Publishers Weekly", who hailed it as "a superbly human story told by a genius". The novel was included in the list of 100 best novels of