Jose Marti tenia un gran talento para la escritura y se destaco en muchas de las manifestaciones de este arte. Fue periodista, poeta, ensayista, dramaturgo e incluso escribio una novela, pero en lo que mas utilizo su talento y sus energias fue, sin duda alguna, en la causa de la liberacion cubana. Jamas ceso su pluma de plasmar en papel sus pensamientos libertadores, su ideal de una Cuba libre gobernada por el pueblo cubano y de pedirle a sus compatriotas que nunca perdieran el valor ni la esperanza. No les pedia odiar a Espana sino la opresion recibida por ella y, sobre todo, odiar su propia falta de caracter la cual, a final de cuentas, era el unico impedimento para recuperar lo que era suyo: su libertad y su identidad como pueblo. En este libro se recogen los trabajos que para este fin escribio Marti desde 1887 hasta 1892.
 
José Martí had a great talent for writing and excelled in many forms of writing. He was a journalist, poet, essayist, playwright, and even wrote a novel, but what he devoted his talent and energy to most was, without a doubt, the cause of Cuban liberation. His pen never ceased to capture on paper his liberating thoughts, his ideal of a free Cuba governed by the Cuban people, and he urged his compatriots to never lose courage or hope. He didn't ask them to hate Spain, but rather the oppression they had suffered under it, and, above all, to hate their own lack of character, which, ultimately, was the only impediment to recovering what was theirs: their freedom and their identity as a people. This book collects the works that Martí wrote for this purpose from 1887 to 1892.