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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

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Cornelia Frances Bates, Katharine Lee Bates

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Myths & Legends

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ángel Andrade, Rafael Romero Barros and Manuel García y Rodríguez. Spanish legends retold by the poet who is to Spain what Poe is to America - the moonbeam, the green eyes, the organist of Seville who plays after his death. Bécquer died at thirty-four and was famous only afterwards. This edition is bound with sixty plates of painting from 1835–1925, among them Rafael Romero Barros, Christian Skredsvig and Carlos de Haes, in the translati...

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Translated by

Katharine Lee Bates, Cornelia Frances Bates

In "Romantic Legends of Spain," Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer weaves a rich tapestry of folklore and myth, capturing the essence of Spanish culture through a series of captivating narratives. His literary style blends poetic prose with deeply emotive storytelling, reminiscent of the Romantic tradition, characterized by its emphasis on individual emotion and nature. Bécquer's legends are not just mere tales; they explore existential themes and the supernatural, revealing the psychological struggle...

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Translated by

Katharine Lee Bates, Cornelia Frances Bates

In 'Romantic Legends of Spain,' Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer masterfully weaves a tapestry of Spanish folklore, blending the supernatural with the deeply human experience. This collection consists of evocative tales that explore themes of love, death, and the ethereal, all delivered in Bécquer's hallmark lyrical style. Rich in imagery and emotion, the stories are imbued with the essence of Romanticism, reflecting the cultural and artistic movements of 19th-century Spain while simultaneously dr...

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Washington Irving

The Alhambra, a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards, was published in May 1832. Consisting of a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his "Spanish Sketch Book." In 1851 Irving wrote the "Author's Revised Edition," also titled Tales of the Alhambra.

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John Hay, W. Somerset Maugham

I've always been a fan of nineteenth-century travel narratives in English. They make comparisons that reveal more about England or the US than they do about the country visited. They don't avoid showing their awe or their disgust. They're resolutely opinionated and unabashedly judgmental. In other words, their perspective makes the book. In spite of all that, someone reading these narratives today can learn a lot about the Spain of the time: history, politics, customs, economic conditions ...

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Washington Irving

Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington IrvingThe book combines description, myth and narrations of the Spanish palace's towers and history up its destruction by the French in 1812, and the further damage caused by an earthquake in 1821.

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Washington Irving

A collection of short works by Washington Irving, which includes the following: The Journey, Palace of the Alhambra, Note on Morisco Architecture, Important Negotiations. The Author Succeeds to the Throne of Boabdil, Inhabitants of the Alhambra, The Hall of Ambassadors, The Jesuits' Library, Alhamar, The Founder of the Alhambra, Yusef Abul Hagig, The Finisher of the Alhambra, The Mysterious Chambers, Panorama from the Tower of Comares, The Truant, The Balcony, The Adventure of the Mason, T...

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Vincente Blasco Ibáñez,Miguel de Cervantes

A collection of nine books with an active table of contents.Authors and works include:Vicente Blasco Ibáñez:The Dead CommandThe Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseLuna BenamorMayflowerNostrum (Our Sea)The Shadow of the CathedralWoman TriumphantMiquel de CervantesDon QuixoteFirst Love: And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life

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Anon E. Mouse, Compiled by Maria Monteiro, Illustrated by HAROLD COPPING

In this volume you will find 13 illustrated Popular Tales from the Basque region of Spain. Here you will find tales like Aquelarre, Arguiduna, The Song of Lamia, the Prophecy of Lara, the Virgin of the Five Towns in which mermaids, heroes, magical horns and ghosts abound.If you have ever travelled through the province of Galicia in North Western Spain, you can’t fail to notice the Celtic influences in the region’s art and culture. So it is therefore not surprising to also f...

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Washington Irving

It is not possible to forget Washington Irving in the Alhambra. With a single volume, the simple, gentle, kindly American man of letters became no less a figure in the Moor's Red Palace than Boabdil and Lindaraxa of whom he wrote. And yet, never perhaps did a book make so unconscious a bid for popularity. Irving visited Granada in 1828. He returned the following year, when the Governor's apartments in the Alhambra were lent to him as lodgings. There he spent several weeks, his love for the...

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Washington Irving

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Tor Classics

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.Rip's a good natured loser, trying to be happy despite a bad marriage and major poverty...until the day he helps a stranger in need, winds up at a weird picnic in the woods, parties too hardy, falls asleep-Because when Rip wakes...

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Washington Irving

In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman, is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball, and "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his ...