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Aris & Phillips - Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

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Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

Lunati: Rainy Days
The rich and diversified women's writing in the post-Franco period is amply illustrated in this engaging collection of short stories dating from 1983-1993. Rainy Days gathers together, for the first time in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, some ...
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Baroja: The Road to Perfection
edited and translated by Walter Borenstein
The Road to Perfection (Camino de Perfección) was written in 1901 and published the following year. It marked a pivotal point in Pío Baroja's development as a writer and thinker. It tells the story of Fernando Ossorio, a young man who makes a spiritual and physical journey through parts of central Spain. At the start of the book, Baroja narrates and guides Ossorio before leaving him to his own resources. On this epic journey ...
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Miro: The Leper Bishop
edited and translated by Walter Borenstein
Gabriel Francisco Miró Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miró was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesús" in The Leper Bishop. Miró studied Law, first at the University of Valencia, then at Granada, from which he graduated in 1900. He married in 1901, at the age ...
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Francisco de Quevedo: Dreams and Discourses Quevedo: Dreams and Discourses
Britton, R. K.
The Sueños is one of the most controversial, witty and fantastic works of early 17th century Spanish literature. The five Dreams minutely analyse stupidity, ignorance and evil, as these could be found in contemporary society. The work's ...
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Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems
translated and edited by Paul Burns and Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the ...
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Lorca: Blood Wedding
edited and translated by Paul Burns and Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres
Federico García Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more literary life eventually paid off. Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre)was written in 1932, and was first performed in Madrid in March 1933. It proved to be the popular and critical success ...
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Jose de Espronceda: The Student of Salamanca

In this impressive 'verse legend' Espronceda creates an original interpretation of the famous Don Juan legend whereby he produces a Romantic 'counter-text' which gives voice to what we now recognise as a central part of the modern philosophical condition: ...
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The Scripted Self
Christie, Ruth
The period since 1975 in Spain, following years of dictatorship, has seen a remarkable surge of creative cultural activity. The chosen texts are studied in terms of the possibilities and limits of writing the self. 208p (Aris and Phillips 1995)
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: The Holding (La Barraca)
Translated by Lester Clark and Eric Farrington Birchall with Introduction and Notes by Patricia McDermott
This passionate and moving story of social injustice, violence and revenge, set in the Valencian huerta, has become the classic text of Spanish regional realism. Blasco Ibáñez, the 'Spanish Zola', dramatically confronts one of the great social ...
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Lope de Vega: Fuente Ovejuna
Text, Translation, Introduction and Notes by Victor Dixon~
Fuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military ...
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