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Aris & Phillips - Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

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	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Tirso de Molina: Damned for Despair edited and translated with an introduction by Nicholas G. Round Fray Gabriel TÚllez, who wrote under the pen-name of Tirso de Molina, is the third great dramatist (with Lope de Vega and Calderªn) of the 17th century Spanish theatre. If Lope heads all the rest for sheer inventive vitality and Calderªn for well-wrought poetic and intellectual substance, Tirso is supreme as a creator of character. Best known for his Trickster of Seville, the original Don Juan play, he produced others no less remarkable, of which ... Paperback. Reprinting - orders recorded. Price GB £18.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics The Long Oar Translated from Catalan by Julie Flanagan~ Ruyra was in the vanguard of the Catalan modernist generation as they constructed a new literary model after 1860 when the Catalan language became the vehicle of cultural nationalism. He has been called the 'prince of Catalan prose'. This is a sea story whose epic quality has invited comparisons with Homer and Tolstoy and, in its treatment of the sea as reference in a psychological voyage, with Melville, Conrad and Hemingway. El rem de trenta ... Paperback. Price GB £14.95 Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Cervantes: Exemplary Novels 3 with an introduction, translation and notes by Michael Thacker~ The Jealous Old Man from Extremadura follows the story of Felipo de Carrizales, as he returns from the New world as an old but a wealthy man. He chooses a young, innocent wife, Leonora, to provide him with an heir. His jealousy causes him to lock her away, where she is never to have contact with the male sex. This awakens the curiousilty of a young rake, Loaysa, who successfully breaches the house and proceeds to use flattery and guile on young ... Paperback. Price GB £11.95 Hardback. Price GB £35.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels edited by Barry Ife and Jonathan Thacker Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes. Barry Ife's re-written authoritative general introduction explores specific issues raised by the Exemplary Novels as a collection, Cervantes's interest in the mixing of genre and ... Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £30.00 Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £50.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Buero Vallejo: A Dreamer for the People edited by Michael Thompson Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958. In this history play, the first of a remarkable series, culminating in La detonación (The ... Paperback. Price GB £15.00 Hardback. Price GB £35.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes English translation by David Rowland (1586) Edited and with introduction and notes by Keith Whitlock and Preface by Victor Dixon Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic exposé of sixteenth century Spanish society, and especially the Church. Rowland's translation exploited the propaganda potential of the text at a time when England and Spain drifted into open ... Paperback. Price GB £15.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Sender: Requiem for a Spanish Peasant edited and translated by Graham Whittaker Ramón José Sender Gracés was born on 3rd February 1901. He was a prolific writer, who published a vast quantity of novels, stories, plays, essays, poetry and articles throughout his life. He wrote Réquiem por un campesino español during one week in 1952, with the intention that it be part of a collection of short stories. That book never materialised, but Sender's novella was published by Aquelarre in Mexico in ... Paperback. Price GB £15.00 Hardback. Price GB £35.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Galdós: Doña Perfecta edited and translated by Graham Whittaker Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain. Doña Perfecta (1876) was Galdos' first novel delving into the social world of middle-class Spain in the 19th ... Paperback. Price GB £18.00 Hardback. Price GB £35.00
	Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics Spanish Ballads with English Verse Translations with English verse translations and notes by Roger Wright he Spanish ballad tradition is one of the largest and most colourful in Europe, as reflected in the present collection of 71 of the best examples. They include tales of love and adventure, ancient legends such as those of Rodrigo the last Visigothic king, the battle of Roncesvalles and Bernardo del Carpio, stirring accounts of events of Spanish History such as the life of the Cid and the reign of Pedro "the cruel", as well as the "frontier ... Paperback. Price GB £18.00

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