Dona Berta (Spanish Edition)

Dona Berta (Spanish Edition) PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543112566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Obra maestra de la novela corta. Do�a Berta, �ltimo y anciano miembro de la estirpe de los Rondaliegos, recibe la inesperada visita de un pintor que no s�lo le devuelve la evocaci�n de dulces y terribles recuerdos de juventud, sino la posibilidad de reparar una lejan�sima culpa. Un delirio quijotesco de extraordinaria fuerza dram�tica y belleza literaria.

Dona Berta (Spanish Edition)

Dona Berta (Spanish Edition) PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543112566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Book Description
Obra maestra de la novela corta. Do�a Berta, �ltimo y anciano miembro de la estirpe de los Rondaliegos, recibe la inesperada visita de un pintor que no s�lo le devuelve la evocaci�n de dulces y terribles recuerdos de juventud, sino la posibilidad de reparar una lejan�sima culpa. Un delirio quijotesco de extraordinaria fuerza dram�tica y belleza literaria.

Doña Berta

Doña Berta PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: Cervantes
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 104

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Doña Berta, Cuervo, Superchería

Doña Berta, Cuervo, Superchería PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 210

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The Nineteenth-century Spanish Story

The Nineteenth-century Spanish Story PDF Author: Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9780729302135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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The Tequila Worm

The Tequila Worm PDF Author: Viola Canales
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 030743401X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio in McAllen, Texas, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quinceañera, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. It’s a different mundo, but one where Sofia’s traditions take on new meaning and illuminate her path.

His Only Son

His Only Son PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation—and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity—who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacio’s wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son—but is it Bonifacio’s? In the accompanying novella, Doña Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor, but well-born woman, forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life. While largely unknown outside of Spain, Leopoldo Alas was one of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain and employed his satirical talents to powerful and humorous effect in fiction. His Only Son was Alas’s second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful characters—irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fates—are yet multidimensional individuals, often conscious of their own weaknesses and stymied by their very yearnings to be more than the parts they find themselves playing.

Ten Tales

Ten Tales PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"The short stories explore themes that concern the interior person, the inner being. "A Day Laborer" tells of a liberal intellectual who can identify with exploited laborers because he himself has been exploited; "Change of Light" describes the spiritual peace that comes to a writer as a result of physical blindness; "The Golden Rose" shows through a series of contrasts - good and evil, heaven and earth, light and darkness - that virtue and sacrifice are rewarded; "Queen Margaret" chronicles the misery of failed opera singers who find happiness after leaving the short-lived glory of the theater; "Torso" relates the faithfulness of a servant who is rejected by a young master; "The Burial of the Sardine," with echoes of Francisco de Goya, represents the ephemeral nature of joy as experienced during Shrovetide in a city dominated by the clergy; and "Two Scholars" recounts how envy and vanity affect a personal relationship."--BOOK JACKET.

Dona Berta

Dona Berta PDF Author: Leopoldo Alas Clarin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Departing at Dawn

Departing at Dawn PDF Author: Gloria Lisé
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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“[A] quiet, powerful novel” of a young woman caught in the chaos of Argentina in the mid-1970s, when speaking against the government could mean death (Publishers Weekly). March 23, 1976. Berta watches horrified as her lover, a union organizer named Atilio, is thrown from a window to his death by soldiers. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d’état and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. And even though she was never a part of Atilio’s union efforts, Berta is on a list to be “disappeared.” Fleeing to relatives in the countryside, she becomes part of the family she knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who blasts music from an old record player; Uncle Nepomuceno, who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon; and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day and night. But soon enough, Berta realizes she must run even further to save her life—and those she has come to love. With a prose that is light yet penetrating, Gloria Lisé has written “a beautifully simple, poetic story of solidarity and love, with memorable characters painted in the tender strokes of a watercolor” (Luisa Valenzuela, author of Black Novel with Argentines).

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach PDF Author: Berta De Llano
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1731641826
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Children's Storybook Features: • 32 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Ages 4-8, PreK-Grade 3 Level Readers, Lexile 660L • Simple, easy-to-read pages with vibrant illustrations • Features side-by-side bilingual text to develop vocabulary • Includes after-reading crafts, writing prompts, and comprehension questions The Magic Of Reading: Introduce your child to the world of literature with this inspiring folktale, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach. This 32-page book features striking illustrations that excite kids and bilingual text to create a love for reading in two languages. Hands On Learning: Martina is a beautiful young cockroach on a quest to find true love. Follow her as she takes her grandmother’s advice on how to find the perfect husband and learns how she deserves to be treated! Bilingual Learning: More than just a heartwarming folktale, this children’s book features side-by-side bilingual text in English and Spanish, as well as many before and after-reading activities like crafts, comprehension questions, and writing prompts. Leveled Reading: This early reading book engages preschoolers to third graders with leveled reading text, while telling an enlightening story that fosters reading comprehension and teaches new vocabulary in two languages. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.