| A Second Spanish Reader: A Dual-Language Book Contributor(s): Appelbaum, Stanley (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486472353 ISBN-13: 9780486472355 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers students the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. Selections from poetry, plays, and stories include works by Gabriela Mistral, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Simon Bolivar, Francisco de Quevedo, and other prominent Spanish-language writers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Spanish |
| Dewey: 468.642 |
| LCCN: 2009010094 |
| Series: Dover Dual Language Spanish |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.32" W x 8.54" (0.59 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. It introduces such authors as Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Alarc n, Unamuno, and Dar o, and such works as El busc n, Cartas marruecas, El estudiante de Salamanca, and Santa. Contents include plays, lyric and narrative verse, and prose of many kinds -- fiction, philosophy, autobiography, and more -- for a generous sampling of the Spanish language's extraordinarily diverse and rich literary history. The selections begin at around 1550, at the outset of the 100 years known as the Golden Age. Excerpts from the era's major genres and authors include the works of three prominent playwrights, plus pastoral and picaresque novels, religious meditations, and a report from the New World. Three outstanding exponents of the Enlightenment appear here, in addition to contributions from the major Romantic playwrights and poets, several Realist and Naturalist novelists, and the pillars of the Generation of 1898. One-third of the selections are the works of Spanish-American writers. Accurate and up to date, this new translation by Stanley Appelbaum features a detailed Introduction with background on all of the writers and their works. |