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This book offers the complete text of three novellas, along with vocabulary and explanatory notes to make them fully accessible to learners of Spanish from post-GCSE level and upwards. The introduction provides background on the author and her position in Spanish cultural, political and literary history, and on the history of feminism in Spain.

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After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of tragic events.

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This is the first ever critical edition of Mientras los hombres mueren, the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It chronicles the consequences of war on women and children: loss of menfolk at the front, physical deprivation, carpet bombing of cities. -- .

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A collection of satirical articles by the influential nineteenth-century Spanish journalist Mariano Jose de Larra. -- .

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This is the first critical editionBiografia de un Cimarron (Biography of a Runaway Slave) is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of independence. -- .

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One of the most famous plays by the leading Spanish dramatist of the Golden Age, El Caballero de Olmedo is made accessible to English readers through a context-setting introduction, and helpful notes to scenes and difficult passages. -- .

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Miguel Delibes' inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 portrayed "El camino" (1950) as a distant precursor of the emergent Green movement. This text comprises an introductory essay discussing Green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy.

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An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega's best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student. -- .

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This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. -- .

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Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. -- .

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The Spanish novella La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades was published anonymously in Alcala de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel. -- .

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A poem-by-poem guide to Romancero gitano, Federico Garcia Lorca's poetic masterpiece, containing comprehensive commentaries, introduction to relevant background material and select critical bibliographies for each poem. To be used alongside Ramsden's critical edition of Romancero gitano. -- .

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A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate. -- .

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Cronica del alba, is the first in an autobiographical series of nine novels by one of the most famous twentieth- century Spanish novelists, Ramon Sender. -- .

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Lorca is one of the outstanding poets of Spanish literature, and apart perhaps from his trilogy of stage tragedies, "Romancero Gitano" is his most celebrated work: innovatory, sophisticated, difficult and uniquely popular. This title considers Lorca's 'double break with the past' and focuses on the "Romancero Gitano".

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This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading. -- .

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This collection spans Cortazar's writing career, from "La Noche Boca Arriba" and "Final del Juego" (1956), to "Recortes de Prensa" and "Queremos Tanto a Glenda" (1981) and "Botella al Mar" (1982). This edition contains an introduction, notes, a selected vocabulary and a discussion section.

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Presents an alternative reading of this seminal collection of poems, in English for the first time. -- .

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A selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period followed by guided and close readings of each poem. -- .

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This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdos' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siecle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues associated with late-romantic thought. -- .

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This is the first comprehensive critical edition of Pablo Neruda's internationally renowned and widely studies collection of poems Viente poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada to appear in English. -- .

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In "Yerma", the second of his trilogy of rural dramas, Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The Spanish text is supported by an introduction and critical notes in English.

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Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.