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3) Only in Spain: a foot-stomping, firecracker of a memoir about food, Flamenco, and falling in love
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A sparky, witty and thoroughly enjoyable memoir of a girl who fell in love with flamenco dance and with Spain.
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Great books of the Western world volume 27
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xix, 509 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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245 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces their relationship. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
9) Don Quixote
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Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. In the story, a gentleman named Mr. Alonso Quixano reads too many chivalric romances and consequently loses his sanity. Deciding to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, he recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs...
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Español
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Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of terms that will help readers get to know Cervantes' language. This beautiful hardbound edition is 5...
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295 pages : illustrations, map. ; 20 cm
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Chris, eternal optimist and itinerant sheep shearer, moves with his wife Ana to a mountain farm in Las Alpujarras, an oddball region in south of Spain. Misadventures gleefully unfold as Chris discovers that the owner has no intention of leaving and meets their neighbours, an engaging mix of peasant farmers and shepherds, travellers and ex-pats.
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend.
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29 audio discs (37 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story satirizes the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes' day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet, determined to become a knight-errant and roam the world righting wrongs. Offering the governorship of an island, he persuades the practical Sancho Panza to become his squire....
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240 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"One hundred kilometres from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the centre of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. This unique community drew British author Dan Hancox to Spain, and here for the first time he recounts the fascinating story of villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and have, since the 1980s, made it the foundation of a cooperative way of life....
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Este libro para niños y jóvenes es una adaptación en forma de cómicas de la famosa obra clásica de Cervantes sobre las aventuras y las desventuras de Don Quijote de la Mancha y su escudero, Sancho Panza.
This book for children and youths is an adaptation in comic-book style of the famous classical work of Cervantes about the adventures and misadventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his squire Sancho Panza.
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