Spanish & Portuguese

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the...

This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Spanish and in English translation. Including stories by Fuentes, Molinas, Marquez and Cortazar, this volume gives a...

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438149Author World Language Institute SpainFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams)...

Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.About the AuthorPedro Calderon de la...

Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from...

This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's...

This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g

Edited and translated by John C. Lapp, this edition of Le Cid for performance and study includes an introduction, which interprets the contemporary political, social, and romantic themes that give this tragedy its complex, interwoven structure. Also...

Emilia Pardo Bazan, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified for her embracement of naturalism and her robust feminist stance. When Insolacion was published in 1889 it...

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time ever, Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The...

Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492663613Author Manuel Chaves NogalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)...

This volume offers a fresh translation of a generous selection of Lorca's suites, a body of work that Federico Garcia Lorca left largely unpublished upon his death in 1936. Composed between 1920 to 1923, these poems are closest in spirit and technique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498047159Author Frances Minto EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498009386Author Martin Andrew Sharp HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882528561Author Julia B JimenezFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 753g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497954557Author James Russell LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512800517Author Isaac GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 562Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625591Author Rainer HansheFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498057288Author Charles GayarreFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498026185Author Frances Minto EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 422g

Selected by Guernica magazine as an "Editors' Picks: Best of 2013"Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882528431Author Mary G BergFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541698Author Ram�n EspejoFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 703g

This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498112611Author Miguel De CervantesFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498032599Author Katherine Lee BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 440g

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498009225Author Rudolph SchevillFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 372g

In this fourth volume of Joseph E. Gillet's monumental study, Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolome De Torres Naharro, all students of Renaissance drama will find a wealth of material on the origins of the modern European theater. Torres Naharro...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498018678Author Jerome HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498066365Author Henry BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494131562Author Miguel De CervantesFormat HardbackPage Count 548Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 898g

Carefully and judiciously edited by Barrick, the Tercera Celestina is a rare piece of Spanish prose fiction, a literary masterpiece, and a mine of linguistic and proverbial materials.Book InformationISBN 9780812276022Author Gaspar Gomez de ToledoFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995396142Author S BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Cyberworld PublishingPublisher Cyberworld PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This bilingual anthology brings together a collection of Spanish entremeses, the comic interludes that were performed between the acts of a comedia. Penned by authors such as Lope de Rueda, Cervantes, Calderón, Quevedo, and Quiñones de Benavente, many of...

Rewriting Franco's Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory proposes a new reading of some of the most culturally significant and closely studied works of Spanish memory fiction from the past seventy years. It examines the influence of...