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The Crown of Fire / La Corona de Fuego (Short Stories for Studying Spanish)

This is a dual language short story: the fourth in a series of traditional short stories from Spain, published in both Spanish and English on the same page, designed to provide the student studying either language with an engaging vehicle for language learning and practice.Improve your Spanish while enjoying a traditional Castilian tale of the temptations of love which tantalize even the most pious among us. It illustrates clearly the dangers of revenge when, instead of being served cold, it is served blazing hot!Dual-language books are an ideal way to gain mastery of Spanish language by trying to first read the story in Spanish, and then looking at the ‘answers’ in the English translation at the same time. Once your Spanish reaches a higher level, these stories can be read by switching between the Spanish and English versions every paragraph (for example: read the first paragraph in English to get the idea, then only read the second paragraph in Spanish, then go back to the English
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Collection of Cuentos, Volume A (Short Stories for Studying Spanish)

This is a collection of dual language short stories with a bonus story included that is not available for sale separately! They are all traditional short stories from Spain, published in both Spanish and English on the same page, designed to provide the student studying either language with an engaging vehicle for language learning and practice. The stories are designed to create an enjoyable entry point into foreign language study (contrasted with the traditional drudgery of grammar textbooks or books of mindless, mundane exercises) while being priced so as to make this entry extremely affordable. In fact, this collection is priced such that you are buying just 3 stories at regular price and receiving the 4th one for just a penny per language!Improve your Spanish while learning about several legends from ancient Spain. The first is a sad story that shows how even hundreds of years ago crossing paths with the wrong clown at a political event had potentially disastrous consequences.
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Heath’s Modern Language Series; Spanish Short Stories (Spanish Edition)

FROM PREFACE: “These Spanish Short Stories are, for the most part, realistic pictures of the manners and customs of modern Spain, written by masters of Spanish prose. All were written in the second half of the nineteenth century or in the first decade of the twentieth,—except the story by Larra, which was written about seventy-five years ago. And all describe recent conditions,—except the tale, partly historical and partly legendary, by Bécquer, which goes back to the invasion of Spain by the French under Napoleon in the early years of the nineteenth century; the story by Larra, which, however, is nearly as true of Castile to-day as it was when written; and Trueba’s story, which is partly legendary, partly symbolic, and partly realistic. The stories by Bécquer and Pérez Galdós contain incidents that are supernatural, and those by Fernán Caballero and Alarcón have romantic settings that are highly improbable; but all the stories are, in the main, true to the every-day life
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