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Spanish is Fun, Third Edition (Book 1)

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

The Nobel Prize–winning poet’s most popular work When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the... (more)

Marina (Nomadas)

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Larousse Concise Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary (Larousse Concise)

Larousse Concise Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary (Larousse Concise)

The Larousse Concise Spanish-English / English-Spanish Dictionary is the ideal companion for those who wish to learn and become fluent in contemporary Spanish. With 90,000 references and 120 translations, it has most all of the words its users are looking for. This book is more comprehensive than the pocket or mini dictionary but is still compact in size. This new edition offers extensive, up-to-date coverage of... (more)

El Palacio de La Medianoche

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Ambientada en la Calcuta de los años treinta, El Palacio de la Medianoche comienza una noche oscura en la que un teniente inglés lucha por salvar las vidas de dos niños de una amenaza impensable. A pesar de las insoportables lluvias del monzón y el terror que lo asedia en cada esquina, el joven británico logra ponerlos a salvo, pero no sin perder su propia vida... Años más tarde, cuando los dos niños, Ben y... (more)

La Ciudad Y Los Perros

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps Vargas Llosa’s most violent book. Set in a military school in Lima, where an unwritten code of survival of the fittest is imposed. Here, he focuses on the brutality of military life and the strong pyramidal hierarchy that mirrors Peruvian society, where violence, exploitation and human degradation are the guarantee so that each layer of the pyramid maintains its... (more)

The Spanish Civil War: Revised Edition (Modern Library Paperbacks)

The Spanish Civil War: Revised Edition (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by Hugh Thomas

A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein,... (more)

Last Evenings on Earth

by Roberto Bolano

The first story collection by Roberto Bolaño —"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolaño's story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the... (more)

Ciudad de Las Bestias, La

by Isabel Allende

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Rhymes and Legends (Selection) / Rimas y Leyendas (seleccion): A Dual-Language Book (Dover Books on Language)

Rhymes and Legends (Selection) / Rimas y Leyendas (seleccion): A Dual-Language Book (Dover Books on Language)

by Gustavo Adolfo Be?cquer

Depicting the beauty of the written word, the handsome books in this series present an assortment of universal literature from the drama of Shakespeare to the words of many well-known authors from the first half of the 20th century. Demostrando la belleza del arte de las letras, los libros elegantes en esta colección reúnen a los grandes clásicos de la literatura, desde el drama de Shakespeare hasta los autores... (more)

Cuentos españoles

Unique format offers 13 great stories in Spanish—from classics by Cervantes and Alarcon to contemporary works by Borges and Goytisolo. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Includes Spanish-to English vocabulary, biographical-critical introductions, more.

Seven Nights

by Jorge L. Borges

The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges’ erudition on the following topics: Dante’s The Divine Comedy , Nightmares , Thousand and One Dreams , Buddhism , Poetry , The Kabbalah , and Blindness .

Selected Verse: Revised Edition

by Federico García Lorca, Christopher Maurer

Lorca's essential poems, in an attractive bilingual edition This new edition of Selected Verse incorporates changes made to Federico García Lorca's Collected Poems , and will be an essential addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf. In this bilingual edition, Lorca's poetic range comes clearly into view, from the playful Suites and stylized evocations of Andalusia to the utter gravity and mystery of the final... (more)

The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

by Miguel Leon-Portilla

In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.

Cuentos Completos 2

by Julio Cortazar

The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-in Edition) : Notes on a Latin American Journey

The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-in Edition) : Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ann Wright, Ernesto Che Guevara

These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. In January 1952, Che set out from Buenos Aires to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorcycle. He encounters an extraordinary range of people -- from native Indians to copper miners, lepers and tourists -- experiencing hardships and adventures that informed much of his later life. This expanded, new edition from... (more)

Residence on Earth

by Pablo Neruda

New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic... (more)

The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre

The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre

by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most famous work, "The Labyrinth of Solitude," a beautifully written and... (more)

Abril rojo/Red April

by Santiago Roncagliolo

In Ayacucho, Peru at the beginning of Holy week in 2000, public prosecutor Felix Chacaltana Saldívar, a lonesome, scared, poetry loving man set in his old traditions, is forced to face the investigation of a horrible murder. The crime is the beginning of a series of mysterious deaths, and through his investigation, the public prosecutor does not discard the responsibility of the terrorist organization Sendereo... (more)

Webster's New World Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English English/Spanish

Webster's New World Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English English/Spanish

by Mike Gonzalez

Compiled in collaboration with a team of expert linguists, the Webster's New World concise bilingual dictionaries are the perfect choice for beginning students and advanced speakers as well. Comprehensive and authoritative, yet clear and concise, the dictionaries offer a full array of features, as well as wide-ranging coverage of current expressions. Long-standing favorites in hardcover, the dictionaries will... (more)

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