De Aller-Bedste Bøger - over 12 mio. danske og engelske bøger
Levering: 1 - 2 hverdage

Bøger i Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics serien

Filter
Filter
Sorter efterSorter Serie rækkefølge
  • af Mark D. Johnston
    608,95 kr.

    Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.

  •  
    2.033,95 kr.

    The Suenos is one of the most controversial, witty and fantastic works of early 17th century Spanish literature. The five Dreams minutely analyse stupidity, ignorance and evil, as these could be found in contemporary society.

  •  
    613,95 kr.

    Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover.

  • af Harley Erdman
    398,95 - 2.043,95 kr.

    Tirso de Molina's Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedy about an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety in order to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by her father.

  • af Joaquim Ruyra
    543,95 kr.

    Ruyra was in the vanguard of the Catalan modernist generation as they constructed a new literary model after 1860 when the Catalan language became the vehicle of cultural nationalism. He has been called the 'prince of Catalan prose'.

  •  
    2.078,95 kr.

    A facing page translation of Emilia Pardo Bazan's classic novel

  • af Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres
    1.798,95 kr.

    Juan Ramon Jimenez, 1956 winner of the Nobel Prize, published Platero and I in 1914. Like Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland , Platero and I is a book not only for children, but for adults as well. It is an allegory of the deepest human emotions.

  •  
    2.033,95 kr.

    New translation of the thirteenth century account of the life and achievements of the tenth century Castillian leader Fernan Gonzalez and historical study of his life and of the historical background to the poem.

  •  
    748,95 kr.

    Tirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works.

  •  
    1.168,95 kr.

    Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain.

  • af Gabriel Francisco Miro Ferrer
    818,95 kr.

    Gabriel Francisco Miro Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miro was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesus" in The Leper Bishop .

  • af Elena Poniatowska
    688,95 kr.

    When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from Angelina Beloff.

  • af John E. Lyon
    613,95 kr.

    Written in the early 1920s, Lights of Bohemia is set in the twilight phase of Madrid's bohemian artistic life against the turbulent social and political background of events between 1900 and 1920.

  •  
    688,95 kr.

    Fuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military Order of Calatrava, by the peasants he had oppressed, and their subsequent solidarity under torture.

  •  
    528,95 kr.

    The story comes from the Second Book of Samuel and tells of the incestuous passion of Amnon, David's eldest son, for his half-sister, Tamar and the subsequent murder of Amnon by his brother Absolom. Amnon's lust is set in the context of complementary passions of ambition and revenge, reflected in Absolom and Tamar respectively.

  • - Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers
     
    443,95 kr.

    A new expanded edition of a collection of short stories by contemporary Spanish women writers, now with 14 authors.

  • - Poems by Ana Luisa Amaral
    af Ana Luisa Amaral
    2.033,95 kr.

    The first major collection of the poems of Ana Luisa Amaral to be published in English, considered to be one of the foremost Portuguese poets of her day. With a translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa.

  • af Derek W. Lomax & R. J. Oakley
    2.008,95 kr.

    It is astonishing that this is the first English translation of these Chronicles , as they are undoubtably amongst the finest produced in the Middle Ages and treat an important episode in the Hundred Years War.

  • af John Hodgkinson
    463,95 kr.

    One of the most powerful and sustained works in all medieval literature, without which no series could be considered complete. The Poem of My Cid deals with the exploits of the medieval Castilian warrior, beginning with the sorrow of his departure into exile and focusing on his determination to regain the favour of his king.

  • af Robert M. Fedorchek
    528,95 kr.

    Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote novels, short stories, essays and literary criticism.

  • af Barry W. Ife
    1.298,95 kr.

    Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes.

  • af Antonio Buero Vallejo
    683,95 kr.

    Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958.

  • af Gabriela Mistral, Paul Burns & Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres
    618,95 - 2.048,95 kr.

    Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English.

  • af J. Minett & John E. Lyon
    528,95 kr.

    One of Lorca's best known plays tells the story of a young peasant wife in rural Spain whose sole conscious desire is to embody what she regards as the natural, moral and social laws governing her life as a woman in motherhood.

  • af Lester Clark, Patricia McDermott & Eric Farrington Farrington Birchall
    523,95 kr.

    This passionate and moving story of social injustice, violence and revenge, set in the Valencian huerta, has become the classic text of Spanish regional realism.

  • af TIRSO DE MOLINA
    688,95 kr.

    Tirso de Molina was, with Lope de Vega and Calderon, one of the great dramatists of 17th century Spain, which produced a theatre as vital rich and as varied as its Elizabethan counterpart.

  •  
    586,95 kr.

    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, Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') is available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages.

  • - by Luis Velez de Guevara
     
    408,95 kr.

    This edition presents The Mountain Girl from La Vera (1613) for the first time in English. The extraordinary protagonist, Gila, calls herself a man, takes pride in doing things men do, and falls in love with a queen. Her betrayal by an army captain who she has humiliated leads to tragedy. Gila has been described as feminist, lesbian, queer, and transgender. It is a vibrant, relevant play and a great piece of theatre.

  •  
    613,95 kr.

    Premiered in 1981, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness in its examination of an area of Madrid equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as it had been under the Franco dictatorship. Contains a new critical introduction and language-teaching resources.