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For a fuller statement regarding them, see the last pages of the Introduction. The Vocabulary contains the more irregular verb-forms, and it has also descriptions of the important places and biographies of the noted men and women that are mentioned in the texts. The editors offer these Spanish Short Stories as suitable material to be read immediately after a beginners' book.
Her later works are marred by extreme religiosity and a growing habit of scolding. The proud, stern Castilian; the gentle, pleasure-loving Andalusian; the Catalán, alert and practical; the light-hearted, turbulent Valencian; and the plodding, dreamy Galician, all these differ as do the lands in which they dwell.
The first part gives simple grammatical questions. The second contains idiomatic expressions to be committed to memory and to be used in the formation of sentences. The third part gives questions on the subject matter of the story which are to be answered in Spanish. And the fourth contains connected sentences to be translated from English into Spanish.
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.
His descriptions and delineations of character show that he is a close observer, and that he has a wide knowledge of human life. His novels present an optimistic view of life, though his pictures and characters are not always bright. He is a popular writer both at home and abroad. Many of his novels have been translated into different European languages.
Her stories usually have a romantic framework of passion and intrigue that is always unreal and often dull; but within this framework, almost in the nature of digressions, there are pictures of home life among the lowly Andalusian peasants that are charming in their simple, refined realism.
Y will venture to send you this one stanza of Lope de Vega: Carlos Estuardo soy, Que siendo amor mi guía, Al cielo de España voy Por ver mi Estrella María. »There are Comedians once á week come to the Palace, where under á Great Canopy the Queen and the Infanta sit in the middle, our Princeps and D. Carlos on the Queen's right hand, the king and the little Cardinal on the Infantas left hand.»
Her versatility and just claim to her high position are emphasized by the ease with which she assumes her own rank at the close of the play.
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