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Literature
La casa de Bernarda Alba
García Lorca, Federico
Fourth edition, with introduction by Andrés Amorós.
£4.85 p/b
La casa de Bernarda Alba
García Lorca, Federico
Twenty-fifth edition by Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero.
£3.75 p/b
Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero
Casariego Córdoba, Martín
‘Love is a lot of nonsense!’ thinks Juan, until he meets Sara. So when she suggests they steal the exam papers, how can he say no? An adventure and a love story.
£4.75 p/b
Saxo y rosas
Arregui, María
Germán is just an innocent bystander when a gang of skinheads arrive in the town square and attack a group of immigrants. But before he knows what is happening, he is being accused of a crime he did not commit and his relationship with his girlfriend, Raquel, is on the rocks. But then Magda, Raquel’s friend and the sister of one of skinheads, comes to his aid.
£4.75 p/b
Rebelde
Alonso, Manuel L.
Eduardo is an unhappy 17-year-old, disillusioned with an unfriendly world, until he meets Ana and Miguel, who restore his faith in human relationships.
£3.99 p/b
Buscando un lugar entre mujeres: buceo en la España de Carmen Martín Gaite
Carbayo Abengozar, M.
A feminist study of the writings of Carmen Martín Gaite, and in particular her representation of the role of women in society from the days of Franco to the 1990s.
£10.95 p/b
Historia de España (1936-1996) en la literatura española contemporánea
Díaz Arenas, Angel
A journey through Spanish history since the Civil War, as portrayed in recent Spanish literature.
£10.65 p/b
Yerma
García Lorca, Federico
Twenty-first edition, by Ildefonso-Manuel Gil.
£3.50 p/b
La hija de la fortuna
Allende, Isabel
Allende's latest hugely successful novel. Set in 19th-century Chile, it tells the story of an young girl, her stepmother and their imaginary (and magical) Indian maid.
£12.95 p/b
The Cambridge companion to modern Spanish culture
Gies, David T.
An anthology of essays giving a comprehensive account of Spanish culture from 1868 to the present day.
£13.95 p/b
El hereje
Delibes, Miguel
Delibes's latest novel, telling the story of Cipriano Salcedo, born in Valladolid in 1517, the year of Martin Luther's 95 theses, marking the birth of Protestantism.
£15.65 p/b
Yerma
García Lorca, Federico
Twentieth edition, by Miguel García-Posada.
£4.50 p/b
Bodas de sangre
García Lorca, Federico
Twenty-fourth edition, with introduction by Fernando Lázaro Carreter.
£4.50 p/b
Bodas de sangre
García Lorca, Federico
Thirteenth edition, with an introduction by Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero
£3.95 p/b
Guía de lectura de 'Las bicicletas son para el verano'
Suárez Granda, Juan Luis
£5.75 p/b
Guía de lectura de 'El Camino'
Medina-Bocos, Amparo
£4.75 p/b
Relatos para un fin de milenio
Mendicutti, Eduardo, et al.
Ten short stories which offer a literary look at burning current issues: Soledad Puertolas and Eduardo Mendicutti write about intimacy; Gonzalo Torrente Ballester and Torrente Malvido express their views on age; Rosa Regás and Bernardo Atxaga bring feelings about solidarity; Rosa Montero y Felix Romeo write about work; and Zoé Valdés and Juan Manuel de Prada talk about revolution.
£11.50 h/b
The physician of his honour
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Parallel Spanish-English text edition of one of the most engaging plays of the Siglo de Oro
£13.95 p/b
The theatre of García Lorca: Text, performance, psychoanalysis
Smith, Paul Julian
Radical new readings of Lorca's plays, inspired by a multi-disciplinary approach combining cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and women's and gay studies.
£30.00 h/b
Los aposentos laterales del Corral de la Cruz: 1582-1860
David, Charles, and Varey, J. E.
Documentation on the construction and social significance of the lateral boxes of the Madrid playhouses during the Siglo de Oro, which were parts of private houses but afforded a view onto the stage. Of interest to students of drama and social history.
£35.00 h/b
A further range: studies in modern Spanish literature
Clarke, Anthony H., ed.
An anthology of writings on the Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán and on the wider context of prose fiction and criticism in Spain in the late 19th century and early 20th.
£40.00 h/b
Atlas de geografía humana
Grandes, Almudena
The latest novel by the author of Las edades de Lulú (the new film by Bigas Luna). It deals with four women, each of them trying to establish her true identity and place in the world.
£16.75 p/b
Guía de lectura de 'El coronel no tiene quien le escriba'
Giralda Perez, M. V., et al.
£4.75 p/b
Rainy days
Lunati, Montserrat
A richly diverse collection of short stories by women writers in Spain from the period 1983-93, with accompanying introduction, notes and selected biographies.
£35.00 h/b
Las ataduras
Martín Gaite, Carmen
£10.99 p/b
Lazarillo de Tormes
Anónimo
13th edn
£3.99 p/b
Le singe de Don Quichotte: Marivaux, Cervantes et le roman postcritique
Sermain, Jean-Paul
A study of the young Marivaux's interpretation of Cervantes, illuminating the work of both authors.
£45.00 h/b
Los funerales de Mamá Grande
García Márquez, Gabriel
£4.95 p/b
Nada
Laforet, Carmen
£6.95 p/b
Réquiem por un campesino español
Sender, Ramón J.
£4.75 p/b
Spanish women's writing, 1849-1996
Davies, Catherine
A study of the major Spanish female writers - including Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rosalía de Castro and Carmen Martín Gaite - in the context of the changes in women's lives over the last 150 years.
£45.00 h/b
Torquemada en la hoguera
Pérez Galdós, Benito
£1.25 p/b
La casa de Bernarda Alba
García Lorca, Federico
Twenty-sixth edition, by Joaquín Forradellas, with an appendix charting the work in its historical and cultural context.
£4.25 p/b
Sin noticias de Gurb
Mendoza, Eduardo
The hilarious tale of an extraterrestrial searching for his colleague who is lost in the urban metropolis of Barcelona. Written in diary form, Mendoza's novel provides a satirical view of modern urban life, written in an accessible, everyday style.
£6.99 p/b
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades
Anónimo
£2.75 p/b
Doña Perfecta
Pérez Galdós, Benito
The first English edition of a classic late 19th-century novel.
£16.99 h/b
Spanish women's writing, 1849-1996
Davies, Catherine
A study of the major Spanish female writers - including Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rosalía de Castro and Carmen Martín Gaite - in the context of the changes in women's lives over the last 150 years.
£14.99 p/b
Antes del fin
Sábato, Ernesto
A candid, challenging and provocative autobiography, by the author of El túnel.
£10.50 p/b
El tiempo amarillo: memorias ampliadas, 1921-1998
Fernán-Gómez, Fernando
The moving but also at times hilarious memoirs of the author of Las bicicletas son para verano, covering a fascinating period in Spanish history, from the days of the Republic to the threshold of the new millennium.
£20.45 p/b
Isabel Allende: vida y espíritus
Correas, Celia
A fascinating study of the life and work of one of the most oustanding Latin American authors of today.
£8.95 p/b
Lorca y Dalí. El amor que no pudo ser
Gibson, Ian
A revealing account of the close friendship between two of Spain's leading artistic figures of the 20th century.
£11.95 p/b
Lorca y Dalí. El amor que no pudo ser
Gibson, Ian
A revealing account of the close friendship between two of Spain's leading artistic figures of the 20th century.
£16.35 h/b
The Dedalus book of Spanish fantasy
Costa, J. M., and McDermott, A.
A wide-ranging collection of translated texts from the mid-19th century to the present day, on subjects ranging from ghost stories to time travel.
£10.99 p/b
The poetry of Luis Cernuda
McKinlay, Neil C.
An account of the work of one of the major Spanish poets of the 20th-century, which embraces so many of the complexities and contradictions of the modern era.
£30.00 h/b
Vida, pasión y muerte de Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Gibson, Ian
Internationally acclaimed biography of the most popular Spanish poet.
£10.95 p/b
The physician of his honour
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Parallel Spanish-English text edition of one of the most engaging plays of the Siglo de Oro
£35.00 h/b
El sol de Breda
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The third of Pérez Reverte's 'Capitán Alatriste' novels. Set in 17th-century Flanders, the central theme is the siege of Breda, and the attempt to describe it ten years later to the painter Velázquez.
£14.75 p/b
Doña Perfecta
Pérez Galdós, Benito
The first English edition of a classic late 19th-century novel.
£9.99 p/b
O
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
Collection of short stories by the Cervantes Prize-winning novelist.
£14.00 h/b
Tiempos y espacios
Fuentes, Carlos
A study of the complex interplay of fantasy and realism, imagination and memory, in Latin American literature, by the celebrated Mexican author.
£3.50 p/b
Introducción a la fantasía en el Siglo de Oro español
An anthology of fantasy literature from Spain's Golden Age, including works by Cervantes, St John of the Cross, Calderón de la Barca, Góngora and others. Two of the stories are included on an accompanying audio tape.
£26.00 p/b
El intimismo de Antonio Machado
Rodríguez, Marta
An incisive study of the central themes and poetic style of Antonio Machado, one of the most influential Spanish writers of the early 20th century.
£7.55 p/b
Pequeñas infamias
Posadas, Carmen
The Planeta prize-winning novel of 1998, by one of Uruguay's leading contemporary authors. Posadas's theme is the role of coincidence – sometimes recognized, sometimes not – in shaping people's destinies.
£13.50 p/b
Teatro contemporáneo
Huélamo, Julio
An anthology highlighting the wealth of diverse themes, genres, technical approaches and ideologies to be found in 20th-century Spanish drama, with works by Arniches, Benavente, Valle-Inclan, García Lorca, Poncela, Buero Vallejo, Arrabal, Els Joglars y Fermín Cabal. With a commentary and suggestions for topics for further study.
£4.50 p/b
Las historias de Marta y Fernando
Martín Garzo, Gustavo
An intimate account of the private world of young love, the winner of the Nadal Prize for 1999.
£13.95 p/b
La casa de los espíritus
Allende, Isabel
£5.45 p/b
El último tercio del siglo (1968-1998): antología consultada de la poesía española
An anthology of work by some of the leading poets of the last three decades, including Pere Gimferrer, Ana Rossetti, Miguel D'Ors, Blanca Andreu and others.
£24.00 p/b
Obra poética
Borges, Jorge Luis
Collection of poetry by the celebrated fabulist.
£32.00 p/b
Antología poética
Machado, Antonio
A representative anthology of works by the Sevillean poet, one of the leading authors of the 'generation of '98'.
£6.95 p/b
Rimas humanas y otros versos
Lope de Vega, Felix
Scholarly edition of Lope de Vega's poetical works, edited and with an introduction by Antonio Carreña.
£30.00 h/b
Aura
Fuentes, Carlos
£1.25 p/b
Breve historia de la literatura española
Alvar, Carlos, et al.
A complete overview of the history of Spanish literature from its origins to the present day. Topics covered include: the major literary movements; landmark works; the most important authors and their intellectual background; and the social and the political context. Aimed at both the advanced student and the general reader.
£8.75 p/b
Cien años de soledad
García Márquez, Gabriel
£5.99 p/b
Como agua para chocolate
Esquivel, Laura
£4.99 p/b
García Lorca en los dramas de pueblo
Ramos Espejo, Antonio
Fascinating documentation of the newspaper stories and events that provided the real-life inspiration for Lorca's theatrical works.
£14.00 p/b
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
García Márquez, Gabriel
£4.85 p/b
Dietario de posguerra
Some of the leading contemporary writers in Spanish - including Mario Vargas Llosa, Ana María Matute and Eduardo Mendoza - each write about a day in Barcelona that has had particular importance for them and that conjures up the essence of post-Franco Spain.
£12.95 p/b
El camino
Delibes, Miguel
£5.95 p/b
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
García Márquez, Gabriel
£4.99 p/b
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
García Márquez, Gabriel
£4.85 p/b
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
García Márquez, Gabriel
£1.25 p/b
En la ardiente oscuridad
Buero Vallejo, Antonio
£4.30 p/b
Antología del cuento latinoamericano del siglo XXI: las horas y las hordas)
An anthology of short stories by young Latin American authors.
£32.00 h/b
Cien años de soledad
García Márquez, Gabriel
New edition.
£6.95 p/b
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