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Developed for beginning and intermediate-level courses, Graded Spanish Reader: Primera etapa features works by renowned Spanish and Latin American literary figures, including prominent women writers. Selections of fiction, poetry, and drama are supported by a comprehensive pre-reading and post-reading apparatus designed to engage students as readers, writers, and speakers of the Spanish language. Brief discussion of literary figures and tropes prepares students to understand the meaning and function of figurative language. Biographical sketches and cultural context provides students with a...

Un abuelo que abandonó a la familia hace años reúne a los nietos en el lecho de muerte declarándolos herederos de una fortuna cuando se cumpla una condición tan insólita como envenenada. Les llega a decir: «Un hombre, al menos una vez en la vida, siente un fuego frío, el deseo incontenible de tenerlo todo. ¿Y por qué no? ¿Por qué unos sí y otros no? Me repugnan los capones, la buena gente que solo aspira, como los perros que te lamen los pies bajo la mesa, a comer las sobras». La ambición es un cáncer corrosivo que va a cambiar la vida anodina de los nietos jóvenes. Uno se...

Images of Latin America offers a historical and cultural overview of Hispanic America: from pre-Columbian cultures to the contemporary cultures of each country. This work-a wealth of information, to analyze in depth the processes that occurred after the arrival of the Spanish to America, and devotes special attention to the events occurred in the twentieth century, country by country.

This best-selling intermediate Spanish conversational reader encourages student discussions and presents a broad variety of thought-provoking Hispanic themes.