American literature to 1900

¡Conversemos! is designed for use in intermediate Spanish courses in conjunction with other texts or as a core text in a conversation course. Its lively, interactive approach develops speaking and listening skills and facilitates student interaction. ¡Conversemos! is correlated thematically to the core text ¡Continuemos!, 7/e, and is easily adaptable for use with other core texts. Practical, high-interest topics motivate students to learn, while problem-solving tasks throughout the text promote the active use of language. A variety of authentic materials throughout the text, such as...

Unamuno, known as novelist, poet, essayist, and philosopher, was also passionately interested in the political development of Spain, and devoted much time to expressing his political ideas in thousands of articles for the Spanish and foreign press. Most of these were omitted from both editions of his complete works, and although several editions of articles have appeared in recent years, there is still a great deal of material which is still unavailable. The articles in this four-volume edition reflect both the persistence of Unamuno's campaign against politicians and royals and the complex...

La autora nos ha donado una impresionante investigación sobre Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. La biografía abarca un detallado análisis de su obra y de su entorno social e histórico. El texto se compone de cuatro partes: Ansias de infinito, Dos amores: Cuba y España, Tula a la vanguardia de su tiempo y Dimensión religiosa de la Avellaneda. Pieza importante para los estudiosos y amantes de la literatura cubana; devela sin alardes de erudición la personalidad de una artista que se adelantó a su época y que representó, con sus limitaciones, a una de las primeras feministas...

Ideas is an intermediate or advanced reader that emphasizes the use of reading strategies to help students become more effective readers. It has a unique format, with all readings found in the six chapters of Parte I, which are designed to look like individual magazines on high interest topics such as pets, food, relations between the sexes, and so on. Reading strategies plus exercises, as well as lively activities that stimulate in-class conversation and composition topics make up Parte II. The entire text is in Spanish, including the reading strategies themselves. All readings--from...