Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary, Third Edition (Paperback)

Revised and updated with sixty-four additional pages, the most readable and accessible compact Spanish and English Dictionary includes 15,000 headwords and more than 24,500 translations, including expanded coverage of technology words. Original. 50,000 first printing.

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times

Drawing on authentic cultural materials ranging from thought-provoking artwork to classic literature and short contemporary films, Retratos: Arte y sociedad en Latinoamérica y España offers a fresh and inspired approach to the teaching of advanced Spanish Composition. In each of the eight thematically-organized chapters, these primary source materials are used to illustrate—to provide a “portrait” of—a historically or culturally important figure in the Hispanic world. These first-hand introductions to such personalities offer students rich opportunities to explore cultural...

Perfect for beginning students of Spanish, this affordable anthology is filled with 41 delightful stories and proverbs based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, and other noted writers. Complete and faithful English translations are featured on the facing pages of the Spanish text. Exercises are also included.

Seminar paper del año 2003 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,8, Universitat de Barcelona (Spanische Philologie), Materia: Seminar, Idioma: Español, Resumen: El siglo XIII fue de una complejidad apasionante en la historia de la literatura española. Todo el proceso de reconquista del territorio de España, tras la invasión árabe, tuvo dos aspectos negativos que retrasaron el desarrollo cultural y de las manifestaciones literarias: el primero la desconexión lógica que se produjo de España con el resto de Europa, el segundo fue el hecho de que...