Vvelo! Beginning Spanish

El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology , Eighth Edition, is designed for intermediate college Spanish reading courses. This book provides students with a collection of fi rst-rate Spanish-language short stories with which to expand their reading skills and their knowledge of Hispanic culture as por- trayed in these works. Although literary excellence was the primary crite- rion in selecting stories, an effort was also made to choose tales that can be read in one sitting.

El inglés es el idioma hoy más hablado, estudiado y extendido por todo el mundo como lengua materna, pero sobre todo como lengua franca y lengua extranjera. España no es una excepción. Este libro introduce al lector en un contexto tan sugerente como desconocido: el definitvo despegue de la presencia de la lengua inglesa en nuestro país durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Un hecho al que contribuirían decisivamente figuras del ámbito filológico, literario periodístico y docente del momento, como fueron Juan Calderón, los hemanos Luis y Santiago Usoz, o Pascual de Gayangos, cuya...

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...

/BRADFORD BARBARA; A/ Straight from the heart of mega-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a dramatic tour de force about unanticipated passions. At 43, interior designer Maggie Sorrell has retreated from her ex-husband and grown children to a small town in Connecticut. With the stirring and completely unexpected new romance with a younger man, she dares to believe in a sweet, impassioned future. Na