Great Spanish Stories / Grandes Cuentos Espanoles

Various, Margaret Jull Costa, Margaret Jull Costa , Thomas Bunstead

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Penguin Classics
09 April 2024

Anthologies (non-poetry); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation; Languages & ESL; Spanish - Bilingual Reader; Spanish - Reader; Spanish - Languages

Series: Parallel Texts

A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations

This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for language learners. Ranging from a poignant tale of betrayal to a darkly humorous exchange between wedding guests, this captivating collection includes works from authors such as Leopoldo Alas (Clarin), Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Medardo Fraile, Carmen Martin Gaite, Karmele Jaio, Carmen Laforet, Javier Marias, Carme Riera, Manuel Rivas, and Esther Tusquets.

By: Various
Edited by: Margaret Jull Costa
Translated by: Margaret Jull Costa, Thomas Bunstead, Peter Bush
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780241662199
ISBN 10: 0241662192
Series: Parallel Texts
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Margaret Jull Costa (External Editor, Translator) Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, among them novelists- Javier Marias, Jose Saramago and E a de Queiroz, and poets- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mario de Sa-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa and Ana Luisa Amaral. Her work has brought her numerous prizes, among them, the 2018 Premio Valle-Inclan for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes. In 2013, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.