Etiqueta: costumbrismo

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are...

First Facts series is ideal for children who are ready to read and enjoy information books because good, clear, short text and a lot of full color high quality photographs and ilustrations are put in each book. “Nomads” is the title of the present one and tells you lot...

“Jane Eyre”, a poor orphan, grows up in misery, but she becomes, trhought a lot of time and work, the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding...

I felt vey unhappy. I was afraid to go home. 'What will my grandmother say?' I asked myself. 'What will she think? I will be sent away from school expelled!' What is the story that T. C. Jupp tells us in "Winning and Losing"?

John Steinbeck wrote some of the best and most famous American stories ever. Jody Tiflin is often alone and he knows little of the world. But one day he gets “The red pony”. He learns how to love and his whole life changes.

Two short stories about Toby, a "Newspaper Boy" who wants to be a detective while he was distributing the papers.

The main character of this story is “Marco”, who is boy and live on a farm near a small village. One day, he leaves his home and gets on a train to go to a big city, because he has nothing to do and he dislikes the life as...

How does a detective learn his job? How long does a police dog hold a thief? Which was the fingerprint that led to a killer? Lewis Jones tell us the answers in this book titled "The Story of Scotland Yard "

Lewis Jones tells us in "The Story of Madame Tussaud's" how she opens its doors every morning, but for two hours before that, people had been hard at work on some of the models washing or cleaning hairs and clothes and coluring the faces of the models. They must...

Obu is eight years old and very clever. He is first in his class at school but he is lazy and doesn't work hard. His father wants to send him away to be a servant of a schoolmaster and his nasty wife. His mother wants Obu, her only son,...