Etiqueta: costumbrismo
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,...
Una de las grandes novelas de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra de la literatura victoriana. Jane Eyre es una novela clásica de amor, precursora del feminismo y la psicología moderna, sobre una huérfana que enfrenta su destino manifiesto gracias a su inteligencia e integridad inquebrantables. Controvertida y revolucionaria...
Pip is a poor, uneducated boy who works as an apprentice blacksmith for his sister's husband. Pip has got a serious dilemma. He's in love with the beautiful, arrogant Estella, and will do Pip anything to win her heart, but how? Then one day, opportunity knocks on his door,...
I am writing a book about Spain in the Golden Age and I am reading the plays of Calderón. I am now reading El Médico de su Honra. It ia acruel play. It reminds me of a man I met in Seville a long time ago. I remember it...
Who are “The Hopi Indians”? Where they live? Sue Heringman tells us about the Hopi Indians, their Villages, Reservations, Religion… She will explain us the Snake Dance, the Kachinas and Bad Spirits, the Cacique and their present and future.
Who are the British? How is the "British Life"? Anne Collins tell us about these lives, TV programmes, busines, family life, pets, food... The real life and the real people in Britain today.
"A Visit to the Doctor" explica y desarrolla el vocabulario habitual usado durante una visita al médico, desde presentarse en Recepción hasta que se despide del galeno.
Reconocido unánimemente como fundador de la novela autóctona norteamericana, sobre todo a través de esas dos obras maestras que son "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer" y "Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn", la vida y las numerosas actividades de Mark Twain (1835-1910) se solaparon en gran medida con los años...
Nos ofrece este volumen de “Narraciones” una decena de ellas con la sencillez por bandera, tal como suele hacerlo Anton Chéjov, que toma como tipo al paisanaje corriente, tanto de la ciudad como del mundo rural.
