Etiqueta: costumbrismo

Este volumen reúne dos obras teatrales de Carlos Arniches (1866-1943). "El amigo Melquiades o Por la boca muere el pez", pieza estrenada en 1914, es un sainete ambientado en los barrios bajos de Madrid que desarrolla una ligera trama de amor y de celos. "La señorita de Trevélez" (1916)...

Dos piezas sobresalientes que reflejan la vida amable y sin conflictos que tan bien supieron interpretar los Álvarez Quintero. Más de doscientas piezas teatrales estrenadas en el primer tercio de nuestro siglo indican bien la popularidad de Serafín y Joaquín Álvarez Quintero. Los hermanos Quintero provenían, por la vía del...

'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become “The Railway Children” - they know all the...

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...