Product Description: "Novelas cortas", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "Poesías", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "Sonetos", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "El escándalo", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "El amigo de la muerte", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "Historietas nacionales", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "El clavo", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: "El Capitán Veneno", de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un narrador español (1833-1891)

Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more

Product Description: Crónica heroica de las acciones bélicas de España en el Magreb. Alarcón parece una extraña mezcla de romántico y patriota colonial.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION EDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCON was the fourth of ten children. Born on the .L tenth day of March, 1833, in the picturesque little city of Guadix, in the province of Granada, Spain, he came of a noble and ancient family whose considerable fortune had disappeared in the Napoleonic wars and the subsequent political disorders. He studied philosophy at the Guadix Seminary under a secularized Franciscan monk, and took his degree as a Bachelor in that subject when he was but fourteen years of age. In Granada he took up the study of law, but the inability of his parents to furnish him with the necessary funds soon forced him to return to his native city, where at his father's request, he embarked upon the study of theology. Poor as he was, he managed somehow to collect a considerable library which embraced books in French and Italian as well as in Latin and Spanish. French and Italian being absolutely unknown tongues to him, he forthwith set about their acquisition by a rather unusual method. Among his possessions were two copies of Jerusalem Delivered, one of which was in French, the other in his own tongue. By dint of infinite patience and a good deal of hard work, he succeeded in acquiring at least a reading knowledge of French in an incredibly short time. He taught himself Italian by the same method. As his reading progressed, his love for literature grew, and his taste for theological studies decreased. He determined to become a writer; and therefore, as the first and most necessary step in that direction, he decided to go to Madrid. His parents did not look with favour upon his literary ambitions, as they felt that he should continue in the more lucrative career that the church offered. However he had made up his mind, and h

Product Description: by Pedro Antonio de AlarcónAll Quality Classics eBooks include a working table of contents and are formatted for the Kindle.Includes footnotes and study notes.

Product Description: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of El Capitan Veneno. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, which is now, at last, again available to you...read more

Product Description: EDICIÓN de 1907.

Little Blue books was a series of books designed to get literature into the hands of working class citizens. They were small inexpensive books that fit easily into a pocket. The books gained in popularity after their beginnings in 1919. After World War II Hoover and the FBI viewed some of their controversial topics as dangerous and the bookstores would no longer carry the books. First Love And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life is a collection of love stories including the following: First love by Emilia Pardo-Bazan, An Andalusian Duet by Serafin Estebanez Calerdon, Marquita he Bald by Juan Engenio-Hartzenbusch, The Love of Clotilde by Amando Palacio-Valdes, and Captain Veneno’s Proposal of Marriage by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon.

Product Description: Alarcón afirma en el prefacio a su libro que aquí el lector no encontrará nada «al modo de ciertos libros de la literatura francesa contemporánea» y parece referirse a las novelas pornográficas de la época.

Product Description: Panorama de la sociedad española del XIX, a través de su literatura y de su hidalguía... Sorprende el trasfondo de desazón y amarga apología nacionalista del autor, quien deja entrever las fisuras del proyecto de modernidad de la cultura hispana.

Product Description: Su primera novela, El final de Norma, fue compuesta a los 18 años y publicada en 1855. Se trata de una obra romántica, una historia de amor en la que un joven apasionado persigue al objeto de su deseo a través de media Europa.

Product Description: Se trata de un cuadro de costumbres de la España del XIX.

Product Description: Libro de relatos y poemas de uno de los más célebres autores de la España del siglo XIX.

Product Description: Esta novela relata la convalescencia del monárquico Capitán Veneno con Doña Teresa Carrillo de Albornoz, viuda;Angustias, su hija, y una criada gallega, tras ser herido en un enfrentamiento entre el Ejército Monárquico y el Republicano en una calle de Madrid...read more

Product Description: «Granada, se veía blanquear a lo lejos, tendida en los cerros umbrosos de la Alambra y el Albaicín, como una odalisca envuelta en cándido alquicel, echada sobre oscuros almohadones... Ya no se percibían sus pormenores y detalles...read more

Product Description: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón publica excelentes relatos breves en publicaciones periódicas de la época. El amigo de la muerte, El clavo, La Buenaventura, El extranjero, La corneta de llaves, El asistente, Buena pesca, El año Spitzberg, Dos retratos, El coro de ángeles, La belleza ideal, El afrancesado, El carbonero alcalde, Novela natural, entre otros muchos relatos, aparecerán en durante su etapa juvenil, destacando como excelente narrador...read more