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| Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0140442480 |
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.
| Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Humorous stories, Spanish |
| ISBN | : 9780192832436 |
More popular in their day than DON QUIXOTE, Cervantes's EXEMPLARY STORIES (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. This new translation captures the full vigor of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed gems, "The Illustrious Kitchen Maid" and "The Power of Blood".
| Author | : Miguel de Cervantes |
| Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2020-12-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1513274058 |
With stories about love, culture, adventure, religious differences and shocking endings, Exemplary Stories features dynamic protagonists and challenges tradition. Featuring twelve novellas, Exemplary Stories features a diverse array of protagonists, accompanied by captivating prose. Among this collection of short fiction is The Little Gypsy Girl, a story about a wise, talented and beautiful young woman who requires her noble suitor to leave his old life behind and become a gypsy in order to win her hand in marriage. Using irony to expose the social contrasts in a rich city, Rinconte and Cortadillo features two thieves that travel to a new town with intentions to join a guild of criminals. The Liberal Lover depicts a couple who take each other for granted. During the downfall of their relationship, a tragic event separates the two, causing them to reconsider the way they treat each other. Inviting discussion on the pivotal role mental health plays in daily life, The Lawyer of Glass depicts a handsome young man named Thomas, who is well-known for his intelligence. Enamored by Thomas, a local woman brews a love potion and gets Thomas to drink it, unintentionally poisoning him. Though he is able to physically recover, Thomas is convinced that he is made of glass, changing him in a way the woman never intended to. Exemplary Stories features twelve of Miquel de Cervantes’ exceptional works of short fiction, each crafted with enthralling prose and thought-provoking plot that cater to curiosity and a sense of adventure. With an aesthetically pleasing approach, Cervantes crafted this collection to address social and moral issues. Since its publication in 1613, Exemplary Stories has inspired dramatic adaptations, and have inspired many writers. With shocking endings, complex conflicts, and adventurous settings, Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes continues to surprise and delight readers even four-hundred years later. This edition of Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes features twelve works of short fiction and has been redesigned with the modern reader in mind. With an eye-catching cover and an easy-to-read font, the excellence and awe of Exemplary Stories reaches the contemporary audience with ease.
| Author | : Miguel Cervantes |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2006-05-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141960280 |
Composed throughout Cervantes's writing life and mentioned in Don Quixote, his Exemplary Stories are among the first and finest Spanish short stories: ranging from traditional tales of love to incisive moral fables. In The Little Gipsy Girl, an Italianate romance, the nomadic life is idealised through a love affair between the beautiful Preciosa and a nobleman who agrees to live as a gipsy to win her heart. Elsewhere, the intricacies of love are further explored in tales such as The Jealous Extremaduran, while the picaresque Rinconette and Cortadillo, depicting the friendship between a card-sharper and a pickpocket, presents a very different insight into the lower classes of seventeenth-century Spain. Widely regarded as one of Cervantes's greatest stories, The Dogs' Colloquy brilliantly captures Spanish conversation and society in its depiction of a discussion between two dogs mysteriously granted the gift of speech.
| Author | : María de Zayas y Sotomayor |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0226768678 |
At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.
| Author | : Miguel de Unamuno |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
'No Spanish voice was heard during the fifty years of his active intellectual life which could compare with his in the strength of his passion nor in the profound seriousness with which he challenged every complacency...The central idea in all his fiction is the struggle to create faith from doubt and ethics from inner strife.'
| Author | : Robert Yager |
| Publisher | : NSTA Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2007-10-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1933531622 |
| Author | : Bernard Deprez |
| Publisher | : Lanoo Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9782873868000 |
In the face of all the uncertainty about the future, is it possible to imagine a city becoming more beautiful, more practical and more economical to live in, while at the same time becoming more sustainable? This was the challenge the Brussels-Capital Region set itself in 2007 - and its response was to launch the Batex call for projects targeting everyone wanting to build or refurbish a building in Brussels. The term "Batex" is the abbreviation for "Batiments exemplaires" or "exemplary buildings", and the whole idea is to leverage each project, whether large or small, whether private or public, to spread the word about eco-construction, what it involves and how it can help transform the city, building by building. On the occasion of the fifth call for projects, the Brussels Environmental Agency is providing this review of the selected projects, telling their success stories. AUTHOR: Bernard Deprez, is an architectural engineer and lecturer at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles Faculty of Architecture. Jean Cech is a journalist who has specialised for almost 30 years in topics associated with sustainable development. ILLUSTRATIONS: 200 colour
| Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1952 |
| Genre | : Spanish fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Richard Kearney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2002-09-09 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134537913 |
Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories not only entertain us but can determine our lives and personal identities. He also considers nations as stories, including the story of Romulus and Remus in the founding of Rome. Throughout, On Stories stresses that, far from heralding the demise of narrative, the digital era merely opens up new stories.
