Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers students the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. Selections from poetry, plays, and stories include works by Gabriela......

Over 200 royalty-free motifs: dragons, peonies, plum blossoms, tigers, clouds, geometrics, other favorites....

The Poema de Mio Cid recounts the adventures of Rodrigo Diaz, an 11th-century hero of Islamic Spain. The Cid and his legendary exploits were already the subjects of ballads, songs, and children\'s tales by the time of this 12th-century epic poem.......

Jacinto Benavente y Martinez was one of Spain\'s most important dramatists of the 20th century and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Los Intereses Creados \' main figure is Crispin, the spectacular puppet master who manipulates......

This excellent anthology introduces newcomers to 50 great writers. Beginners can get their first taste of Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Proust with passages from The Red and the Black, Les Mis...

Compiled from a variety of illustrated publications from China, this treasury of traditional Chinese designs includes intricate floral displays, stunning geometrics and exquisite combinations of blossoms and sprays, birds and animals....

Rich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets....