Sunday, July 27, 2014

España Pintoresca; The Life and Customs of Spain in Story and Legend


Marcial Dorado, Carolina, España pintoresca; the life and customs of Spain in story and legend, Boston, Ginn & Co., 1917.

Available on-line.

Reviewed in The Modern Language Journal.

From the author’s Preface:
This book is for the use of students who have taken the first steps in the study of Spanish. It is meant to supply a need which the author has felt in teaching the language. Familiarity with a language and its literature is difficult to attain without the sympathy lent by an intimate understanding of the manners and customs of the people, and never were language and life more closely intertwined than in the vibrant heart of old Spain, where the passion and poetry of the race find expression in its ardent and melodious speech.

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