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Cliff and Ossie have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life. Then a young couple arrive on the island. Bella, a Caribbean woman, and Peter, an Englishman, come to live on the hill overlooking the sea. And it is here, drawn by the cool 'flim-style' house, that the harsh, bright, brittle life of urban Plymouth may be kept briefly at bay until relations become more complicated. Bella, Peter and Cliff embark on an intense, sexual relationship that leads to tension and guilt. . .

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• Introduccion(p. 11)
• Cronologia(p. 20)
• Bibliografia(p. 22)
• Rimas(p. 25)
• Leyendas
• Maese Perez el organista(p. 83)
• Los ojos verdes(p. 99)
• El rayo de luna(p. 107)
• Tres fechas(p. 118)
• Rosa de pasion(p. 137)
• La promesa(p. 147)
• El monte de las Animas(p. 159)
• El Miserere(p. 169)
• La Venta de los Gatos(p. 179)

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Publishers Weekly Review

Bécquer (1836-1870), whose real last name was the much less evocative Domínguez Bastida, was a Spanish Romantic poet in constant search of an ideal love. Greatly affected by feminine beauty, he found that love didn't last. The famous poems he called rhymes are wonderfully musical, full of nostalgia and lyrical feelings. His legends, mostly from his native city of Seville, bear his poetic sense, creating dreamlike, mysterious legendary evocations. Bécquer's original 76 rhymes, plus the additions made posthumously, are included here in unabridged form. Some of these poems would benefit from leisurely reading, rather than listening to one rhyme after another, thus allowing time to reflect on the ideas presented. However, Fabio Camero deftly dramatizes the legends and reads without rhetoric in a musical, lyric tone, though he does not sound young as the poet, who died at 34. Recommended for all libraries.-Dolores M. Koch, New York City (The House on Mango Street)Cisneros, Sandra.Very elegantly packaged, read by well-known translator Valenzuela, and translated by famous Mexican writer Poniatowska, this is a quality work that follows the taping of the original English version by the author herself, now a bit difficult to obtain. The coming-of-age story of this aspiring girl in Chicago's Hispanic ghetto brought author Sandra Cisneros to the limelight as one of today's most distinguished Latina writers. In this novel, Esperanza tells her story in sometimes joyous poems and spare, significant vignettes, even as she dreams that she has her own house and no longer lives on dilapidated Mango Street. Valenzuela gives a magnificent, youthful, and sensitive reading of an excellent translation. Educators, parents, and grandparents, as well as young people love this inspirational story; highly recommended for all bookstores and libraries, particularly those serving young Latina girls.-Dolores M. Koch, New York City(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.

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Gustavo A. Becquer was the archetypal romantic poet, devoting his life to poetry. The Rhymes, published during his lifetime in newspapers and collected by friends in a volume a year after his death, is characterized by subjectivity, musicality, and the traditional romantic themes of love, death, the idealized past, and evocative landscapes. Becquer uses the metaphor of yearning for an unattainable woman, first an imaginary muse and then a real woman who rejects him to describe the spiritual quest of the poet for ineffable beauty and inspiration.

Becquer's poetry has been called plastic and painterly for its emphasis on color, light, and architecture. Influences on The Rhymes are said to be primarily those of Heine, Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Musset, and Lamartine. An atmosphere of magic and fantasy pervades the romantic Legends (1860-64), which are set in distant places, such as India, and remote times, primarily the Middle Ages. Damaso Alonso called Becquer's work the beginning of contemporary poetry.

Becquer died at age 34 of tuberculosis and the effects of his bohemian life of poverty.

(Bowker Author Biography)