by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Edelsa Grupo Didascalia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477110941
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«El beso» is the legend by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in a graded reader edition, published by Edelsa Grupo Didascalia in paperback (48 pages, in Spanish).
A mysterious legend set in Toledo during the Peninsular War. A French captain lodges with his troops in an ancient church and becomes fascinated by an enigmatic female figure, leading to a disturbing outcome. It is one of Bécquer's legends blending history and supernatural events.
Part of the Lecturas Clásicas Graduadas ELE collection, level 2, and includes a reading comprehension guide and passages from the work in the original version.
Recommended for intermediate-level students of Spanish as a foreign language.
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. He is one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, with some considering him the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the romanticism and post-romanticism movements and wrote while realism enjoyed success in Spain. He was moderately well-known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published. His best-known works are the Rhymes and the Legends, usually published together as Rimas y leyendas. These poems and tales are essential to studying Spanish literature and common reading for high-school students in Spanish-speaking countries.
