by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · ANAYA INFANTIL Y JUVENIL · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420738079
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«Leyendas» is a collection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Anaya Infantil y Juvenil in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together short narratives of mystery and romantic settings in which the supernatural blends with Spanish landscapes and traditions: there are legends from Toledo, Seville, Castile, Aragon, India and religious ones. It is a classic work, valued for its lyricism and the unreal atmosphere it creates.
Volume from the Tus Libros collection, Intriga series (no. 40), with illustrations by Margarita Cuesta Pamies. The work was originally published in 1864.
Recommended for young readers aged 12 and over and for those wishing to approach the classics of Spanish Romanticism.
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.
