by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467021752
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«Leyendas» is the collection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Austral in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together tales of traditional roots set in different territories: from Indian and Toledan legends to Castilian, Aragonese and religious ones, along with the author's own stories. The dominant tone is Romanticism, with apparitions, mysteries and supernatural elements.
Volume 1 of the Clásica collection (Narrativa series) by Austral, edited by Francisco López Estrada and María Teresa López García-Berdoy. The original work dates from 1864.
For readers of Spanish classics and literature students, especially those approaching nineteenth-century Romantic prose.
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.
