Language: Spanish

Reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation.

Drawn from 1500 years of Mexican history, these 16 legends are told in Spanish and English, on facing pages, and with end vocabulary lists in both languages.

Spanning El Cid (1140) to El burlador de Sevilla (1630), Classic Spanish Stories and Plays contains eight great Spanish classics works including Don Quixote, one of the masterpieces of world literature.

The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers.

In this deeply moving picture of the turmoil of the first great revolution of the twentieth century-the Mexican Revolution of 1910-Azuela depicts the anarchy and the idealism, the base human passions and the valor and nobility of the simple folk, and, most striking of all, the fascination of revolt-that peculiar love of revolution for revolution's sake that has characterized most of the social upheavals of the twentieth century.