by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Santillana USA Pub Co Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429434217
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«La cruz del diablo» is the horror legend by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in an adapted edition, published by Santillana in paperback (38 pages, in Spanish).
In the Catalan Pyrenees, a cursed boundary cross remains surrounded by wolves; its legend dates from the Middle Ages, when a cruel knight spread terror in the area. A traveller arrives in Bellver, finds the rusty cross and his guide assures him it is cursed; the tale mixes mystery and superstition until revealing the real culprit.
It belongs to the Leer en Español collection (level 3), with texts of fewer than a thousand words.
For young people and adults studying Spanish as a foreign language who seek a short intermediate-level read with mystery and legend.
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.
