by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467356519
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«Leyendas» is an anthology of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (256 pages).
This edition brings together eight of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's best-known legends, prose tales marked by mystery, the supernatural and Spanish folklore. They feature ghosts, impossible loves and dreamlike settings, treated with the poetic, descriptive prose typical of Romanticism.
It belongs to the El Árbol de la Lectura collection, in its Adapted Classics and Anthologies line. Selection, notes and appendix by Vicente Muñoz Puelles and illustrations by Irene Fra.
Recommended for young readers aged 14 and over, also as school reading in secondary education.
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.
