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1991

A History of the Spanish Language

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Ralph Penny - 1991

This revised and expanded edition of Ralph Penny's authoritative text includes new material on the nature of linguistic history, the concept of World Spanish, processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish and the English/Spanish interface.

This edition also contains a glossary of technical terms, guidance on further reading and suggested topics for discussion.

In Search of the Present: 1990 Nobel Lecture

Octavio Paz - 1991

The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity.

Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by Anthony Stanton.

The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables

Victor Montejo - 1991

The Bird Who Cleans the World and other Mayan Fables is collection of Jakaltek Mayan folktales, first told to the author by his mother and the elders of his Guatemalan village.

They deal with the themes of creation, nature, mutual respect, and ethnic relations and conflicts. Told here for the first time in English and illustrated with Mayan images, these stories and fables speak eloquently of an ancient culture, at once preserving its history and recreating its tradition. Includes figure and illustrations.

Best ofSpanish-Literature

1991

A History of the Spanish Language

In Search of the Present: 1990 Nobel Lecture

The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables

Best of
Spanish-Literature