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Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games.

From the publisher. 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. Expertly abridged and adapted for the intermediate learner, each tale and play includes ample cultural notes and translations of difficult words. An extensive vocabulary is included at the back of the book.

"In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack where he works on writing stories to enter in regional contests across Spain, and foisting his judgements about literature on anyone who will listen as one of the last remaining members of the negacionismo poetry movement....

"Un día cualquiera, «un día estúpido», condicionará el resto de su existencia. La envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera. «Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creía que sí, a veces creía que no, y a veces decidía no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con él, o con aquel hombre semejante a él, mayor que él. Pero también ella se había hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia, era muy...

Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. Basado libremente en la propia vida del autor, Nada es la historia de una joven huerfana que deja su pequeno pueblo para asistir a la universidad en la guerra-devastado Barcelona.

Bear looks for shapes everywhere, such as rectangles at school and stars in the nighttime sky.