El diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola DRAE

This is an anthology of ten short stories dealing with a broad range of Spanish American literary themes: love, hate, vengeance, justice, oppression and solidarity. A reading guide offers tips for reading in Spanish and provides guidelines for predicting a story's major events. Following each story are two different sections of comprehension activities, as well as exercises on key modismos (idioms) and grammar structures.

This collection of Latin-American literature features short stories of revenge and hope, love and death, written by established masters as well as by new voices.

The Yoruba are responsible for one of Africa's oldest and most dynamic artistic traditions. This cultural heritage now extends to 25 million people of Yoruba descent in other parts of Africa and the Americas.This is a Spanish dictionary for hundreds of words and expressions used in this religion.

El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology , Eighth Edition, is designed for intermediate college Spanish reading courses. This book provides students with a collection of fi rst-rate Spanish-language short stories with which to expand their reading skills and their knowledge of Hispanic culture as por- trayed in these works. Although literary excellence was the primary crite- rion in selecting stories, an effort was also made to choose tales that can be read in one sitting.