Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Esperanza Ortega has a wonderful life in Mexico until tragedy shatters her dream and forces her and her mother to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp.

A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.

This illuminating study offers a radical new understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history. Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross...

Presents real-world scenes with objects and people labelled in English and Spanish for young readers.

Introduces Spanish by defining such common words as "hola" ("hello"), "perro" ("dog"), and "madre" ("mother").

When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida-what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida-to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe's endless territorial contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in the area. Enter the Kemper brothers, whose vigilante justice culminated in a small band of American residents drafting a constitution and establishing...

A wide-ranging, accessible reference for students of Spanish or Spanish American literature covering fiction, poetry, drama, anonymous classics, and more. In Dictionary of Spanish Literature, Maxim Newmark presents a concise yet informative overview of significant authors and works in Spanish literature, as well as important topics and terminology. Outstanding Spanish literary critics, the major movements, schools, genres, and scholarly journals are...

Tesoros de la Hispanidad "El aburrimiento es el fondo de la vida, y el aburrimiento es el que ha inventado los juegos, las distracciones, las novelas y el amor". Publicada en 1914, Niebla marca un punto de inflexión en la novela experimental española y es una de las principales obras de Miguel de Unamuno (España, 1864-1936). La pasión, la mentira y el desengaño, la armonía conyugal y el amor filial, el destino y la descendencia, el deber...

Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla (Mist) represents a revolutionary achievement in Spanish literature, introducing the concept of the 'nivola'-Unamuno's innovative narrative form that challenges traditional novelistic conventions. The story follows Augusto Pérez, a wealthy bachelor whose predictable life is disrupted when he falls in love with Eugenia, a piano teacher. However, the true innovation of the work lies in its metafictional elements, particularly...

A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.