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Legends

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Legends

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1861
Monolingual
22 October 2026
Pages
188
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Horror, Fantasy
Moods
Get the chills, Be enchanted, Savour the writing, Travel back in time
Translated from
Spanish

Book summary

In the Spain of old legends, a hunter finds a woman with green eyes beside a hidden spring. A young poet runs through the night after an unknown woman who may be nothing but a moonbeam. Elsewhere, a blind organist plays music that lives on after death.

This collection brings together six of these tales, somewhere between dream and shiver. Bécquer, a great poet of Spanish Romanticism, tells them as if by the fireside, in a simple, musical style.

Each tale is short and can be read in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

Verloren blauw lint in de nacht van de doden. In Soria, in Spanje, is het Allerheiligenavond. Alonso, een jonge jager die nergens bang voor is, geeft zijn mooie nicht Beatriz een juweel. Ze wilde hem haar blauwe lint…

The world of the book

Oude steden van Spanje. Verschillende van deze legenden spelen in Soria, een oude stad in Castilië aan de rivier de Douro, tussen kloosterruïnes en beboste bergen. Een andere speelt in Sevilla, in het zuiden van…

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