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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

遗失的蓝丝带,亡灵之夜。在西班牙的索里亚,这是诸圣节的傍晚。年轻猎人阿隆索什么都不怕,他送给美丽的表妹贝阿特丽丝一件首饰。她说本想把蓝丝带留给他作纪念,却在灵魂山上弄丢了。据说那一夜,亡灵会回到那里。

The world of the book

西班牙的古城。这些传说中有几篇发生在索里亚,一座卡斯蒂利亚古城,坐落在杜罗河畔,周围是修道院废墟和树木繁茂的群山。另一篇发生在西班牙南部的塞维利亚。其中一篇里,叙述者在夜里伴着钟声,写下他在索里亚本地听来的故事。

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