Don Fernando

Download or read book Don Fernando's Birthday Fiesta & the Three Speckled Chickens written by Olivia Reyes and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicki-Baby, Adelita, and Ya-Ya are three speckled chickens who live on a hilly farm with Rosita the pig, Doña Pepita the cow, and Gustavo the turkey. Because the chickens always want to look lovely, they curl their eyelashes and paint their beaks and toenails every morning. All three chickens adore Don Fernando, a handsome rooster with the important job of waking the farm each day. When they receive an invitation to the rooster’s annual birthday fiesta, Chicki-Baby, Adelita, and Ya-Ya can hardly contain their excitement. As they prepare for the party, no one knows which chicken will win the affections of Don Fernando—or will it be all three? In this delightful tale, three chickens in love with the same handsome rooster attend his annual birthday fiesta where they happily compete for his attention.

Download or read book Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy written by Galen Brokaw and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl's life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.

Download or read book Don Fernando written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Velazquez and the creator of Don Juan. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment with the landscape and people of Spain.

Download or read book The Signifying Self written by Melanie Henry and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic offers a comprehensive analysis of all eight of Cervantes's Ocho comedias (published 1615), moving beyond conventional anti-Lope approaches to Cervantine dramatic practise in order to identify what, indeed, his theatre promotes. Considered on its own aesthetic terms, but also taking into account ontological and socio-cultural concerns, this study compels a re-assessment of Cervantes's drama and conflates any monolithic interpretations which do not allow for the textual interplay of contradictory and conflicting discourses which inform it. Cervantes's complex and polyvalent representation of freedom underpins such an approach; a concept which is considered to be a leitmotif of Cervantes's work but which has received scant attention with regards to his theatre. Investigation of this topic reveals not only Cervantes's rejection of established theatrical convention, but his preoccupation with the difficult relationship between the individual and the early modern Spanish world. Cervantes's comedias emerge as a counter-perspective to dominant contemporary Spanish ideologies and more orthodox artistic imaginings. Ultimately, The Signifying Self seeks to recuperate the Ocho comedias as a significant part of the Cervantine, and Golden-Age, canon and will be of interest and benefit to those scholars who work on Cervantes and indeed on early modern Spanish theatre in general.

Download or read book On a Chinese Screen written by William Somerset Maugham and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flores del agua written by Amy K. Kaminsky and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

Download or read book Torn from the Nest written by Clorinda Matto de Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people. She believed the task of the novel was to be the photograph that captures the vices and virtues of a people, censuring the former with the appropriate moral lesson and paying its homage of admiration to the latter. In this tragic tale, Clorinda Matto de Turner explores the relationship between the landed gentry and the indigenous peoples of the Andean mountain communities. While unfolding as a love story rife with secrets and dashed hopes, Torn from the Nest in fact reveals a deep and destructive class disparity, and criticizes the Catholic clergy for blatant corruption. When Lucia and Don Fernando Marin settle in the small hamlet of Killac, the young couple become advocates for the local Indians who are being exploited and oppressed by their priest and governor and by the gentry allied with these two. Considered meddling outsiders, the couple meet violent resistance from the village leaders, who orchestrate an assault on their house and pursue devious and unfair schemes to keep the Indians subjugated. As a romance blossoms between the a member of the gentry and the peasant girl that Lucia and Don Fernando have adopted, a dreadful secret prevents their marriage and brings to a climax the novel's exposure of degradation: they share the same father--a parish priest. Torn from the Nest was first published in Peru in 1889 amidst much enthusiasm and outrage. This fresh translation--the first since 1904--preserves one of Peru's most distinctive and compelling voices.