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Lorca's Sketches of Spain: Impressions and Landscapes is a unique book, now available in an unillustrated e-book edition as well as an illustrated print edition. Federico Garcia Lorca’s first book, published when he was just nineteen, is a series of meditations on Spanish art, landscapes and history. Brimming with passion and excitement, the young writer travels in search of Spain's essential spirit: sunsets in Granada, the Gothic magnificence of Burgos Cathedral, ‘the savage splendour’ of Castile's mountains and plains. While Lorca celebrated Spanish culture – romantic gardens, agonised crucifixes, Gregorian plainchant and ‘the bite of flamenco' – he was also fearlessly critical when, for example, the harshness and celibacy of monks’ lives or poverty and injustice aroused his rage. Serif’s new edition of this formative work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers takes the reader straight to the heart of Lorca’s Spain. With its rich, poetic prose, Sketches of Spain is a missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of a creative life cut tragically short by the author's assassination at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.


The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches

Автор: Марк Твен

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As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are "whimsical". Taken individually, they speak the truth in different ways.


Sketches New and Old Sketches New and Old

Автор: Марк Твен

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A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.


Our village: sketches of rural character and scenery Our village: sketches of rural character and scenery

Автор: Mary Russell Mitford

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Our village : sketches of rural character and scenery / by Mary Russell Mitford».


Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden. Vol. 2 Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden. Vol. 2

Автор: Robert Ker Porter

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden : Vol. 2 : during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 : with 41 plates : in 2 volumes / by Robert Ker Porter».


Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland

Автор: William Coxe

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Sketches of the natural, civil, and political state of Swisserland : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe».