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Originally published in 1921 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full version of La virtu sconosciuta by the renowned Italian literary figure Vittorio Alfieri (1749 1803). Derived from the Pisa edition of the Opere, Volume 4 and dated 1805, the text is presented in Italian with a short editorial introduction in English. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Alfieri and Italian literature."

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

Nora Kershaw Chadwick (1891-1972) was a prominent historian and literary scholar. Originally published in 1932, this book presents a collection of Russian heroic poems, or byliny, edited and translated into English by Chadwick. The selections run in chronological order from the medieval period through to the nineteenth century, with particular focus on major historic figures such as Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great. A detailed editorial introduction, notes and illustrative figures are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Russian literature and cultural...

Zamyatin's We is one of the best known Russian novels of the twentieth century. It is, at the same time, an anti-Utopia, a work of futuristic science fiction and a dire warning of the dangers of the regimented, totalitarian state. Completed in 1920, it was not published in Russia until 1988, for reasons of political censorship. Xamyatin's novel anticipates Huxley's Brave New World and was an acknowledged influence on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It also represents the highest achievement of Zamyatin's expericmental methods of 'neo-realism'.

From the author of MASTER AND MARGARITA, BLACK SNOW and DIABOLIAD, a novel which features a Moscow professor who befriends a stray dog and transplants into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man, unleashing a human dog which turns the professor's life into a nightmare beyond endurance.

This indispensable text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. This book contains the Russian text of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, with an English language introduction and notes.

The volume assembles the papers delivered at the International Colloquium of the Latin American Studies Center (CELA) of the University of Mainz at Germersheim in June 1997. The topics of the contributions mirror the research interests of the Spanish Studies scholars working at CELA and their guests: history of Colombia, Venezuela and the Spanish Caribbean; cultural and linguistic identity; Afro-Hispanic linguistics; modern Colombian and Venezuelan literature.

First published in 1922 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the complete text of Cervantes' Rinconete y Cortadillo, which was originally published in the Novelas Ejemplares in 1613. The story is presented in Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Cervantes and Spanish literature.

First published in 1925 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full text of Poesias originales by renowned Spanish theologian and lyric poet Luis de Leon (1527 91). The poems are presented in Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Luis and Spanish literature."

Originally published in 1923 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume gathers together a variety of autobiographical extracts from Cervantes' writings. The book is mainly comprised of prologues from the works of Cervantes, together with the epilogue from Viaje del Parnaso. Title pages from works are also included, along with some other passages which mention Cervantes and his writing. The material is presented in the original Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Cervantes and Spanish literature.

El presente libro es una tesis doctoral fruto de las lecturas, el estudio y las reflexiones hechas a lo largo de muchos anos. El primer arranque de mi decision de escribir una tesis sobre Martin Ugalde surgio con la visita que el escritor efectuo a la Universidad de Deusto en respuesta a una invitacion del profesor Inaki Beti cuando yo era alumna en aquella universidad. La figura de Ugalde no me era desconocida. Al igual que en muchas otras casas vascas, algunos de sus libros se encontraban entre los volumenes de la biblioteca familiar y los ecos de su incansable trabajo en favor del euskara...