Barcelona
by Robert Hughes

A sweeping history of the great Mediterranean city of culture and commerce, including a detailed history of the Catalán region, people and culture, as well as material about the successive political structures that have presided from the Catalán capital.

The Ornament of the World:
How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
by María Rosa Menocal

The incomparable story of the Western Caliphate of Al-Andalus, radiating from Córdoba, praised by a medieval European nun as "the ornament of the world" and known for its library of 400,000 volumes and its culture of tolerance and cooperation.

Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain
by Miranda France

This travel narrative brilliantly, though gently interweaves the story of the author's time in Spain with the history of the influence of the literary masterwork by Miguel de Cervantes on that country's enigmatic and inspired character.

Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle
by Peter Kerr

A moving and intimate portrait of rural Mallorca, seen through the eyes of a hopeful, if at times unlucky, expatriate Scottish writer and farmer. Snowball Oranges is rich with insight into the Mallorcan culture, which resounds in the characters that inhabit the local community.

The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War
by Gerald Brenan

This in-depth account of the years leading up to and comprising the devastating Spanish Civil War of the 1930s provides unique historical perspective, from the point of view of a foreign resident, who observed the political maneuvering and conducted his research as events unfolded.

Lorca: A Dream of Life
by Leslie Stainton

Stainton's biography of Federico García Lorca, the revered poet and playwright whose disappearance remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Spanish Civil War, is a thorough and sensitive look at the psychological adventure the poet's short life inlaid into his verse.

3 Plays:
Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico García Lorca

Lorca's plays were among the more controversial of his writings, dealing as they did with a traditionalist culture, steeped in centuries of patriarchy and social imperatives. These three are considered the central works of his career as playwright and social critic.

Antoni Gaudí
by Ignasi de Solà-Morales

Solà-Morales was one of the most influential architectural scholars and critics of the 20th Century, and his work on Gaudí is quintessential reading for anyone seeking to understand the significance of his work. This volume includes "all-new photography by Gaudí expert Rafael Vargas", as well as plans for his great constructions and a surprising and forgotten design concept for a revolutionary hotel on what would later become New York's World Trade Center site.

Santiago Calatrava: The Poetics of Movement
by Alexander Tzonis

An amazing study of the ideas underlying the genius of Spain's most recognized contemporary architect, Santiago Calatrava, whose soaring spans, arches and cantilevers have completely reinvented the way structural support is imagined in architecture around the world.

Duende:
A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco
by Jason Webster

Webster is an English expatriate, who travels to Spain in search of the mysterious art of traditional flamenco. His misadventures are well-told, and at intervals captivating, disheartening, and moving.

Spanish Lessons
by Derek Lambert

English writer moves to Valencian coast, recounts the misadventures which enriched and defined the experience of settling in a foreign country.

Driving over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
by Chris Stewart

Humorous account of English sheep shearer who moves to mountains of Granada in the South of Spain.

It was our cherished haunt, a territory for the exposition of a certain cordial, intuitive madness. That of living without place... We made our attempt to master the unknown by embracing, studying, mastering a more humble confusion. In this way, everything became a sort of art of xampanyería, a way of absorbing so much that might otherwise have been overwhelming. [Keep reading...]

Crafting Invisible Fires: Scenes of London & Bristol

They used the acoustics of the street and its rushing throng decidedly well... There's nothing like live music to awaken the traveler... [Keep reading...]

Abanico: Philippine Impressions

For an indescribable stretch in time, we were racing the calendar, racing the sun. Such is travel that traverses more than half the circumference of our planet. It is a new world... [Keep reading...]

Oxígeno y ciprés: junio en España

Camino por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo. Recuerdo sin fallo alguno el lugar y el sentido del lugar. [Lea más ...]

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Breves penumbras: poesías en castellano
by Joseph Roberston

Primer libro impreso de Casavaria (the first book in print from Casavaria Publishing). Obra de estirpe existencialista, que explora y fondea en las preguntas esenciales del yo, de la tensión entre lo concreto y lo subjetivo de la experiencia humana.

Todo Es Prólogo
Carlos Alberto Trujillo

Antología poética de la obra del poeta chilote, Carlos Trujillo. Este libro ilumina el amplio y sensible terreno que describe toda la producción del poeta. Servirá para producir una tregua en la lucha cotidiana y señalar las profundidades y las virtudes de la experiencia humana.

Inventario Uno: Poesia Completa 1950-1985
Mario Benedetti

Magnífica antología, repleta del trabajo visionario del poeta uruguayo. Este libro promete, y cede, un aumento de los límites de la experiencia cotidiana.

Romancero gitano
Federico García Lorca

El Romancero fue una colección medieval de baladas líricas; el Romancero gitano de Lorca mezcla la forma tradicional de la lírica corta con los ritmos y el concepto de duende que subrayan la experiencia del flaamenco, de la cultura misteriosa de los gitanos, de la noche andaluza...

Residencia en la Tierra
Pablo Neruda

Obra clave en la evolución de la obra nerudiana, este tomo ofrece versos de los más visionarios, expresivos y experimentales, producidos durante décadas de revisión y aumento. Los textos miden debajo de la superficie los viajes extensos del autor y su percepción de la condición del ser humano ante lo otro.

Platero y yo / Platero & I: Edición bilingüe
Juan Ramón Jiménez

Obra de inmensa sabiduría, expresada en lenguaje tanto elocuente como sencillo, este libro es repleto de metáforas y escenas que comunican la visión del poeta de un mundo lleno de belleza y milagro. Trata el peregrinaje de un hombre con su burro, Platero.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid
by Ovid, Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)

A prestigious and groundbreaking modern translation of one of the foundational texts of Western, and worldwide, literary culture.

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
by Anne Carson

A stunning achievement in the blending of genres... a poet's confrontation with the nature of what is real... one of the most sublime and elegant books of recent times.