Mexican Short Stories / Cuentos mexicanos: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)

Writing styles in Europe in the 1800s had a big impact on Mexico’s writers, who wrote some of the best prose fiction in Spanish America. This book has a wide range of important Mexican short stories written between 1843 and 1918. The nine stories range from the realistic “Reloj sin dueo” by López Portillo and the modernist “La maana de San Juan” by Gutiérrez Nájera to the historically accurate “Las mulas de Su Excelencia” by Riva Palacio and the vividly romantic “Amor secreto” by Manuel Payno, who is known as the “father of Mexican short stories.”
Each story is written in Spanish, and on the page next to it, an expert translates it into English. This edition comes in two languages and has a new introduction and a lot of footnotes. It’s easy to read and fun for people who like good Spanish literature. It’s also a useful tool for students and teachers.