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El capitán Veneno by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.

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Author
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Level
B1
Original
El capitán Veneno · 1881
Length
~20k words
Reading time
~2 h
Translation
English, sentence by sentence

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ES

La tarde del 26 de marzo de 1848 hubo tiros y cuchilladas en Madrid entre un puñado de paisanos que, al expirar, lanzaban el hasta entonces extranjero grito de ¡Viva la República!, y el Ejército de la Monarquía española (traído o creado por Ataúlfo, reconstituido por don Pelayo y reformado por Trastamara), de que a la sazón era jefe visible, en nombre de doña Isabel II, el Presidente del Consejo de Ministros y Ministro de la Guerra, don Ramón María Narváez.

Y basta con esto de historia y de política, y pasemos a hablar de cosas menos sabidas y más amenas, a que dieron origen y coyuntura aquellos lamentables acontecimientos.

EN

On the afternoon of March 26, 1848, there were gunshots and knife fights in Madrid between a handful of civilians who, as they expired, shouted the until then foreign cry of 'Long live the Republic!', and the Army of the Spanish Monarchy (brought or created by Ataúlfo, reconstituted by Don Pelayo and reformed by Trastamara), of which at that time the visible chief was, in the name of Doña Isabel II, the President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War, Don Ramón María Narváez.

And enough of this history and politics, and let us move on to speak of less known and more pleasant things, to which those lamentable events gave origin and opportunity.

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About El capitán Veneno

Madrid, March 1848: street fighting leaves a gruff, woman-hating army captain wounded at the door of a widow and her daughter, who nurse him back to health against his loud protests. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's short novel is a comedy about a man losing every argument with his own heart.

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