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Cuentos para principiantes by Various authors, ed. E. C. Hills in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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The opening lines
How Cuentos para principiantes begins
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El León, el rey de las selvas, agonizaba en el hueco de su caverna....
A su lado estaba su hijo, el nuevo león, el rey futuro de todos los animales.
El monarca moribundo le daba penosamente el último consejo, el más importante.
—Huye del hombre—le decía:—huye siempre; no pretendas luchar con él.
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The Lion, the king of the jungles, was dying in the hollow of his cave....
At his side was his son, the new lion, the future king of all animals.
The dying monarch was painfully giving him the last advice, the most important one.
"Flee from man," he told him: "flee always; do not try to fight with him."
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About the book
About Cuentos para principiantes
A reader compiled by E. C. Hills for students of Spanish in the United States: short stories and sketches by various nineteenth-century writers — Bécquer's "La ajorca de oro" among them — most only a few pages long. A book made a century ago for exactly this job: your first real stories in Spanish.
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Cuentos para principiantes
Cuentos para principiantes by Various authors, ed. E. C. Hills in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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