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Marianela by Benito Pérez Galdós in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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How Marianela begins
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Se puso el sol.
Tras el breve crepúsculo vino tranquila y oscura la noche, en cuyo negro seno murieron poco a poco los últimos rumores de la tierra soñolienta, y el viajero siguió adelante en su camino, apresurando su paso a medida que avanzaba la noche.
Iba por angosta vereda, de esas que sobre el césped traza el constante pisar de hombres y brutos, y subía sin cansancio por un cerro en cuyas vertientes se alzaban pintorescos grupos de guinderos, hayas y robles.
(Ya se ve que estamos en el Norte de España.)
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The sun set.
After the brief twilight came the quiet and dark night, in whose black bosom the last sounds of the sleepy earth died little by little, and the traveler continued on his way, hastening his step as the night advanced.
He was going along a narrow path, of those that the constant tread of men and beasts traces on the grass, and he climbed without fatigue up a hill on whose slopes picturesque groups of cherry trees, beeches, and oaks rose.
(You can see that we are in the North of Spain.)
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About the book
About Marianela
In a mining district in the north of Spain, Marianela — poor, orphaned and small for her age — is the guide of Pablo, a blind young man who knows the world through her voice. Then a doctor arrives who may be able to give him his sight. Benito Pérez Galdós's short novel of 1878 is one of the classics of Spanish realism.
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