Flor de mayo

Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 414K words
Chapters: 42

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Flor de mayo by Vicente Blasco IbáñezAuthor: Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928,Language: Spanish, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Dec 31, 2012

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This novel by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is set against local life in Valencia. The Spanish original is catalogued and released by Project Gutenberg as a public-domain ebook. Ibáñez is known for rendering ordinary people's lives with vivid regional colour and a realist touch, and the book offers some reference value for understanding late nineteenth-century Spanish rural society, local customs, and literary style. As a free electronic edition, it suits Spanish-language reading practice or supplementary use by students of foreign literature, and it is easy to search and carry. Note that the book is in Spanish and is an early public-domain resource with plain typesetting and annotation; readers should use a dictionary and background materials and treat it as language-learning and literary-historical reading rather than light entertainment.

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Intermediate to advanced readers learning Spanish who wish to engage with original literature
Literature enthusiasts studying Spanish realist writing and local customs
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Travellers and cultural readers interested in Valencian regional culture

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Learn first about Ibáñez and the Valencian rural background, then begin the main text.
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Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928 Author

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) was a Spanish novelist. Public information on the details of his life is limited, yet the character of his work is fairly clear. The library holds 46 of his works, including such representative titles as Sangre y arena, Cañas y barro, Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis, La Barraca, Flor de mayo and La bodega. His fiction often draws on rural Valencia and the lives of the urban poor, written in a realistic vein and skilled at portraying the natural landscape and its entanglement with human fate, combining regional colour with social criticism. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, set against war, brought him a wider international readership. Overall, his novels occupy a place in the transition of Spanish literature from realism to modern narrative.