Platero and I
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Platero and I

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Platero and I

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"An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable." — The New Yorker
 
This lyric portrait of a boy's companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Translator’s Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. I. Platero
  8. II. White Butterflies
  9. III. Twilight Games
  10. IV. Eclipse
  11. V. Fear
  12. VI. Kindergarten
  13. VII. The Crazy-Man
  14. VIII. Judas
  15. IX. Early Figs
  16. X. Angelus
  17. XI. The Pit
  18. XII. The Thorn
  19. XIII. The Swallows
  20. XIV. The Stable
  21. XV. The Castrated Colt
  22. XVI. The House across the Street
  23. XVII. The Little Idiot
  24. XVIII. The Ghost
  25. XIX. Landscape in Scarlet
  26. XX. The Parrot
  27. XXI. The Roof
  28. XXII. Return
  29. XXIII. The Locked Gate
  30. XXIV. Don José, the Curate
  31. XXV. Spring
  32. XXVI. The Cistern
  33. XXVII. The Mangy Dog
  34. XXVIII. The Pool
  35. XXIX. April Idyl
  36. XXX. The Canary’s Flight
  37. XXXI. The Devil
  38. XXXII. Liberty
  39. XXXIII. The Romanies
  40. XXXIV. The Sweetheart
  41. XXXV. The Leech
  42. XXXVI. The Three Old Women
  43. XXXVII. The Cart
  44. XXXVIII. Bread
  45. XXXIX. Aglaia
  46. XL. The Corona Pine
  47. XLI. Darbón
  48. XLII. The Child and the Water
  49. XLIII. Friendship
  50. XLIV. Lullaby
  51. XLV. The Tree in the Yard
  52. XLVI. The Consumptive Girl
  53. XLVII. Benediction
  54. XLVIII. Ronsard
  55. XLIX. Peep Show
  56. L. Wayside Flower
  57. LI. Lord
  58. LII. The Well
  59. LIII. Peaches
  60. LIV. The Kick
  61. LV. Assography
  62. LVI. Corpus Christi
  63. LVII. Promenade
  64. LVIII. The Cockfight
  65. LIX. Nightfall
  66. LX. The Stamp
  67. LXI. The Mother Dog
  68. LXII. She and We
  69. LXIII. Sparrows
  70. LXIV. Frasco Vélez
  71. LXV. Summer
  72. LXVI. Forest Fire
  73. LXVII. The Brook
  74. LXVIII. Sunday
  75. LXIX. The Cricket’s Song
  76. LXX. Bullfight
  77. LXXI. Storm
  78. LXXII. Wine Harvest
  79. LXXIII. Nocturne
  80. LXXIV. Sarito
  81. LXXV. Last Siesta
  82. LXXVI. Fireworks
  83. LXXVII. The Orchard
  84. LXXVIII. The Moon
  85. LXXIX. Play
  86. LXXX. Wild Geese
  87. LXXXI. The Little Girl
  88. LXXXII. The Shepherd
  89. LXXXIII. The Canary Dies
  90. LXXXIV. The Hill
  91. LXXXV. Autumn
  92. LXXXVI. The Captive Dog
  93. LXXXVII. The Greek Turtle
  94. LXXXVIII. October Afternoon
  95. LXXXIX. Antonia
  96. XC. The Forgotten Grape Cluster
  97. XCI. Admiral
  98. XCII. Vignette
  99. XCIII. Fish Scale
  100. XCIV. Pinito
  101. XCV. The River
  102. XCVI. The Pomegranate
  103. XCVII. The Old Cemetery
  104. XCVIII. Lipiani
  105. XCIX. The Castle
  106. C. The Old Bull Ring
  107. CI. Echo
  108. CII. Fright
  109. CIII. The Old Fountain
  110. CIV. The Road
  111. CV. Pine Nuts
  112. CVI. The Runaway Bull
  113. CVII. November Idyl
  114. CVIII. The White Mare
  115. CIX. Charivari
  116. CX. The Gypsies
  117. CXI. The Flame
  118. CXII. Convalescence
  119. CXIII. The Old Donkey
  120. CXIV. Dawn
  121. CXV. Small Flowers
  122. CXVI. Christmas
  123. CXVII. Ribera Street
  124. CXVIII. Rainy Season
  125. CXIX. She-Ass’s Milk
  126. CXX. Clear Night
  127. CXXI. The Wreath of Parsley
  128. CXXII. The Wise Men
  129. CXXIII. Mons-Urium
  130. CXXIV. Wine
  131. CXXV. The Fable
  132. CXXVI. Carnival
  133. CXXVII. León
  134. CXXVIII. The Windmill
  135. CXXIX. The Tower
  136. CXXX. The Sand-Dealer’s Donkeys
  137. CXXXI. Madrigal
  138. CXXXII. Death
  139. CXXXIII. Nostalgia
  140. CXXXIV. The Sawhorse
  141. CXXXV. Melancholy
  142. CXXXVI. To Platero in the Heaven of Moguer
  143. CXXXVII. Cardboard Platero
  144. CXXXVIII. To Platero, en su Tierra
  145. List of Chapters