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Книги издательства «CIDEB»
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A silent, dark house. Suffocating heat, church bells which ring to toll for the dead and terrible secrets. A closed space, rigorously guarded by Bernarda Alba, which is home to her five daughters, some servants and an elderly, insane mother Despite all of this, love enters the house, but then a tragedy also happens… |
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The adventures of four teenagers dealing with everyday problems: school, family, friendship, love... and also a great passion for music, which leads them to form a complex pop group as they also decide to enter a music competition. After months of trials and hardships, they finally perform in front of a public audience for the first time. This experience providing an exciting finale... |
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Man and animals are the protagonists of these classic fairy tales set in South America. A revengeful frog, a monstrous grub, five dogs who see Death and a monkey who takes hold of a man’s shadow, are part of a world that cannot be explained through the laws of nature. |
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Just as every year, Belinda de Orgaz travels to the old family home in the Pyrenees to celebrate her birthday. Friends and relatives gather to spend a pleasant weekend. But suddenly one of the guests falls ill... and a few hours later is found dead in his room. What happened? How did he die? |
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Considered to be the first realistic story coming from the Río de la Plata, El matadero describes Argentinean society in the first decade of the 19th century. Set in the area near Buenos Aires during Lent, the story starts during a heavy downpour, which makes the use of the slaughter house – the main business of the town – impossible, and thus creates a crisis in the town. In this story, Echeverría offers a critical insight into society at that time and its principal institutions: state and church. |
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Enrique Alvarado goes back to his house in Potes, Cantabria, for the holidays. He has an appointment with Mr Otero, a famous retired chemist, who wants to show him an important discovery. Suddenly Mr Otero disappears without a trace. Enrique and Camila, a childhood friend, start investigating to find their friend and work out his discovery… |
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One of the major works of the Spanish theatre, a tyrannical nobleman violent with his subjects and a popular uprising that culminated in a just revenge. Women with great personalities, the strength of the people against the tyranny and a crime forgiven by the royal family makes Fuente Ovejuna a legendary work. |
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«Lázaro, a true anti-hero figure, recounts his life with irony and humor. Through jokes and mistreatment of his owners and a hostile and cruel society, the naive and innocent child becomes the «PICARO» par excellence, a guy who has to defend himself in life, to survive while trying to climb the social ladder.» |
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In Rincon y Cortadillo two young rogues each make a living playing cards and stealing. After they meet they decide to ‘work’ together, while both dreaming a rich life in Seville. The two boys from Burgos in La ilustre Fregona Burgos leave to go adventure at an inn, on their way they meet a beautiful girl, Constance... |
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Nieve, a whale from Greenland, is orphaned: the mother was caught by a whaler. Sebastian, the son of the captain of that ship, spends all his time studying and finding ways to defend these cetaceans. When they meet, Nieve and Sebastian will win the battle between the two worlds creating a hope for a better planet where men and animals live happily together. |
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Sin Duda is a grammar book which can be used either as a classroom tool or for self study. The book is divided into 12 sections (temas) and presents the language of A1-B1, towards B2 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference. Features: • clear and concise explanations accompanied by vignettes, tables and numerous examples so as to illustrate the rules using authentic language; • wide range of clear activities for controlled practice, oral comprehension and effective communication; • information on the most common regional variations of Spanish and of its use in Spain and South America; • in each tema the material is divided into stand-alone units which make it easy to find your way around the book. Each tema concludes with three subsections: • Para revisar for revision purposes: the exercises cover the grammar studied in the tema. • Mi gramàtica isone-page summary of the grammar rules. Students must complete the text, which acts as a revision tool. • Preparaciòn al DELE (Diploma deEspaňol como Lengua Extrajera) is an exam-style exercise to simulate Nivel inicial (Concienciacomunicativa) and Nivel intermedio of the Instituto Cervantes exams. The final pages of the volume are dedicated to irregular verbs tables. |
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La Guia del profesor incluye las claves de respuestas de los ejercicios y el texto de las grabaciones. |
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Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz’s station to find that the agent has taken control of the whole area. In his complete isolation from civilized society Kurtz has instituted a brutal system of human sacrifice and magic to enthrall the natives. |
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Holly and Rosie are cousins but they are very different. When the school basketball team fails to win the championship because Holly misses a penalty, Holly discovers just how cruel her cousin can be. Holly always thought that Rosie had everything; lots of friends and lots of money to buy lots of designer clothes. But then she meets a old lady at a fair and soon finds out that things aren’t always what they seem… |
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Robert Louis Stevenson investigates into the nature of good and evil in this novel set in the Scotland of 1745. This was the year many in Scotland fought to put a Scottish king on the British throne. Two brothers, James and Henry Durie, become involved in this historical event. But The Master of Ballantrae is a also worldwide novel. Readers will travel from Scotland to New York, to India… Along the way, they will meet soldiers, hunters and pirates. |
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Cette comédie en vers est le portrait d’un faux dévot. En effet, Tartuffe est un imposteur qui, sous le masque de la religion, s’est introduit dans la maison du naïf et crédule Orgon pour épouser sa fille, séduire sa femme et s’approprier ses biens. Après de nombreux rebondissements, Orgon se rendra enfin à l’évidence et Tartuffe, l’hypocrite, sera démasqué. |
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This is the story of an old and lewd governor and his unfortunate attempts to seduce a beautiful and exuberant miller’s daughter. The story, which today still entices readers with its liveliness, and which has its origins in traditional folk tales, is one of Pedro Antonio De Alarcón’s most famous works. Manuel de Falla’s (1876-1946) famous ballet is based on the story. |
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There has been a UFO sighting in the Cascade mountains near Seattle, Washington, and everyone is excited. But no one believes there could possibly be an alien in town, until Karen, Barbara and Walter notice that one of the teachers at their high school is behaving very strangely. Karen and her friends start investigating on their own and are very surprised by what they discover... |
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What does Cymru mean? What did Emperor Hadrian build in England nearly 2000 years ago? What do competitors throw at the Highland games? Why do people ‘kiss the Blarney Stone’? The British Isles tells the story of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It includes the most important events in their history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, as well as key information about their cultures. The British Isles is full of interesting, and sometimes surprising, facts about the people and their way of life. |
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