Full Description
This lyric portrait of life-and the little donkey, Platero-in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan RamÓn JimÉnez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Contents
Translator's Acknowledgments
Platero and I
List of Chapters
I. Platero
II. White Butterflies
III. Twilight Games
IV. Eclipse
V. Fear
VI. Kindergarten
VII. The Crazy-Man
VIII. Judas
IX. Early Figs
X. Angelus
XI. The Pit
XII. The Thorn
XIII. The Swallows
XIV. The Stable
XV. The Castrated Colt
XVI. The House across the Street
XVII. The Little Idiot
XVIII. The Ghost
XIX. Landscape in Scarlet
XX. The Parrot
XXI. The Roof
XXII. Return
XVIII. The Locked Gate
XXIV. Don JosÉ, the Curate
XXV. Spring
XXVI. The Cistern
XXVII. The Mangy Dog
XXVIII. The Pool
XXIX. April Idyl
XXX. The Canary's Flight
XXXI. The Devil
XXXII. Liberty
XXXIII. The Romanies
XXXIV. The Sweetheart
XXXV. The Leech
XXXVI. The Three Old Women
XXXVII. The Cart
XXXVIII. Bread
XXXIX. Aglaia
XL. The Corona Pine
XLI. DarbÓn
XLII. The Child and the Water
XLIII. Friendship
XLIV. Lullaby
XLV. The Tree in the Yard
XLVI. The Consumptive Girl
XLVII. Benediction
XLVIII. Ronsard
XLIX. Peep Show
L. Wayside Flower
LI. Lord
LII. The Well
LIII. Peaches
LIV. The Kick
LV. Assography
LVI. Corpus Christi
LVII. Promenade
LVIII. The Cockfight
LIX. Nightfall
LX. The Stamp
LXI. The Mother Dog
LXII. She and We
LXIII. Sparrows
LXIV. Frasco VÉlez
LXV. Summer
LXVI. Forest Fire
LXVII. The Brook
LXVIII. Sunday
LXIX. The Cricket's Song
LXX. Bullfight
LXXI. Storm
LXXII. Wine Harvest
LXXIII. Nocturne
LXXIV. Sarito
LXXV. Last Siesta
LXXVI. Fireworks
LXXVII. The Orchard
LXXVIII. The Moon
LXXIX. Play
LXXX. Wild Geese
LXXXI. The Little Girl
LXXXII. The Shepherd
LXXXIII. The Canary Dies
LXXXIV. The Hill
LXXXV. Autumn
LXXXVI. The Captive Dog
LXXXVII. The Greek Turtle
LXXXVIII. October Afternoon
LXXXIX. Antonia
XC. The Forgotten Grape Cluster
XCI. Admiral
XCII. Vignette
XLIII. Fish Scale
XCIV. Pinito
XCV. The River
XCVI. The Pomegranate
XCVii. The Old Cemetery
XLVIII. Lipiani
XCIX. The Castle
C. The Old Bull Ring
CI. Echo
CII. Fright
CIII. The Old Fountain
CIV. The Road
CV. Pine Nuts
CVI. The Runaway Bull
CVII. November Idyl
CVIII. The White Mare
CIX. Charivari
CX. The Gypsies
CXI. The Flame
CXII. Convalescence
CXIII. The Old Donkey
CXIV. Dawn
CXV. Small Flowers
CXVI. Christmas
CXVII. Ribera Street
CXVIII. Rainy Season
CXIX. She-Ass's Milk
CXX. Clear Night
CXXI. The Wreath of Parsley
CXXII. The Wise Men
CXXIII. Mons-Urium
CXXIV. Wine
CXXV. The Fable
CXXVI. Carnival
CXXVII. LeÓn
CXXVIII. The Windmill
CXXIX. The Tower
CXXX. The Sand-Dealer's Donkeys
CXXXI. Madrigal
CXXXII. Death
CXXXIII. Nostalgia
CXXXIV. The Sawhorse
CXXXV. Melancholy
CXXXVI. To Platero in the Heaven of Moguer
CXXXVII. Cardboard Platero
CXXXVIII. To Platero, en su Tierra
