Spanish and French Classics
Available for Student Use
Our edition of Don Quijote has been enormously successful owing to its pedagogical apparatus. In light of that success, we have published many more editions that use the same pedagogy. Editions produced in Spain for Spanish nationals assume cultural and linguistic baggage that our students simply do not and cannot have. In our editions, words that students are likely not to know are in the margin—already looked up, in English—so they know instantly what they mean. We feel that using English is correct since using Spanish glosses either dilute the meaning (we’ve seen insecto for escarabajo, for example), or force students to look up the glossed word (such as cogote being glossed for colodrillo). We also offer lots of footnotes that students in Spain do not need, but ours require. A final glossary defines more words than are in the margins, just in case.
You can examine free, sizable sections of most of these editions (in PDF format) right here at our site in the webstore book entries.
All volumes are $13.95 unless otherwise marked.
Download the Catalogues:
Cervantes & Co. 2010
Molière & Co. 2010
New Titles
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Anthology of Latin-American Fantastic Short Stories (1800-1930) |
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Anthology of Medieval Spanish Poetry |
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Honoré de Balzac's One of Balzac's Comédie humaine novels, Le Colonel Chabert depicts French life in the time of Napoleon and follows the story of a cavalry officer who returns to his "widow" and Paris years after being declared dead in battle. A study in identity and honor from one of the founders of the French realist novel. |
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George Sand's Regarded as the first French female novelist to gain a major reputation, Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) wrote her first novel, Indiana, under the pseudonym of George Sand. Indiana blends the conventions of romanticism, realism, and idealism. The novel presents a peculiar mixture of romantic desire and socialist and feminist commentary. |
Forthcoming
"Naufragas" y otros cuentos, by Pardo Bazan, ed. by Linda M. Willem, ISBN 978-1-58977-069-0 (PB) Cerv&Co #46, $13.95.
Desk Copies
We can send you free desk copies when you adopt our books for classroom use. Desk copies will only be sent to university departmental addresses. You may fax a desk copy request to us at (302) 453-8601 on your departmental letterhead, or email us using your university email address at deskcopies@europeanmasterpieces.com.
Propose New Titles
We are always looking for new editors to increase our library of available classics. If you are interested in editing or if you know of a classic Spanish or French drama or novel you would like to see published, please email Dr. Tom Lathrop at proposals@europeanmasterpieces.com with your CV and proposal or idea.
Distribution news:
European Masterpieces titles are now available from Agapea in Spain and Hachette Livre in France.