The Blood of the Arena. Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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Название: The Blood of the Arena

Автор: Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Издательство: Bookwire

Жанр: Языкознание

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isbn: 4066338114334

isbn: 0

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Juan Gallardo rises to the position of a torero from a humble background. His passion and courage for bull-fighting makes him a hero and determines his destiny. But is that all to Gallardo's life? Excerpt: "It was a number of years ago, not long after he had been given «the alternative» in the bull-ring of Madrid, that he came to lodge at a certain hotel on Alcalá Street where his hosts treated him as if he were one of the family, and the dining-room servants, porters, scullions, and old waiters adored him as the glory of the establishment. There, too, he had spent many days wrapped in bandages, in a dense atmosphere heavy with the smell of iodoform, in consequence of two gorings, but the unhappy recollection did not weigh upon him…"