Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan literature, Galician intersects as well with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian peninsula.In this book, the critic August Nemo brings to readers a rich selection of seven short stories by Spanish authors.- The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon.- The White Butterfly by Jose Selgas.- Maese Perez, The Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer.- Moors And Christians by Pedro Antonio De Alarcon.- Bread Cast Upon The Waters by Fernan Caballero.- First Love by Emilia Pardo-Bazan.- An Andalusian Duel by Serafin Estebanez Calderon.For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, best known for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of a popular traditions which provides a lively picture of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia.Serafín Estébanez Calderón (27 December 1799 5 February 1867) was a Spanish author, best known by the pseudonym of El Solitario.Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 12 May 1921), countess of Pardo Bazán, was a Spanish novelist, journalist, literary critic, poet, playwright, translator, editor and professor.Fernán Caballero (24 December 1796, Morges, Vaud 7 April 1877) was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber.Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (February 17, 1836, Seville December 22, 1870, Madrid) was a Spanish Romanticist poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.José Selgas y Carrasco (born in Lorca, Murcia on November 27, 1822; dead in Madrid on February 5, 1882) was a Spanish poet and novelist.