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Captain Poison: read in Spanish (B2)

Read Alarcón’s novel El Capitán Veneno in Spanish. Level B2: lively quarrels, long narrated periods and gentle irony, with instant word translation.

El Capitán Veneno (Pedro Antonio de Alarcón)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Lively dialogue and arguments, long narrated sentences, vocabulary of temperament and feelings, 19th-century Spanish prose

This article contains the full text of Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s short novel El Capitán Veneno (1881) about a rough, woman-hating captain wounded in the Madrid street fighting of 1848 and nursed by a widow, her daughter and their maid. Level B2 suits readers who can follow fast dialogue and some long narrated sentences in Spanish. You will learn the vocabulary of arguments, feelings and everyday life in 19th-century Madrid.

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