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Read Blasco Ibáñez’s novel Cañas y barro in Spanish. Level C1: long descriptive sentences, the vocabulary of the Albufera lake and fishermen, with instant word translation.
Vocabulary of the lake, fishing and rice farming, long descriptive sentences, village dialogue, early 20th-century Spanish spelling
This article contains the full text of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s novel Cañas y barro (1902), set among the fishermen of El Palmar on the Albufera lake near Valencia, where a family struggles to win rice fields from the water. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long descriptive paragraphs in Spanish. You will learn the vocabulary of fishing, farming and village life, and early 20th-century spelling.