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Literary Fables: read in Spanish (B2)

Read Iriarte’s Fábulas literarias in Spanish. Level B2: 75 short verse fables with morals, 18th-century vocabulary and instant word translation.

Fábulas literarias (Tomás de Iriarte)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Verse fables, morals, animal and everyday vocabulary, assonance and rhyme, 18th-century Spanish

This article contains the fables of Tomás de Iriarte (first published in 1782) in the 1917 Oxford edition: 75 short fables in which animals mock vanity, envy and bad writers, each with its moral in parentheses. Level B2 suits readers who can follow short verse lines and a little old Spanish. You will learn animal and everyday vocabulary and how Spanish verse bends word order.

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