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Rice and Tartana: read in Spanish (C1)

Read Blasco Ibáñez’s novel Arroz y tartana in Spanish. Level C1: a Valencia family living beyond its means, with instant word translation.

Arroz y tartana (Vicente Blasco Ibáñez)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Long literary sentences, vocabulary of shops, cloth, money and the stock exchange, social description and irony, late 19th-century Spanish prose

This article contains the full text of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s novel Arroz y tartana (1894), about a Valencia widow and her children who keep up the look of wealth while debts grow. Level C1 suits readers who can handle long literary sentences and the vocabulary of trade, dress and finance. You will learn the language of Valencian city life at the end of the 19th century.

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