South From Granada

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141918039
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and characters. Fascinating details emerge, from cheap brothels to archaeological remains, along with visits from Brenan’s friends from the Bloomsbury group – Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf among them. Knowledgeable, elegant and sympathetic, this is a rich account of Spain’s vanished past.

South From Granada

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Yegen (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description

South from Granada

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British in Yegen, Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Gerald Brenan is generally regarded as the greatest of English writers about Spain. "South from Granada" describes the essence of a remote rural area before the Civil War with vivid sympathy. Here, brought back to life, are the festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, the village customs, superstitions and characters. Equally compelling are chapters on Granada in the twenties, food and the Phoenicians, the cheap brothels and archaeological remains of Almeria, the stark but haunting mountain scenery and even a visit from Virginia Woolf. The result was acclaimed on publication as a masterpiece; it remains a classic, richly evocative account of a lost way of life.

The Face of Spain

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description

A Life of One's Own

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521297349
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Autobiography of the novelist which covers the years spent in Malta and ends with his departure from England in 1919 to live in Spain.

When Moors Ruled Spain

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1612309941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 14

Book Description
Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.

The Sinner's Guide

Author: Luis (de Granada)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description

The Literature of the Spanish People

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521043137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
A paperback of Gerald Brenan's account of Spanish literature from Roman times to the present, which has won praise from every quarter for its original and enthusiastic approach, its wide-ranging scholarship and elegant style. First published in paperback in 1976, this book remains a useful study of Spanish literary history.

The Spanish Labyrinth

Author: Gerald Brenan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1990, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.

The Moor's Last Stand

Author: Elizabeth Drayson
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782832769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end. It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery and tragedy. Basing her vivid account on original documents and sources, Elizabeth Drayson traces the origins and development of Islamic Spain. She describes the thirteenth-century founding of the Nasrid dynasty, the cultured and stable society it created, and the feuding which threatened it and had all but destroyed it by 1482, when Boabdil seized the throne. The new Sultan faced betrayals by his family, factions in the Alhambra palace, and ever more powerful onslaughts from the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. By stratagem, diplomacy, courage and strength of will Boabdil prolonged his reign for ten years, but he never had much chance of survival. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella, magnificently attired in Moorish costume, entered Granada and took possession of the city. Boabdil went into exile. The Christian reconquest of Spain, that has reverberated so powerfully down the centuries, was complete.