Read Cuentos de color de rosa in Spanishwith every sentence explained

Cuentos de color de rosa by Antonio de Trueba was first published in 1859. In Passage you read the full text in the original Spanish, marked beginner and filed under children and romance. It runs to about 95,800 words.

Green valleys, white farmhouses and stories told to the woman he loves.

After twenty years in Madrid, Antonio de Trueba writes for his young wife, Teresa, the tales of the place he never stopped missing: the Encartaciones of Biscay, a corner of the Basque Country of chestnut woods, walnut trees, church bells and hard-working farming families. Each story is told to her, and along the way she interrupts, objects and sheds a tear.

The tales are warm and simple, but not always rosy. In "The Stepmother", a farmer from Galdames promises his dying wife that no one will ever mistreat their three daughters; in "The Judas of the House", one of the author's saddest stories, a beautiful farmhouse on the banks of the river Cadagua hides a betrayal; and the book closes with "The Foundling", a little play set in a Basque village.

Trueba was the most popular Spanish storyteller of his day, and his clear, gentle prose makes this an ideal first collection of classic Spanish tales.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Spanish. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Spanish and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.