Spanish · Intermediate
Read Insolación y Morriña in Spanishwith every sentence explained
English title: Midsummer Madness and Homesickness
Emilia Pardo Bazán · 1889
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About the book
Insolación y Morriña by Emilia Pardo Bazán was first published in 1889. In Passage you read the full text in the original Spanish, marked intermediate and filed under romance. It runs to about 83,300 words.
One sunstroke at a Madrid fair. One girl sick for home. Two short novels about the dangers of love.
In Midsummer Madness, Asís Taboada, a young widowed marquise from Galicia, wakes up in Madrid with a pounding head and a guilty conscience. The day before, at the rowdy San Isidro fair, she let herself be swept off her feet by Diego Pacheco, a charming Andalusian with a doubtful reputation. Was it love, or just the sun? And what will Madrid society say?
In Homesickness, gentle Esclavitud Lagos leaves Galicia to serve in the Madrid home of Doña Aurora, a Galician widow, and her spoiled student son, Rogelio. Lonely and longing for home, she gives her whole heart to the household, with consequences no one foresees.
Emilia Pardo Bazán, the great lady of Spanish naturalism, pairs comedy and heartbreak in a volume that is one of the most downloaded Spanish books on Project Gutenberg.
- Author
- Emilia Pardo Bazán
- First published
- 1889
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Romance
- Length
- About 83,300 words
How it opens
LA primer señal por donde Asís Taboada se hizo cargo de que había salido de los limbos del sueño, fué un dolor como si la barrenasen las sienes de parte á parte con un barreno finísimo; luego le pareció que las raíces del pelo se convertían en millares de puntas de aguja y se le clavaban en el cráneo. También notó que la boca estaba pegajosita, amarga y seca; la lengua, hecha un pedazo de esparto; las mejillas ardían; latían desaforadamente las arterias, y el cuerpo declaraba á gritos que, si era ya hora muy razonable de saltar de la cama, no estaba él para valentías tales.
Reading Insolación y Morriña in Passage
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 intermediate: comfortable once everyday Spanish feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
