Spanish · Beginner
Read La tía Tula in Spanishwith every sentence explained
English title: Aunt Tula
Miguel de Unamuno · 1921
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About the book
La tía Tula by Miguel de Unamuno was first published in 1921. In Passage you read the full text in the original Spanish, marked beginner and filed under historical fiction and romance. It runs to about 30,800 words.
She refuses to be anyone's wife. She is determined to be a mother.
Gertrudis and her sister Rosa are orphans, raised by their gentle uncle, a priest, in a quiet Spanish provincial town. Rosa is the dazzling beauty; Gertrudis, whom everyone calls Tula, is the serious one with the steady, watchful eyes. When young Ramiro starts courting Rosa and then hesitates, it is Tula who takes matters in hand and pushes him firmly to the altar.
Soon the babies arrive, and the children cling to their stern, devoted aunt as much as to their mother. When misfortune strikes the young family, Tula gives her whole life to raising them. But Ramiro is still there, and she must defend the purity of the motherhood she has chosen against desire, gossip and her own heart.
Miguel de Unamuno's Aunt Tula (1921) is one of his most-read novels, the short, intense portrait of an unforgettable woman. Told largely in lively dialogue, it became a celebrated 1964 film by Miguel Picazo.
- Author
- Miguel de Unamuno
- First published
- 1921
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Historical Fiction, Romance
- Length
- About 30,800 words
How it opens
«Tenía uno (hermano) casi de mi edad, que era el que yo más quería, aunque a todos tenía gran amor y ellos a mí; juntábamonos entrambos a leer vidas de santos... Espantábanos mucho el decir en lo que leíamos que pena y gloria eran para siempre. Acaecíanos estar muchos ratos tratando desto, y gustábamos de decir muchas veces para siempre, siempre, siempre. En pronunciar esto mucho rato era el Señor servido, me quedase en esta niñez imprimido el camino de la verdad.
Reading La tía Tula 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 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.
