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Obras escogidas de G. A. Bécquer by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is a public-domain classic. In Passage you read the full text in the original Spanish, marked advanced and filed under horror.

Green eyes beneath a haunted spring, bells tolling on the Night of the Dead, and some of the best-loved love poems in Spanish.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer died in 1870 at thirty-four, leaving a small body of work that changed Spanish literature. This selection opens with his legends, dark Romantic tales of old Spain. In "Los ojos verdes" a young hunter falls for a woman who lives beneath the waters of a forest spring; in "El monte de las ánimas" his cousin's request sends a young nobleman up a haunted mountain on All Souls' Night; in "Maese Pérez el organista" an organ fills a Seville church with music on Christmas Eve that no living hand could play.

Then come his letters from the monastery of Veruela and, finally, the Rimas, seventy-six short poems of desire, heartbreak and longing that generations of readers know by heart.

Eerie, musical and deeply romantic, Selected Works of G. A. Bécquer is the perfect bridge between ghost story and poetry.

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 advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate Spanish book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.