Patrañas; or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional
A Captivating Collection of Spanish Folklore and Legendary TalesBy Rachel Harriette Busk
Length8h 51m
About this audiobook
In "Patrañas; or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional," Rachel Harriette Busk intricately weaves a tapestry of Spanish folklore and oral traditions, capturing the essence of a vibrant cultural heritage. Through her meticulously curated selections, Busk presents a blend of captivating legends and charming anecdotes that reflect both the fantastical and moralistic dimensions of Spanish storytelling. Her prose is elegant yet accessible, offering readers a rich historical and cultural context, while employing a narrative style that honors the oral origins of these tales. The collection stands at a fascinating intersection of 19th-century literature and folk narrative, showcasing the influence of Romanticism and a growing European interest in folklore during that era. Rachel Harriette Busk, an intrepid researcher and folklorist, dedicated her life to preserving the narratives of various cultures. Her travels through Spain and interactions with local storytellers profoundly inspired her work on "Patrañas." Drawing from her background in philology and her belief in the significance of folklore as a mirror of societal values, Busk offers insights that resonate beyond simple entertainment, speaking to the universal nature of storytelling. "Patrañas" is a compelling read for anyone interested in folklore, cultural studies, or the literary history of Spain. Busk's work not only enriches our understanding of Spanish culture but also invites readers into a world where the lines between reality and imagination beautifully blur. This collection is a treasure trove for scholars and casual readers alike, eager to explore the depth and diversity of Spanish legacy.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length8 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION.
37“WHERE ONE CAN DINE, TWO CAN DINE1.”
2CARLO MAGNO AND THE GIANT.
38HORMESINDA.
3EL CONDE SOL.
39FILIAL LOVE BEFORE ALL.
4SIMPLE JOHNNY AND THE SPELL-BOUND PRINCESSES.
40RAGUEL; OR, THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO.
5TURIAN AND FLORETA.
41DON JAIME DE ARAGON.
Show all chaptersShow less
6THE BLOOD-STAIN OF THE ALCÁZAR OF SEVILLE.
42DON ALONSO DE AGUILAR.
7THE ADVENTURES OF DOÑA JOSEFA RAMIREZ Y MARMOLEJO.
43THE BLACK CHARGER OF HERNANDO.
8THE STEEPLE OF COVEÑA.
44THE INFANTE DON HENRIQUE AND THE LIONS.
9ANOTHER FAIR MAID OF ZARAGOZA.
45BLANCA THE HAUGHTY.
10JUANITA THE BALD; OR, A DAUGHTER’S LOVE.
46MOORISH REMNANTS.
11STARVING JOHN THE DOCTOR.
47I.
12RAMON THE DISCONTENTED.
48ISSY-BEN-ARAN.
13THE BALLAD-MAKER AND THE BOOT-MAKER.
49MOORISH REMNANTS.
14EL CLAVEL1.
50II.
15THE ILL-TEMPERED PRINCESS.
51MÓSTAFA ALVILÁ.
16THE HERMIT AND THE FIG-TREE.
52MOORISH REMNANTS.
17TOO CLEVER BY HALF.
53III.
18THE WIND’S STORY.
54THE EMIR IN SEARCH OF AN EYE.
19WHAT ANA SAW IN THE SUNBEAM.
55MOORISH REMNANTS.
20THE PEDRO JIMENEZ GRAPE.
56IV.
21ST. MARTIN IN SPAIN.
57YUSSUF’S FRIEND.
22I.
58MOORISH REMNANTS.
23ST. MICHAEL’S FEATHER.
59V.
24II.
60THE SULTANA’S PERFUMER-IN-CHIEF.
25“EYES TO THE BLIND.”
61EL MORO SANTON1.
26III.
62TRADITIONS DE ULTRAMAR.
27THE FLOATING CHEST.
63HERNAN CORTES IN SANCTUARY.
28IV.
64ARAUCANIA THE INDOMITABLE.
29THE WHALE OF THE MANZANÁRES.
65I.
30THE SUN OF WITTENBURG.
66ARAUCANIA.
31MERINO.
67II.
32KING VAMBA.
68TEGUALDA.
33DOÑA TEREA.
69ARAUCANIA.
34THE IRISH PRINCESS1.
70III.
35EL CONDE FERNAN GONZALEZ.
71FITON’S CAVE.
36THE FIRST TUNNY FISHING.
72MATANZAS.
More from Rachel Harriette Busk
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain416h 24m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë SistersCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen204h 24m$2 · $0.00
Louisa May Alcott: 16 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)Louisa May Alcott141h 35m$2 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m$15
The Complete Works of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde80h 38m$1 · $0.00
The Count of Monte Cristo + The Three Musketeers + The Man in the Iron Mask (3 Unabridged Classics)Alexandre Dumas100h 13m$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m$2 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m$29 · $0.00
Richard Wagamese SelectedRichard Wagamese3h 14m$15
Shōgun, Part OneJames Clavell24h 19m$35
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m$1 · $0.00
Pathways to LightPrakash Amte7h 6m$8
The Mysterious Island Trilogy: 2 TranslationsJules Verne42h 34m$2 · $0.00
The North American Indian (Illustrated Edition)Edward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge6h$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series)Leo Tolstoy213h 41m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (8 Novels: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë118h 9m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton421h 4m$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m$2 · $0.00
EssaysGeorge Orwell1h 44m$2 · $0.00
You may also like
Mother's Nursery TalesKatharine Pyle6h 27m$2 · $0.00
Europa's Fairy BookJoseph Jacobs6h 4m$2.30
More English Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs5h 9m$2.30
Legends and Romances of SpainLewis Spence12h 52m$2.30
Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary TalesVarious12h 39m$2 · $0.00
Classical Tales Better Than Ever (Parte 2)Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Tradición oral árabe, Hermanos Grimm, Anónimo2h 15m$12 · $0.00
Types of Children's LiteratureVarious17h 12m$2 · $0.00
Slavonic Fairy TalesJohn Theophilus Naaké6h 17m$2 · $0.00
Fairy Tales from Many LandsKatharine Pyle5h 47m$2 · $0.00
Hindu Tales from the SanskritVarious4h 58m$1 · $0.00
The Santa's Library: 450+ Christmas Novels, Tales, Carols & LegendsLouisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S. Morris, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, Vernon Lee, Guy De Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, William Francis Dawson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Christopher North, Susan Coolidge, Oliver Bell Bunce, Phillips Brooks, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary Austin, James S. Park, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, C.s. Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Tudor Jenks, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry Vaughan, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Meredith Nicholson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, James Selwin Tait, Booth Tarkington, Evaleen Stein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank Samuel Child, Samuel McChord Crothers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgianna M. Bishop, Sarah P. Doughty, John Punnett Peters, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Sidney, Nell Speed, Laura Elizabeth Richards, Arthur Conan Doyle, Willa Cather, Ralph Henry Barbour, Cyrus Townsend Brady, Mary Stewart Cutting, William Douglas O'Connor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ruth McEnery Stuart, S. Weir Mitchell, John Leighton, W. H. H. Murray, Alice Duer Miller, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving511h 11m$1.50 · $0.00
Puck of Pook's HillRudyard Kipling6h 17m$2.30
Pomo Bear DoctorsS. A. Barrett1h 56m$2 · $0.00
Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & LegendsMark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand444h 38m$2 · $0.00
Classics Retold – World's Greatest Tales Adapted for the YoungestHomer, John Bunyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Winston Stokes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Andrew Lang, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb34h 52m$2 · $0.00
The MabinogionLady Charlotte Guest10h 50m$2 · $0.00
The Great Audiobook Box of Adventure StoriesHans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jonathan Swift16h 37m$29 · $0.00
The Orange Fairy BookAndrew Lang10h 22m$2 · $0.00
Black Tales for White ChildrenNancy Yulee Stigand, C. H. Stigand3h 43m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of AvonleaLucy Maud Montgomery8h 48m$1 · $0.00