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Title: Doña Perfecta
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Release Date: April 28, 2005 [EBook #15725]
Language: English
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DOÑA PERFECTA
POR BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY A. R. MARSH
VOCABULARY BY STEVEN T. BYINGTON
=The Athenaeum Press= GINN AND COMPANY--PROPRIETORS--BOSTON--U.S.A.
PREFACE
This edition of one of the best known of modern Spanish novels has been prepared for the use of college classes in Spanish that have already mastered the elements of Spanish grammar, but have not yet had much practice in reading. The editor has found by actual experience that it is safe to undertake the story in three or four months from the time when the study of the language is begun, that is, in the second half of the first year's work in the subject. As the book is not a long one, it should be possible to read it entire before the close of the year. Indeed, with an earnest class, even less time than this wil