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The Spanish Reader: Cuentos de Grimm: Ten Tales from the Brothers Grimm (Interlinear Edition): Learn Spanish with Bilingual Interlinear Word-by-Word Translation (Spanish-English Reader) - Couverture souple

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

 
9798185421581: The Spanish Reader: Cuentos de Grimm: Ten Tales from the Brothers Grimm (Interlinear Edition): Learn Spanish with Bilingual Interlinear Word-by-Word Translation (Spanish-English Reader)
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ISBN 13 : 9798185421581
Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Ten Brothers Grimm tales in classic Spanish, including La Cenicienta, Ruiponche and El Rey de las Ranas, with a literal English gloss beneath every Spanish word and Otto Ubbelohde's engravings throughout.

Learn Spanish through stories you already know

The biggest obstacle to reading in a foreign language is stopping every line to look up vocabulary. The OpenCopy interlinear method removes that barrier entirely: a literal, word-by-word English gloss sits directly beneath the Spanish text, so you read smoothly, keep the thread of the story, and absorb vocabulary in its natural context. And because you already know how these tales end, your attention stays on the Spanish itself.

Un hombre rico tenía a su mujer muy enferma
a · man · rich · had · to · his · wife · very · sick
(the opening of La Cenicienta, glossed exactly as in the book)

A classic translation, gently modernised

The Spanish is the classic 19th-century translation by José Sánchez Biedma (Cuentos escogidos de los Hermanos Grimm, 1879), the version that carried these stories to generations of Spanish readers. The old spelling has been brought up to today's standards and the dialogue set as a modern Spanish book prints it; the wording and voice are the translator's own. The tales keep their sharp edges, and the endings are as the brothers told them.

The literal translation method

Ordinary bilingual books rearrange words so the English sounds natural, hiding how Spanish actually works. Our glosses do the opposite: they preserve the original Spanish word order and reach for English words that echo the Spanish wherever they can, so you see exactly how each sentence is built and the grammar starts to feel familiar rather than foreign.

Ubbelohde's classic engravings

The tales are accompanied by Otto Ubbelohde's engravings, from his 1907 to 1909 drawings for the complete Kinder- und Hausmärchen, the images that defined the Grimms for generations of readers.

The ten tales

  • La Cenicienta: Cinderella
  • Ruiponche: Rapunzel
  • Rosa-con-espinas: Sleeping Beauty
  • El Rey de las Ranas: The Frog King
  • Los Músicos de Brema: The Bremen Town Musicians
  • Tom Pouce: Tom Thumb
  • El Sastrecillo Valeroso: The Brave Little Tailor
  • Juan en la Prosperidad: Hans in Luck
  • La Liebre y el Erizo: The Hare and the Hedgehog
  • El Pescador y su Mujer: The Fisherman and His Wife

Beginner–intermediate (A2–B1) · 162 pages · Paperback and Kindle

Language study that feels like reading, not work.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798185421581
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Ubbelohde Otto
Nombre de pages
162
Éditeur
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